HBO CEO resigns...not about #metoo

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talked up the need for HBO to make more shows and make (even more) money. “

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Lol

RIP HBO

This has been in the works for months. I wouldn’t panic

The AT&T buyout was finalized two days ago so they were waiting for it to be final.

They are still staying on as consultants

The new CEO better fricking bring back Al Swearengen.

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HBO going the way of ESPN and abandoning its core audience for SJW shows like the fricking Barshop and any other gay shite Vice spews out every so often.

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Uhhh I don’t think you know who HBOs core audience is they’ve always been on that side of the isle

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Deadwood movie is coming sometime this spring, cocksucker

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For real??

This gives me the excites.

AT&T. Truly is the enemy of the people. Just by the way their telecommunications company
Operates. Essentially defrauds customers and conducts bait and switch marketing. They intentionally make it nearly impossible to solve customer problems effectively and efficiently. Their business model depends upon isolating customers from the company.

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HBO CEO Richard Plepler, the well-connected and equally well-respected TV executive who’s helped run the premium network since 2007 and greenlit Game of Thrones, is stepping down. In a letter to staffers late Thursday, Plepler described the decision as his own: “Hard as it is to think about leaving the company I love, and the people I love in it, it is the right time for me to do so,” he wrote. Still, Plepler’s resignation comes amid reports that former NBC and Showtime chief Robert Greenblatt is in line for a top job at HBO parent WarnerMedia, a position which would have made Greenblatt Plepler’s boss. As one industry veteran told Vulture hours before news of Plepler’s resignation hit, “I can’t see a scenario where Richard stays if he reports to Bob.” While there’s no official word yet that Greenblatt is, in fact, headed to WarnerMedia, it seems that even the possibility of a shake-up at WarnerMedia was enough to prompt Plepler to depart.

At the heart of today’s news is tension between Plepler and John Stankey, the CEO of HBO parent WarnerMedia. Stankey, a longtime telephone company executive, gained oversight of WarnerMedia (and thus HBO) when AT&T took control of the now-defunct Time Warner last year. Stankey and AT&T have made it clear they expect HBO to lead the charge in helping WarnerMedia build its own Netflix-style streaming offering, one in which mass amounts of programming are seen as key to driving growth — as opposed to the more curated approach which has served HBO for decades (and made it the crown jewel of WarnerMedia.) One top agent tells Vulture he believes today’s news became almost a foregone conclusion as long ago as last summer, when Stankey appeared at a town hall with HBO employees and talked up the need for HBO to make more shows and make (even more) money. “The first shoe came down last summer during the town hall,” the agent says. “The other shoe just dropped. This was inevitable.”

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Fun Fact... The Net Neutrality fiasco could mean ATT will leverage Netflix out of some market share in favor of ATT's home newly defined "HBOflix"

Don't think it could happen? Just ask Netscape what happens when a monopolist decides it wants to play in your sandbox

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RIP HBO

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HBO isnt even safe from the bullshite.