A bit of history about the company: In 1965 Charles Dolan, who had already done pioneering work in the commercial use of cables, won a franchise to build a cable system in Lower Manhattan, New York. The new system, which Dolan called \u00ab\u00a0Sterling Manhattan Cable\u00a0\u00bb, became the first urban underground cable system in the United States of America. Rather than stringing cable on telephone poles or using microwave antennas to receive the signals, Sterling laid underground cable beneath the streets of Manhattan because the multitude of tall buildings blocked television signals. In the same year Time Life, Inc. purchased 20 percent of Dolan’s company.<\/p>\n
In 1973 Time Inc. bought out HBO. When Time merged with Warner Communications in 1989, HBO became part of Time Warner, which as of 2009 continues as its parent company.<\/p>\n
On September 30, 1975, HBO became the first TV network to continuously deliver signals via satellite. The network broadcast only nine hours a day for its first nine years on air, from 3PM to midnight ET. In September 1981, HBO began broadcasting a 24-hour schedule on weekends, until midnight ET on Sunday nights. On December 28, 1981, HBO expanded its programming schedule to 24 hours a day, seven days per week.<\/p>\n
In 1991, HBO became one of the first premium services to offer multiplexing to cable customers. \u00a0In 1993 HBO became the world’s first digitally transmitted television service. HBO.com, subsequently well-known for its online web shows, launched in 1995. In 1999, HBO became the first national cable-TV network to broadcast a high-definition version of its channel. In July 2001, HBO launched the first premium subscription video-on-demand enhancement in the United States of America, called HBO on Demand, to Time Warner Cable subscribers in Columbia, South Carolina.<\/p>\n
Thank you HBO for the confidence you have placed\u00a0 in our products!<\/p>\n
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