NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) โ HBO will kick off coverage of Inauguration Week with an exclusive Sunday, January 18, telecast of the star-studded opening ceremony, two days before the saturation coverage of President-elect Barack Obamaโs inauguration begins in earnest.In 1993, HBO paid $1.5 million to the Presidential Inaugural Committee to televise Bill Clintonโs kickoff from the Lincoln Memorial, something that annoyed non-HBO subscribers who werenโt able to watch the concert by Bob Dylan and Diana Ross.This time around, HBO โ which has been HBO land s rights to inaugural ceremony โ Yahoo! News.