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HBO (Home Box Office) is the premium television programming subsidiary of
Time Warner. It offers two 24-hour pay television services - HBO and
Cinemax - to over 40 million U.S. subscribers. The services include the
subscription video on demand products, HBO On Demand and Cinemax On Demand,
as well as multiplex channels and HD feeds. Internationally the
subscription video on demand products HBO On Demand and HBO Mobile, along
with HBO branded joint ventures, bring HBO services to over 50 countries.
HBO programming is sold into over 150 countries
worldwide.http://www.timewarner.com/corp/businesses/detail/hbo/index.html
History In 1965, cable pioneer Charles Dolan won the franchise to build a
cable system in lower Manhattan. The new system, called Sterling Manhattan
Cable by Mr. Dolan, was the nation's first urban underground cable system.
Rather than stringing cable on telephone poles and using microwave antennas
to recei
