Home Box Office, Inc.

Home Box Office, Inc.
	Headquarters of HBO at 30 Hudson Yards, New York City
Trade name	HBO Inc.
Company type	Subsidiary
Industry	Entertainment
Predecessor	Sterling Communications; (1961–1973)
Founded	February 28, 1973
Founder	Charles Dolan
Headquarters	30 Hudson Yards, New York City, U.S.
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Casey Bloys (president/Head of Programming); Elana Loewenthal (CMO);
Products	Pay television; Television production;
Brands	HBO; Cinemax; Magnolia Network;
Revenue	US$5.890 billion (2016)
Operating income	US$1.928 billion (2016)
Parent	Warner Bros. Discovery
Divisions	HBO Films; HBO Animation; HBO Enterprises; HBO Entertainment;
Subsidiaries	HBO Europe; HBO Asia;
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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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