VIDWeek: No One Immune to the OTT Effect, Rogers Says

Disruption to pay-TV providers, programmers will ‘catapult’ as non-sports skinny bundles emerge

Author:: TV Technology Staff
Updated:: Feb 23, 2018
Original:: Jun 15, 2017

NEW YORK—Former NBC and TiVo exec Tom Rogers is the keynote speaker at the NextTV Summit and one of his messages to those in attendance is that programmers and distributors of all sizes are not immune to the disruption coming from OTT video services. Rogers claims that the impact of OTT will take longer to affect larger media companies, but will impact them just the same.

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