Hollywood Suite says its ready for a la carte and is thinking about original content

By Linda Stuart

TORONTO — Since launching five years ago with 11 full-time employees, under the leadership of Canadian TV industry veterans Jay Switzer and David Kines, commercial-free movie service Hollywood Suite has slowly but surely been growing.After rejigging its original studio-focused channels a year ago and rebranding them as a quartet of decades-focused channels in anticipation of the rollout of the pick-and-pay regime, company executives believe the company is well positioned for the new market reality of a la carte TV channel choice.Despite continuing to be small in stature, now employing 14, Hollywood Suite’s success shouldn’t come as too much of a...