AK vs AK in the Australian pay TV space?
First, there was Fetch TV, into which AK's Astro and other companies are investing: Scott Lorson was appointed in September 2009 as the chief executive officer of FetchTV Pty Ltd, a start-up wholesaler that has designed a pay TV platform business for Internet service providers to deliver free and pay TV channels, movies on demand, and other interactive content to their broadband customers. FetchTV is 55 percent owned by management including the executive director, Simon Cathcart, one of the two Australian founders, and 45 percent by Astro Holdings, a Malaysian media and communications investment company. Freelance communications journalist, Liz Fell, interviewed Lorson for the Telecommunications Journal of Australia( TJA) in mid-October (2011) at the FetchTV offices in Milsons Point, NSW. TJA : And at the top of UT is Tatparanandam Ananda Krishnan, known as TAK these days I believe? Lorson : Yes, he’s often referred to as TAK. TJA : I met him many years ago when he was at t