Ratings for most HBO shows are relatively low and shows like Game of Thrones cost a lot to make. That said, HBO still turns a tidy profit. Find out how.

Six years later, when he came up with the idea for Home Box Office, better known as HBO, cable was still seen as a way to solve reception problems in rural communities, rather than as a promising ...

The Green Channel was renamed HBO before launch ... let’s call it The Home Box [a slang term for the box that delivered broadcast signals to cable homes],’” Dolan recalled.

"Sometimes a Great Notion" was the first movie shown on HBO, then known as Home Box Office Inc., the premium cable service that would change television forever. It was the brainchild of Charles Dolan.

Charles F. Dolan, who founded some of the most prominent U.S. media companies including Home Box Office Inc. and Cablevision Systems Corp., has died at age 98, according to a news report. A statement ...