To stay relevant to television viewers, cable channel operators have started spending millions of dollars vieweg create hit shows and programming. Time Warner operates a handful of leading channels and states that Home Box Office, or HBO for short, is «the nation’s most widely distributed multi-channel premium pay television service. That is a doo impressive figure, but creating the content is pretty expensive. Time Warner doesn’t break out the details of its network financials individually, but the company does lay out how it makes money through its programming. Subscription fees accounted for more than half of the total. This includes payments that cable providers, such as Cox Cable and Comcast, make to Timer Warner for the right to carry its channels. HBO is unique in that the end cable subscriber usually makes a decision to pay extra on the cable bill for the right to have access to the channel. There are also advertising revenue opportunities. HBO is again viiewer ...