HBO Nederland (Home Box Office) was a Dutch premium television network, owned by a joint venture between HBO and the largest cable television operator in the Netherlands,

Ziggo Ziggo Holding B.V. () is the largest cable operator in the Netherlands, providing digital cable television, Internet, and telephone service to both residential and commercial customers. History The company is the result of the merger between ...

. It launched on 9 February 2012. HBO Nederland offered three television channels, available in HD and SD,

video-on-demand Video on demand (VOD) is a media distribution system that allows users to access videos without a traditional video playback device and the constraints of a typical static broadcasting schedule. In the 20th century, broadcasting in the form of ...

services and HBO GO. The programming consisted of HBO's own productions, TV series, documentaries and films from

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. HBO Netherlands closed on 31 December 2016. Cable company

has acquired the broadcasting licenses of HBO content for the Dutch market.

Channels

* HBO: Main flagship channel with television premieres * HBO 2: Second channel with a focus on

drama Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance: a play, opera, mime, ballet, etc., performed in a theatre, or on radio or television.Elam (1980, 98). Considered as a genre of poetry in general, the dramatic mode has b ...

and

comedy Comedy is a genre of fiction that consists of discourses or works intended to be humorous or amusing by inducing laughter, especially in theatre, film, stand-up comedy, television, radio, books, or any other entertainment medium. The term o ...

* HBO 3: Third channel with a focus on action and thriller * HBO On Demand * HBO GO

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HBO Netherlands Defunct television channels in the Netherlands Television channels and stations established in 2012 Television channels and stations disestablished in 2016

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