Richard Plepler

Richard Plepler (born 1958) is an American media executive, who is said to have ushered in the second golden age of television, and former chairman and chief executive officer of Home Box Office, Inc. (HBO) a subsidiary of Time Warner Inc, and AT&T's WarnerMedia. After 28 years, on February 28, 2019, it was announced that Plepler was leaving HBO, eight months after the AT&T Time Warner merger. In 2020, Plepler launched EDEN Productions and announced a five-year production deal with Apple TV+ to make television series, documentaries, and feature films. Biography Plepler was born in Manchester, Connecticut, to a Jewish family. He is the elder of two brothers raised in Manchester. His parents were active in Democratic politics. His father was a trial lawyer. He attended the Loomis Chaffee School but ultimately graduated from the Watkinson School in Hartford in 1976 before attending and graduating from Franklin & Marshall College. Early career Plepler studied government in college and then moved to Washington in 1981 where he worked for Connecticut Senator Christopher Dodd.