Cinemax
| Cinemax | |
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| Launched | August 1, 1980 |
| Owned by |
Home Box Office, Inc. (Division of Time Warner) |
| Picture format |
1080i (HDTV) (HD feeds downgraded to letterboxed 480i for SDTV sets) |
| Slogan | Follow Us On Cinemax |
| Country | United States |
| Language |
English Spanish (Cinemáx only and via SAP audio track on primary Cinemax channel and all other multiplex channels; some films may be broadcast in their native language and subtitled into English) |
| Broadcast area | Nationwide |
| Headquarters | New York City, New York |
| Sister channel(s) | HBO |
| Timeshift service | Cinemax East, Cinemax West, MoreMax East, MoreMax West, ActionMax East, ActionMax West, ThrillerMax East, ThrillerMax West, MovieMax East, MovieMax West, 5StarMax East, 5StarMax West, OuterMax East, OuterMax West |
| Website | www |
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Availability
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| Satellite | |
| DirecTV | 515 Cinemax (east; SD/HD) 516 Cinemax (west; SD/HD) 517 MoreMax (SD/HD) 519 ActionMax (HD) 520 5StarMax (HD) 521 MovieMax (HD) 522 ThrillerMax (HD) 523 Cinemáx (HD) 1515 Cinemax On Demand |
| Dish Network | 310 Cinemax (east; SD/HD) 311 Cinemax (west; SD/HD) 312 MoreMax (SD) 313 ActionMax (SD/HD) 314 5StarMax (SD/HD) 315 Cinemáx (SD) |
| Cable | |
| Available on all U.S. cable systems | Consult your local cable provider or program listings source for channel availability |
| IPTV | |
| Verizon FIOS | 420 Cinemax (east) 421 Cinemax (west) 422 MoreMax (east) 423 MoreMax (west) 424 ActionMax (east) 425 ActionMax (west) 426 ThrillerMax (east) 427 ThrillerMax (west) 428 MovieMax 429 Cinemáx 430 5StarMax 431 OuterMax (HD available) |
| AT&T U-verse | 832–846 (SD) 1832–1846 (HD) |
| Streaming media | |
| Max Go |
www (U.S. cable internet subscribers only; requires login from pay television provider to access content) |
| PlayStation Vue | Internet Protocol television |
| Sling TV | Internet Protocol television |
Cinemax (sometimes abbreviated as Max) is an American pay cable and satellite television network that is owned by the Home Box Office Inc. operating subsidiary of Time Warner. Cinemax primarily broadcasts theatrically released feature films, along with original series, softcore pornographic series and films, documentaries and special behind-the-scenes features.
As of July 2015, Cinemax's programming is available to approximately 21.325 million television households (18.3% of cable, satellite and telco customers) in the United States (20.785 million subscribers or 17.9% of all households with pay television service receive at least Cinemax's primary channel).
Cinemax launched on August 1, 1980 as HBO's answer to The Movie Channel (which at the time, was owned by Warner-Amex Satellite Entertainment, a joint venture between Time Warner predecessor Warner Communications and American Express; TMC is now owned by the Showtime Networks subsidiary of CBS Corporation – previously under Viacom from 1983 to 2005). Cinemax was originally owned by Time-Life Inc., which later merged with Warner Communications in 1989 to form the present-day Time Warner.
Unlike HBO – and most cable and broadcast channels already on the air at the time of its launch – Cinemax had broadcast a 24-hour-a-day schedule from its sign-on (HBO ran only nine hours of programming a day from 3:00 p.m. to midnight Eastern Time until September 1981, when it adopted a 24-hour weekend schedule that ran until midnight Eastern Time on Sunday nights; it implemented the round-the-clock schedule on weekdays as well on December 28 of that year). On-air spokesman Robert Culp told viewers that Cinemax would be about movies, and nothing but movies. At the time, HBO featured a wider range of programming, including some entertainment news interstitials, documentaries, children's programming, sporting events and television specials (in the form of Broadway plays, stand-up comedy acts and concerts). Movie classics were a mainstay of Cinemax at its birth, presented "all uncut and commercial-free" as Culp said on-air. A heavy schedule of films from the 1950s to the 1970s made up most of the channel's program schedule.
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