NEW YORK, July 28, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Home Box
Office and Verizon announced today a broad agreement that includes
the right for Verizon to distribute HBO NOWSM, HBO's
internet-only service, to Verizon digital platforms, including to
more than 100 million Verizon Wireless customers and other
consumers with handsets and/or tablets. HBO NOW is
immediately available to all Verizon standalone broadband
customers, including FiOS and high-speed internet customers, for a
30-day free trial. HBO content will also be coming soon to
Verizon's upcoming mobile video platform.
HBO NOW provides audiences with instant access to all of
HBO—addictive series, unforgettable movies, thought-provoking
documentaries, thrilling sports programs and entertaining comedy
and music specials.
"Our customers want choice in accessing premium content when and
where they desire, on a variety of devices," said Ben Grad, executive director of content strategy
and acquisition for Verizon. "HBO NOW brings compelling content and
choice to Verizon broadband customers today – and exciting
possibilities for HBO content within Verizon's pending mobile video
service."
"This agreement with Verizon represents the commitment our
companies share to respond to changing consumer behavior through
innovation, bringing audiences the best in entertainment the
way they want it," said Jeff
Dallesandro, Senior Vice President, Worldwide Digital
Distribution and Business Development, HBO. "We're excited
to evolve our partnership with Verizon and bring HBO
programming to a new generation of broadband-only customers."
Verizon FiOS Internet and HSI customers can begin a 30-day
introductory free trial of HBO NOW by signing up through Verizon at
www.verizon.com/hbonow. After signing up, Verizon customers can
access the service by downloading the HBO NOW app on their Android
phone or tablet, Amazon Fire Tablet, iPhone, iPad or Apple TV and
selecting "Verizon" from the drop down menu of providers. Upon
initial registration, customers sign in to watch their favorite HBO
programming on their mobile device or on their computer at
HBONOW.com.
HBO NOW is currently available through Verizon to non-FiOS TV
customers for a monthly subscription of $14.99 following the introductory free
offer. FiOS TV customers can continue to purchase HBO, which
includes access to the award-winning HBO GO app and access to HBO
content on an anywhere, anytime basis on FIOS Mobile, through
existing sales channels, including by using their FiOS TV remote
control.
HBO NOW subscribers can catch HBO's amazing line up of
envelope-pushing summer series including True
Detective®, BallersSM and The
BrinkSM. See your shows, your movies, your
way, on HBO NOW, including the recent seasons of Game of
Thrones®, Silicon
Valley®, Veep® and Last Week
Tonight With John OliverSM as well as other current
uncensored programming like Girls®, The
Leftovers®, The Jinx and Going Clear.
HBO NOW also features every episode of every season of HBO classics
worth seeing again like The Sopranos®, Sex and
the City®, True Blood®, The
Wire® and Deadwood®.
In addition, HBO NOW subscribers have instant access to the most
top box office, must-see films like Gone Girl, Horrible Bosses
2, X-MEN: Days of Future Past, The Maze Runner, Get On
Up and coming soon—Birdman, The Hobbit: The Battle of the
Five Armies, The Theory of Everything and Dumb and Dumber
To. Customers can learn more at Order.HBONOW.com.
Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE, Nasdaq: VZ), headquartered in
New York, is a global leader in
delivering the promise of the digital world. Verizon Wireless
operates America's most reliable wireless network, with 109.5
million retail connections nationwide. Verizon also provides
converged communications, information and entertainment services
over America's most advanced fiber-optic network, and delivers
integrated business solutions to customers worldwide. A Fortune 15
company with more than $127 billion
in 2014 revenues, Verizon employs a diverse workforce of 178,500.
For more information, visit
www.verizon.com/news/.
Home Box Office, Inc. is the premium television programming
subsidiary of Time Warner Inc. and the world's most successful pay
TV service, providing the two television services –
HBO® and Cinemax® – to
approximately 122 million subscribers worldwide. The services
offer the popular subscription video-on-demand products HBO On
Demand® and Cinemax On Demand®, as well
as HBO GO® and MAX GO®, HD feeds
and multiplex channels. HBO NOWSM, the network's
internet only premium streaming service, provides audiences with
instant access to HBO's acclaimed programming in the U.S.
Internationally, HBO branded television networks, along with the
subscription video-on-demand products HBO On Demand and HBO
GO, bring HBO services to over 60 countries. HBO and Cinemax
programming is sold into over 150 countries worldwide.
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