MEDIA PROFILE: HBO Asia chief faces challenges head-on
Jonathan Spink applies Australian-style ‘just-get-on-with-it’ principles as pay-TV channel moves swiftly to keep up with changing technology and consumer behaviour.
Oct 10, 2012 – For someone billed as media-shy, Jonathan Spink is surprisingly unguarded in one of the few interviews he’s given since taking on the chief executive role for HBO Asia in 2003. Admittedly, he’s not one to use 20 words when 10 will do, but he is frank about how the pay-TV broadcaster plans to develop and the challenges that it faces as it enters its 20th year.
His no-nonsense approach is perhaps, in part, a throwback from his early years in the TV industry at Sky Channel—then a fledgling business with just 40 staff in the United Kingdom.
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