BANFF, AB – American pay-TV service HBO will be honoured as the Company of Distinction at the 2016 Banff World Media Festival.
The Company of Distinction program is an opportunity for the Festival to pay homage to a prestigious company demonstrating significant leadership in the world of screen-based entertainment. HBO’s executives, producers and talent will be featured throughout the four-day event, and chairman and CEO Richard Plepler will deliver the Company of Distinction keynote.
HBO is the innovative, premium television programming subsidiary of Time Warner Inc. providing two television services, HBO and Cinemax, to approximately 122 million subscribers globally. HBO also launched in the U.S. this year the standalone streaming service HBO NOW for broadband-only consumers wanting access to HBO programming. HBO received 43 Primetime Emmy Awards earlier this month, the most of any network for the 14th year in a row, and the most in HBO history.
In Canada, all episodes and seasons of HBO’s on-air titles are available on HBO Canada, a pay-TV network which is a joint venture between Bell Media and Corus Entertainment. In addition, HBO’s complete off-air catalogue is available on Bell Media’s video-streaming platform CraveTV.
The 37th annual Banff World Media Festival will take place June 12-15, 2016 at the Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel in Banff, AB.
