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please_and_thankyou t1_j820tkn wrote

Because it’s 6pm PST for HBO prime time.

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E_Barriick t1_j82elct wrote

Yeah but it's streaming. Meaning they can watch it whenever.

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testingtor t1_j81yl8g wrote

Youre an old ass boomer. 8 pm was normal prime time but dramas were normally 9 or 10 since its after family dinner and the little kids are asleep.

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cronedog t1_j81z3rl wrote

I think to maximize the number of people from the west cost that can watch right away. If they made it 8, it might be better for east coast who have early bed times but then west coast will be grumping that they aren't home from work and ready to watch a show at 5pm.

On the other hand, them being grumpy for a bit is better than making you wait until the following day to watch something.

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ForgivenessIsNice t1_j82diy1 wrote

>west coast will be grumping that they aren't home from work and ready to watch a show at 5pm.

100% false. They have HBO Max. They can watch it when they get back. Only a few boomers who still watch on the TV channel rather than Max would complain.

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illuvattarr t1_j821zje wrote

Try living in Europe where episodes drop at 3am on monday morning and can mostly only watch it monday evening at the earliest.

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ijakinov t1_j822wu6 wrote

HBO has historically been a channel that most people primairily get to watch movies commercial-free on cable/satelite and probably still is. HBO shows are critically acclaimed but you aren't seeing massive viewership via linear in the past two decades apart from a handful of shows, especially in recent years with streaming. Most of the viewership is happening on streaming nowadays for the people interested in the shows. The Last of Us only had around ~1M viewers on linear whereas had millions more viewers on streaming.

So to answer your question what's happening 6-8PM is that they are showing movies. Movies that are likely the primary reason why a lot of people are subscribing to and using the linear channel.

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root_fifth_octave t1_j82639j wrote

It definitely wouldn’t work as well for me if I lived in the eastern time zone.

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ddbaxte t1_j827kig wrote

Bill Maher and Edge of Tomorrow are happening on HBO from 6-9pm.

I'm assuming you're talking about Sunday evening episode premiers.

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ForgivenessIsNice t1_j82dcha wrote

Yeah it's a little inconveniently late. I think it'd be much better if they came out at 8pm. That extra hour is a huge difference.

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reddit455 t1_j81zzv4 wrote

> old ass boomer?

then you should remember the broadcast television prime time hours.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_time

Prime time or the peak time is the block of broadcast programming taking place during the middle of the evening for a television show. It is mostly targeted towards adults (and sometimes families). It is used by the major television networks to broadcast their season's nightly programming. The term prime time is often defined in terms of a fixed time period—for example (in the United States), from 8:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. (Eastern and Pacific Time) or 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m

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