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It’s not TV it’s HBO — the book

Channels with Peter Kafka

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HBO - What Was It All About?

HBO was the first nationally distributed cable network. In many ways, when you look back at it, it's very reminiscent of Netflix deciding to make the jump into streaming. For people who were subscribing to HBO, which did not include my parents, what was the selling point? They were paying for movies, basically.

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