OTT HBO won’t threaten Canadian companies for a while

WHILE HBO CEO RICHARD Plepler said Wednesday the premium pay TV service will offer an over-the-top version of itself in 2015 to customers who aren’t traditional subscription TV customers, don’t look for it to come to Canada any time soon.Both Bell Media and Corus Entertainment recently signed long term multiplatform deals with HBO which will allow the companies to control original and library content from the U.S. pay service likely until at least 2018. The deals with Bell (which operates TMN multiplex HBO Canada in the eastern half of the country and) and Corus (which operates Movie Central multiplex HBO...