ScreenTalk: John Fellet
09 Jun 2015
In this interview to mark Sky TV’s 25th anniversary in NZ, CEO John Fellet outlines the changes he’s seen in his time with the company.
In this interview to mark Sky TV’s 25th anniversary in NZ, CEO John Fellet outlines the changes he’s seen in his time with the company.
Fellet is a veteran of pay TV, having started his career in his native Arizona, and been with Sky TV in New Zealand since 1991. He became the company’s CEO in 2001, and helped build it into one of the dominant media companies in the country.
In this ScreenTalk, Fellet talks about:
- Spending most of his working life in pay TV
- The challenge of making Sky TV profitable as CEO of the business
- How adding a satellite enabled them to add to their original three channels
- Developing a strong focus on sports and sporting events
- How the growth of pay TV in the Pacific enabled Sky to add more channels
- Why content buying rules helped lead to the purchase of free-to-air channel Prime TV
- The rationale behind changes to who provides Prime News
- The current state of the TV industry, including sky-high content prices
- How after 25 years, Sky TV feels like one big family
This video was first uploaded on 26 May 2015, and is available on YouTube to embed and via this Creative Commons licence.
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