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J. Richard Munro Dies: CEO Who Led The Creation Of Time Warner & HBO Was 93
J. Richard Munro, the former chairman and CEO of Time Inc. who led the merger with Warner Communications and helped create HBO, died August 11 at 93.
J. Richard Munro, the former chairman and CEO of Time Inc. who led the storied publisher’s 1989 merger with Warner Communications and was a driving force in the early success of HBO, has died. In the go-go M&A environment of the late ’80s, it took Munro and his team — which included future Time Warner CEO Gerald Levin — two years to find the right partner. Key to the fledgling network’s success was the pioneering step of providing HBO’s pay-for-view content to cable companies by satellite, replacing microwave and telephone line delivery.
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