Aereo CEO Chet Kanojia – ‘Cable’s an Inefficient Packaging System’

Aereo — which has drawn the legal ire of networks for providing their content via tiny antennas — has been painted as a potential killer of the television and cable industries. But the way Chet Kanojia, the founder and CEO of the company sees it, Aereo doesn’t pose much of a threat to those industries — because they’re providing enough of a threat to themselves if they don’t adapt to the changing habits of consumers.

Aereo, already in a handful of cities, including New York and Boston, allows consumers to bypass cable by hooking up to the company’s network of mini-antennae to receive, free, basic broadcast television. Dragged into court by ABC, NBC, CBS and Fox, it so far appears to be prevailing. He also opined that anyone who thinks viewers are excited about waiting to see their favorite programs at a particular time on a particular night, interrupted by commercials, is “delusional.” “People want choice, people want simple,” Kanojia said — and they don’t like to pay bills.