Home Box Office, Inc.

This article is about the Warner Bros. Discovery subsidiary. For the namesake pay television channel, see HBO.
Home Box Office, Inc.
HBO Inc.
Company typeSubsidiary
IndustryEntertainment
PredecessorSterling Communications
(1961–1973)
FoundedFebruary 28, 1973; 51 years ago (1973-02-28)[1]
FounderCharles Dolan
Headquarters30 Hudson Yards, New York City[2],
U.S.
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
  • Casey Bloys (president/Head of Programming)
  • Elana Loewenthal (CMO)
Products
Brands
RevenueIncrease US$5.890 billion (2016)
Increase US$1.928 billion (2016)
ParentWarner Bros. Discovery
Divisions
Subsidiaries
Footnotes / references
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Home Box Office, Inc. (HBO) is an American multinational media and entertainment company operating as a unit of Warner Bros. Discovery. Founded by Charles Dolan and based out of WarnerMedia's former corporate headquarters at the 30 Hudson Yards complex in the West Side of Manhattan, its main properties include its namesake pay television network Home Box Office (HBO), sister service Cinemax, HBO Films, and the international HBO Go streaming service. (A secondary HBO-branded service, Max, is operated under sister subsidiary Warner Bros. Discovery Global Streaming and Interactive Entertainment, which shares principal management with Home Box Office, Inc.) It has also licensed or maintained ownership interests in international versions of HBO and Cinemax, most of which are managed by Home Box Office, Inc. through sister division Warner Bros. Discovery International.

The company has achieved several pioneering innovations in the cable television industry, including its satellite uplink of HBO as the first television network in the world to transmit through that technology, and the development of original programming for pay television.

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  3. ^ Lauren Feiner (March 4, 2019). "Layoffs expected as WarnerMedia reorganizes its leadership team after AT&T acquisition". CNBC. NBCUniversal News Group. Archived from the original on March 4, 2019. Retrieved May 21, 2019.
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  5. ^ "Time Warner Inc. Reports Fourth-Quarter and Full-Year 2016 Results". Time Warner. February 8, 2017. Archived from the original on June 9, 2019. Retrieved November 8, 2017 – via Business Wire.