A little surprise in the Ubuntu motd

Posted Jul 13, 2017 15:49 UTC (Thu) by farnz (subscriber, #17727)
In reply to: A little surprise in the Ubuntu motd by jschrod
Parent article: A little surprise in the Ubuntu motd

Round my neck of the woods, where US TV content is often bought in by local firms, those are usually known as Sky shows, not HBO shows. If you don't watch any of them, and therefore haven't seen the HBO branding in the credits, you could well not realise that they're not Sky productions.

I'm only aware of HBO because I used to work in the broadcasting industry; had HBO never been a potential customer of my employer, I'd probably not be aware of their existence.

A little surprise in the Ubuntu motd

Posted Jul 20, 2017 0:03 UTC (Thu) by k8to (guest, #15413) [Link] (1 responses)

HBO was far far more relevant in the early days of cable TV, when it was "How you watched movies that were not 8+ years old at home". Lately, it's pretty ignorable.

A little surprise in the Ubuntu motd

Posted Jul 20, 2017 8:45 UTC (Thu) by farnz (subscriber, #17727) [Link]

Even back then, HBO was a non-entity over here - the equivalent was Sky Movies. To recognise HBO, you need to be attuned to American TV culture; either because you're a serious fan of shows that HBO produces (and thus are aware of fansites telling you that this is a HBO production), or because US cable TV was significant to you for other reasons (lived in the US, worked in the industry etc).