Michael Fuchs, who was HBO's CEO in the early 1980s, was both innovative and famously argumentative with producers or with the press. I never got past the five minute mark in my conversations with Fuchs without a dispute flaring – I even kept a chart on the timing of our clashes. Fuchs didn't trust reporters who wrote…

David Levy, who is leaving his post as president of Turner after a nearly 33-year run at the company, sent a farewell memo this morning that brims with the executive’s trademark sales-and-sports brio.

He recalled joining the company in 1986 as a 24-year-old account executive, savoring Ted Turner’s occasional New York o…

The other shoe has dropped at WarnerMedia, with word emerging that Turner chief David Levy will exit. The news landed on the same day that HBO chief Richard Plepler also announced his exit.

The two longtime executives have both been squeezed as the AT&T-owned company reconfigures its executive suite and refines its…

The Court of Appeals’ today rejected Department of Justice’s attempt to stop AT&T acquiring Time Warner, paving the way for AT&T to accelerate the implementation of its plans for WarnerMedia. The company already announced an upcoming streaming platform, which will include HBO Now. I hear WarnerMedia CEO John Stankey…

HBO chief Richard Plepler issued a firm response to Charlie Ergen, the CEO of Dish Network who held forth at length during Dish’s third-quarter earnings call about the current impasse with the AT&T-owned premium network.

Ergen described the blackout last week of HBO, the first in the network’s 46-year history, as “pure…

HBO named Jessica Holscott executive vice president and chief financial officer, succeeding Joe Tarulli, who is retiring at the end of the year.

"I have worked very closely with Jessica over the last two years, first in her role as Time Warner head of investor relations, and most recently in her role as the AT&T/Time W…

AT&T executive-turned-head of Warner Media John Stankey spoke at a town hall in New York and addressed the changes to come for HBO after the  $85.4 billion merger between AT&T and Time Warner.

During the town hall, which also included HBO chief executive Richard Plepler, Stankey said that they won’t interfere too much…

Living up to its old swaggering slogan, “It’s not TV, It’s HBO,” the premium cable network drafted some of its biggest stars to welcome the new boss.

Before WarnerMedia CEO John Stankey took the stage for an hour-long town hall meeting in Manhattan, HBO aired a funny video featuring Real Time’s Bill Maher, Veep’s Tony…

WarnerMedia CEO John Stankey will seek to allay concerns this week as he holds a series of town hall meetings with AT&T’s new television and film units, now that the long-delayed acquisition of Time Warner has closed and the hard work of integrating the entertainment business within the telecommunications giant’s…

HBO is bringing its international original series to the U.S. for the first time — shows which, at home, are bigger than Game of Thrones. Beginning in December, two programs from each of the regional outposts HBO Europe, Latin America and Asia will be made available on streaming services HBO Go, HBO Now and HBO on…

Back in July, HBO announced the new drama series Confederate from Game of Thrones creators David Benioff and DB Weiss – and a huge backlash immediately followed. Speaking at the Vanity Fair summit on Tuesday, HBO CEO Richard Plepler said of the press release announcement, “We screwed up in an important way.”

With Niche…