The curtain came down on an era for HBO Wednesday night as it hosted a massive final season premiere event for Game of Thrones. The screening of the first of the show’s last six episodes was a spectacle unto itself. Radio City Music Hall was packed with industryites and celebrities who are far removed from the Seven Kingdoms.
HBO’s president of global distribution, Bernadette Aulestia, has announced her resignation, according to an internal memo obtained by CNBC. Her resignation follows that of HBO CEO Richard Pleper, who stepped down last month after realizing he would no longer have the autonomy to run the premium channel, which is part of Warner Media. Aulestia oversaw both of the company’s streaming services, HBO Now and HBO Go.
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From Sex and the City to Game of Thrones, HBO served up several hits under its chief executive, Richard Plepler, who recently stepped down.
Richard Plepler, the gregarious chief executive of HBO and one of the most influential executives in entertainment, abruptly stepped down on Thursday. His decision came eight months after AT&T acquired Time Warner, the network’s corporate home, in an $85.4 billion deal. Plepler found he had less autonomy after the merger, according to two people familiar with his thinking.
Apple is targeting April to debut a new streaming product that will include original content free for Apple device owners and a platform to subscribe to other digital media services. HBO hasn’t signed on to the service due to a disagreement over revenue sharing with Apple. Netflix and Hulu aren’t expected to be a part of the “Channels” service.
David Levine, HBO’s EVP and Co-Head of Drama, is leaving the premium cable network after a decade to return to producing. Fellow EVP and Co-Head of Drama Francesca Orsi will become solo head of the department.
NEW YORK (AP) — “Game of Thrones” fans, get ready. HBO announced Sunday night that the eighth and final season will begin on April 14. In a one minute and […]
HBO has officially kicked off marketing for the eighth and final season of the fantasy epic, the biggest hit in its history.
Dish Network CEO Charlie Ergen, long known for his free-spoken, sharp-elbowed management style, described the company’s carriage dispute with HBO as the result of “purely an anti-competitive play” by the premium network’s new parent, AT&T.
AT&T Inc’s WarnerMedia has accused the U.S. Department of Justice of “collaborating” with Dish Network in a high profile dispute over carrying HBO and Cinemax.
HBO has gone dark on the Dish Network amid a standoff over carriage agreements, the first time it has been off air on one of its major distributors in the company’s 40-year history.
In the wake of #MeToo, the network hired an intimacy coordinator to make the filming of sex scenes on The Deuce safe for all. Now, it’s doing it for every show and movie it produces.
AT&T Inc.’s boss Randall Stephenson said the company may shift resources to HBO from other parts of its newly acquired Time Warner business to step up programming investments and use data on its customers’ tastes and habits to inform its content bets, part of a plan to compete with streaming giant Netflix.
AT&T owns a significant SVOD product in HBO Now, with its $15-per-month price point and more than 5 million subscribers. But the company may be looking at bundling it with other direct-to-consumer products.
Both premium cable networks HBO and Cinemax have phased out content including Taxicab Confessions, Real Sex and Cathouse as well as other adult movies containing explicit content from its linear and on-demand platforms.The programming change has been in the works for the past year as the two look for other latenight programming.
The telecom giant, which just acquired Time Warner, is seeking to drastically change the premium cable channel in order to compete with the likes of Netflix.
Change is coming to HBO, now that it is part of the AT&T corporate family. That much was clear to the 150 employees who attended a recent town hall meeting at the network’s headquarters in Midtown Manhattan. The main speaker was John Stankey, a longtime AT&T executive who now oversees HBO in his new role as chief executive of WarnerMedia. “It’s going to be a tough year,” Stankey said. “It’s going to be a lot of work to alter and change direction a little bit.”
The heads of Showtime, TNT and Fox Television Group, together with the president of HBO programming, address the forces transforming the TV business at the INTV conference in Jerusalem.
MOUNDSVILLE, W.Va. (AP) — A West Virginia judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought by coal company Murray Energy against HBO host John Oliver. A segment of Oliver’s Sunday show “Last Week Tonight” […]
For HBO’s Tryneski, It’s All About The New
Diane Tryneski, HBO’s tech EVP and chief digital officer, has worked for broadcasting and cable networks since 1982 and has been guided by constantly seeking to move her state of the art forward. Right now, that means building out HBO’s IP infrastructure.
