HBO Is Not TV, It's HBO

In 19 75, h b o is ready to go national. The phone company demands 25 million dollars in trans tion fees to let h b o grow beyond new york and Pennsylvania. H b o executives are frustrated so they gamble on doing it themselves. By 19 80, h b O has more than a million subscribers nation wide. In 19 97, bucas is a 25 year old mba looking to mint money at a new york investment bank. Bucas sees the future in those cable lines like charles dolan back in the sixties. And he signs up that very night.