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04/28/2016
Smit: Comcast Hasn’t Seen an OTT Model ‘That Really Hunts’
There are no barriers that would prevent Comcast from building and deploying its own OTT-TV service, but the MSO remains unconvinced that the model strikes the right business chord, Neil Smit, president and CEO of Comcast Cable, said Wednesday on the company’s first quarter earnings call.
Smit was responding to an analyst question about a set of new OTT services coming later this year from AT&T, including “DirecTV Now,” a service that aims to largely replicate the traditional DirecTV pay TV offering.
“There’s no reason we couldn’t do something very similar from a technology perspective or a rights perspective,” Smit said. “We would just have to go get the rights to deploy the product.”
