HBO is cementing its reputation as a trail-blazer with a new batch of hit shows and, more recently, a hugely popular mobile offering. But the company is determined to remain a traditionalist when it comes to its relation with tv distributors.

Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) siblings HBO and Sports Illustrated magazine are collaborating a on a multi-part documentary series entitled Sport in America: Our Defining Stories, that’s set to air sometime in 2013. But why wait for that moment? The two have launched an online video site that for SportInAmerica, that…

HBO’s best production this year may not be a program. I had a few doubts at times with the browser version but HBO Go as an app is everything Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) CEO Jeff Bewkes promised with TV Everywhere and then some. Premium programming that might start to look…

Yet more reason for competitive tension between Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) and HBO comes from the fourth-quarter pay-TV subscriber numbers out Friday from SNL Kagan, which shows a fourth consecutive quarter of decline for HBO.

Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) will attempt to outbid HBO for streaming rights to the movies the pay-TV giant gets from its current output deal with Warner Bros. (NYSE: TWX) the streaming service’s chief content officer, Ted Sarandos. “We will be an aggressive bidder for that programming,” he said in a Q&A…

Verizon FiOS TV customers that subscribe to Cinemax now have access to MaxGo.com, the “TV Everywhere” portal for HBO’s sister channel with more than 700 hours of programming per month. But don’t worry, mom and dad, parental controls are included to limit access to the adult-oriented “Max After Dark” series.…

Pleased with early “TV Everywhere” returns from its relationships with Verizon FiOS and Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA), HBO is moving toward deals with other distributors. Eric Kessler, co-president of HBO, told an audience gathered at Multichannel News/B&C’s “TV Everywhere & Anywhere” breakfast event here March 24, that the premium programmer is…

Two years after HBO started a small trial of HBO Broadband, the Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) premium net is going live with HBO GO on Verizon FiOS. Through HBOGo.com, Verizon FiOS subscribers who also get HBO (the companies won’t release that number) will be able to watch 600-plus hours of…

Time Warner Cable (NYSE: TWC) is on the verge of expanding its online video efforts from a small-scale HBO trial to a small-scale national test of its version of TV Everywhere with some of the same networks involved in Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) On Demand. The WSJ reports that the plans…

Add HBO and Cinemax to the list of networks taking part in the Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) Online On Demand national trial slated to start later this month. The Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) premium networks will start by providing up to 750 hours of programming a month to trial participants who…

HBO has launched a new, video-heavy microsite that boasts hundreds of clips from shows like Entourage, Curb Your Enthusiasm and stand-up comedy specials. Called ComedyFetish.com, the site is designed to serve as a funnel to get viewers to buy their favorite series’ on DVD through BarnesandNoble.com (or as iTunes episodes).…

HBO keeps most of its online video content under lock and key. Other than snippets (and the occasional full episode) on its YouTube channel or HBO.com, most people that want to legally watch its shows on-the-go have one real option: pay for episodes on iTunes. But HBO can lower that…

It’s been about a month since HBO spun off HBOlab, its digital content studio, to L.A.-based entertainment company Break Media. Break got the HBOlab team—including cable industry vet Danila Koverman—and its roster of shows as part of the deal. I asked Koverman, who now serves as the director of development…

Looks like HBO is done experimenting with online video—at least for now. The cable TV giant has sold its “experimental” online video unit HBOlab to L.A.-based Break Media. Break CEO Keith Richman confirmed that the sale included all of studio’s assets, including offshoot Runawaybox, though he declined to disclose financial…

FunnyOrDie, the company with a network of online content site and backed by Will Ferrell and Sequoia Capital, has raised a new round of $3 million from one undisclosed investor, according to an SEC filing. No word on whether this is a new tranche, or part of the $15 million…

Move over ABC. Harpo Films, the original film division of Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Productions, has found an edgier, less commercially-cluttered platform for its movies: HBO. The AP says Harpo Films and HBO have brokered a three-year deal to make movies, documentaries and TV series. Financial terms were not disclosed, but…

NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) is looking at launching a standalone site for Saturday Night Live, high on its success with SNL clips on Hulu and NBC.com in this election season, reports B&C. Though the plans are still in early stage, the site could include SNL’s current sketches library, as well…

You’re reading it here first: Sean Atkins, who was the SVP of Digital Media at HBO, is leaving the company, we have learned and confirmed. Atkins had been at HBO for only a year, and was previously the head of Development and Programming at Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO). Atkins was based…

HBO, which couldn’t make its own comedy site work, is taking a small stake in Will Ferrell’s comedy company FunnyorDie.com. The terms were not disclosed, but the Variety story says the stake is less than 10 percent. As part of the deal, the cable company owned by Time Warner (NYSE:…