HBO Chairman and Chief Executive Chris Albrecht spent yesterday in his Los Angeles home awaiting his fate.

Albrecht is to find out if he will face assault and battery charges stemming from his arrest in Las Vegas early Sunday and what, if any, disciplinary action Time Warner would take against him.

Albrecht, a former stand-up comedian who was in Vegas for HBO’s telecast of the Oscar De La Hoya-Floyd Mayweather Jr. fight, was arrested outside the MGM Grand casino after police witnessed him “engaged in a physical altercation” with a woman believed to be his girlfriend.

Albrecht’s girlfriend, whose name was not released, is not pressing charges, according to a source familiar with the situation.

The question now becomes whether the Las Vegas district attorney’s office will move ahead with misdemeanor battery and domestic assault charges on its own.

Any professional ramifications the HBO boss may face, as a result of his altercation, would be handed down from parent company Time Warner, not the network itself.

A Time Warner spokesman said only that the company “is still gathering facts and looking into the matter.”

An HBO spokesman declined comment.