HBO Home Box Office

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HBO (Home Box Office)

• Leader of
• The Premium Subscription Channels

No other network -- broadcast or cable -- has
ever crashed through the billion-dollar mark in
profits for a calendar year. Even NBC at its peak
a few years ago managed to hit only 500 million
in profits. (John Dempsey in Variety, 2004
on HBO reaching the billion dollar profit level)
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Main Premium Channels With Owners

• Showtime - Viacom (CBS)
• TMC - Viacom (CBS)
• HBO - Time Warner
• Cinemax - Time Warner
• Starz - Liberty Media
• Disney - Walt Disney Company

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A Closer Look At HBO

• Current and Past Original Programming for HBO

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A Closer Look at Entourage

• Just completed its 5th Season
• Opening Sequence
• Has been labeled a Dramedy
• Incorporates Actual Hollywood actors, directors
  and other executives
• It is a costly, well produced series
• Entourage Homepage

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Openings of Other HBO Shows

• Six Feet Under
• The Sopranos
• True Blood

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Showtimes Weeds

• Recently Completed its 4th Season
• Opening Sequence