NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) ”
HBO will kick off coverage of
Inauguration Week with an exclusive Sunday, January 18, telecast of the star-studded opening ceremony, two
days before the saturation coverage of President-elect Barack Obama’s inauguration begins in earnest.
In 1993,
HBO paid $1.
5 million to the
Presidential Inaugural Committee to televise Bill Clinton’s kickoff from the Lincoln Memorial, something that annoyed non-
HBO subscribers who weren’t able to
watch the concert by Bob Dylan and Diana Ross.
This time around,
HBO — which has been
HBO land s
rights to inaugural ceremony – Yahoo! News.
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