TUESDAY INTERVIEW: Talking personal TV with VOD leader Yvette Gordon-Kanouff

BACK IN 1998, WHEN everyone in cable was talking about video on demand and no one was doing anything about it yet, Yvette Gordon-Kanouff was it’s champion. She knew it would work. She wrote the seminal paper on the subject that year for her employer, SeaChange, which laid out an attractive VOD business case for any operator looking to launch the service. That paper was cited often (sometimes even by SeaChange competitors) for a number of years. Now, VOD is almost pervasive. Most North Americans with a big-city cable provider can get some type of video on demand in their...