HBO Canada is a Canadian television channel primarily devoted to original programming sourced from the HBO subscription service in the United States. HBO Canada is not available as a standalone channel, but as one multiplex channel within two regional premium television services: The Movie Network (TMN), which is available in Eastern Canada, and Movie Central, which is offered in Western and Northern Canada.
As different multiplex channels of a single pay service cannot have separate sets of owners, each service's parent company (Astral Media for TMN, Corus Entertainment for Movie Central) officially retains full ownership of the HBO Canada channel in their respective territories. However, in practice the channel is jointly managed by both companies, and thus the HBO Canada schedule is common to both services, except that TMN's feed of the channel operates on Eastern Time while Movie Central feeds the same programming two hours later, i.e. on Mountain Time. HBO's parent company Time Warner is not a shareholder, and only licenses the name to Astral and Corus.
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“What makes the United States government, on the whole, more tolerable—I mean for us lucky white men—is the fact that there is so much less of government with us.... But in Canada you are reminded of the government every day. It parades itself before you. It is not content to be the servant, but will be the master; and every day it goes out to the Plains of Abraham or to the Champs de Mars and exhibits itself and toots.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)