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So because HBO is selling more subscriptions to HBO (due to having one of the most popular shows available), they're doing as well as they possibly can? That s
by kevinh 14y ago
So because HBO is selling more subscriptions to HBO (due to having one of the most popular shows available), they're doing as well as they possibly can? That seems like it's ignoring all of the customers they could pick up and are sweeping aside as irrelevant.
Everything that Bewkes says indicates that he has preconceived notions of what he wants his business model to be. I would be very surprised if he wasn't cherry-picking data to meet his hypothesis. It's not very surprising that the CEO of a television conglomerate is sticking with forcing people to get cable subscriptions - that's probably better for Time Warner's bottom line, not HBO's.
- mtgx 14y agoWhen you get disrupted never wait until your financials start looking bad because of the disruption. At that point you're already too late to turn the company around, because it takes a few more years to do it, and you're quickly running out of time. Look at RIM. They were breaking sales record after sales record up until 2010, because of brand inertia in the international markets. So they thought things are just fine because the financials look good. But that's not what they should look for when they get disrupted. They find out if their products/services actually make sense in the new "era". If they don't, then it's just a matter of time before the financials start looking bad, too, as the world moves on.