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Inside Move: Wired for the job

Pay TV powerhouse hones choices for CEO

The search to fill one of the most coveted jobs in Australian pay TV –CEO of the Premium Movie Partnership — has narrowed to two contenders.

They are Peter Rose, one of the pioneers of the feevee business when he was hired to keep afloat the Australis platform (it went belly-up after he left), and Jack Matthews, a U.S. cable TV exec.

PMP CEO Bob Donoghue is retiring after running the firm –co-owned by Sony, Paramount, Universal, Fox and Liberty Media — since its inception seven years ago.

The partners have conducted interviews in L.A. with Rose (who returned to Oz late last year after spearheading marketing for London-based UIP for three and a half years) and Matthews, who until a couple of months ago ran a cabler/telco service, Telstra Saturn, in New Zealand.

The two were short-listed from a lengthy list of applicants for the well-paid, high-profile job.

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No decision is expected for a few weeks, but Matthews, who is well versed in the U.S. cable biz after serving with several MSOs, is being tipped.

Matthews might be seen as a better fit culturally with the studios, although the straight-talking Rose knows his way around Hollywood and is far more attuned to the Aussie pay TV scene.

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