Showtime Networks chairman Matt Blank has felt the waves of change moving through the cable industry, so he’s been ready for the digital shift. Even Showtime’s offering of direct-to-consumer options is something he thought possible five years ago.

“It took a long time to get it going,” said Blank, who was recently inducted into the Cable TV Pioneers. “For years we talked about digital as a delivery medium, a way to enable certain technologies. Now we really talk about digital as a whole new type of consumer and a whole new type of business model.”

View the entire interview, part of our CSG International-sponsored series, here.

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The world’s changing and so is Comcast. That’s how Chairman and Co-CEO Brian Roberts described the decision to spin off NBCUniversal and Sky from its broadband/mobile/platform business.

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