Panel The road of Pay TV operators to super aggregation
The process of streaming services aggregation to pay-TV platforms is an opportunity to bring new business to community operators, says Anthony Graham, founder, and CEO of Home Time Entertainment and Chairman of the Association of Community Cable Operators of Jamaica (The Jamaica Association of Community Cable Operators – JACCO).
“This aggregation process is refreshing. Your content becomes part of the process and your infrastructure is what gives life to that business,” said Graham in the framework of the second edition of the NEXTV Series Caribbean, organized by Dataxis.
The panel also included Alexander van Tienhoven, Director of CVP Entertainment of Cable & Wireless Communications; Thierry Hyppolite, CEO of NUTV and György Zsembery, CEO of Digicel Group Ltd’s Home & Entertainment Group.
During the meeting “The path of pay-TV operators to super aggregation”, Digicel’s Zsembery said that when venturing into the aggregation of streaming services it is necessary to negotiate with different regulatory environments and different requirements for each app, among other aspects. “You can’t have the same process for everything. How do you consolidate these environments and shorten the path? It is a difficult decision,” he pointed out.
For his part, van Tienhoven of Cable & Wireless Communications, which operates in 15 different markets, announced that they have just launched the Android TV platform also in Grenada (they already cover Puerto Rico and Chile). “There are many technical differences between different markets and this is what drives the Android TV-based system,” he said.
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