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'''The Home Box Office Corporation''' (HBO) is a 24-hour TV network that manages two channels, HBO and [[Cinemax]]. Subscribers pay a monthly free for this service available in the United States via cable, C-band satellite, direct broadcast satellite (DBS) and microwave (MMDS). HBO is owned by the [[Time Warner]] Entertainment Company.[http://www.homeboxoffice.com/cmp/about_hbo.shtml]
HBO programs include theatrical motion pictures as well as exclusive programming, such as original movies, series, comedy, documentaries and other educational materials, and sporting events. [http://www.homeboxoffice.com/cmp/about_hbo.shtml]
== Executives ==
*[[Bill Nelson]]: chairman and chief executive
*[[Richard Plepler]], [[Eric Kessler]] and [[Hal Akselrad]], co-presidents
''As of 2007''{{cite news | author = Bill Carter | url = http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/05/business/media/05cnd-hbo.html | title = HBO Names 4 New Top Corporate Officers | publisher = New York Times | date = June 5, 2007}}
== Background and History ==
In 1972 [[FCC]] (The Federal Communications Commission]] (FCC) announced its “open sky policy” for satellites—that is, private corporations could launch broadcasting satellites into space. As a result the following decade were an era of deregulation of the television broadcast industry, which allowed cable networks, including pay-cable networks like HBO, to launch.<ref>{{cite news | author = Douglas Davis | title = The Challenge of New Media: Two Viewpoints | publisher = Art Journal Published by: College Art Association | date = Vol. 42, No. 1}}</ref>
HBO was launched in November of 1972[http://www.homeboxoffice.com/cmp/about_hbo.shtml] and began as a [[Time, Inc.]] subsidiary and cable television channel used to rent videos via satellite. <ref>{{cite news | author = Jay Boyer | title = Is Hollywood Being Put Out of Business? | publisher = Social Text, Duke University Press, pp. 118-127 | date = No. 11 Winter, 1984-1985 }}</ref>
* [[Hollywood]]
* [[Cinemax]]
* [[FCC]]
===References===
===External articles===
[[Category:Corporations]] [[Category:Media]]{{stub}}
