"We have a tremendous amount of great projects already in the funnel that, as the HBO team and Richard would describe it, they have not been in the position to say 'yes' to because of constraints on certain resources. What we are attempting to do is open up those constraints on very high, top quality projects that we think will balance out the schedule so we have a more engaging experience with HBO throughout the course of the year," Stankey said on a call with investors.
Stankey would not reveal exactly how much AT&T would invest into HBO for those purposes, but said the company looks forward to investing some of the efficiencies generated by the merger into direct to consumer products and premium programming.