Banff 2019: No quibble with Quibi, yet

By Bill Roberts

BANFF – As part of the BWMF Summit Series, Jeffrey Katzenberg one of our industry’s most successful and venerable executives (with a personal fortune in the US$900+ million range), spoke to the assembled masses about his latest endeavour Quibi – the first major entertainment platform purpose-built for high quality, mobile programming – which will debut next year (April 6, 2020 and for $5-$8/month) in Canada and the U.S. simultaneously.Katzenberg has been feverishly selling this daring vision in old fashioned retail style from Cannes, to Austin, to now Banff.Randy Lennox, President of Bell Media, did the on-stage interview and Katzenberg shared...