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Is ABC About to Launch Subscription Streaming?

Published by admin on 5/28/2010 in Media Headlines.

Engadget got their hands on an alleged survey for ABC that’s getting a feel for how people feel about paying to stream the network’s shows online with some caveats. Pricing points of $1.99 to $4.99 monthly and $0.50 per episode were showing up for some of the survey takers

The survey shows two hypothetical scenarios for streaming ABC shows online, a free and paid options with some caveats but both including advertising.

The hypothetical free option will limit users to streaming 2 of the most recently aired episodes, available the next morning after it airs, and with 35% of the advertising seen on TV (approx 5-6 minutes of ads per hour).

The hypothetical paid version of the service will offer the 5 most recent episodes, available immediately after it airs on the local affiliate, with 15% of the advertising seen on TV (approx 2-3 minutes of ads per hour). The paid version might also make available the complete seasons of some shows.

The survey also asks people to assume that any ABC shows now available for streaming on places like Hulu will no longer be accessible for free but may be available to those who pay.

Interesting development, perhaps the result of recent news that as many as 800,000 people have abandoned paid cable or satellite TV in favor of free online streaming? What remains to be seen is how the local affiliates will be handled to keep them happy?

1 Comment Tags: abc, streaming.

Daily Show Pans CNN Rick Sanchez

Published by admin on 3/3/2010 in Media Headlines and Videos.

funny stuff. Daily Show pans Rick Sanchez and CNN’s coverage of tsunami warning after Chilean earthquake

9 Comments Tags: cnn, daily show, jon stewart, rick sanchez, video, WSVN.

Just in case you live under a rock…

Published by Alex on 1/12/2010 in Media Headlines.

SFLTV.com comment of the day: “[18:40] meeboguest28622: I don’t know if SFLTV received news of NBC dumping Jay Leno’s show at 10PM, and moving him back to 11:35PM after the Winter Olympics or not. Hope that could be the breaking news that SFLTV.com is working on.”

Yes. Yes we are aware… and just in case you weren’t (and somehow live under a rock), FTVLive.com broke the story first on the Jay Leno/Conan situation.

38 Comments Tags: conan, ftvlive, jay leno.

Congress Takes On Loud Commercials

Published by admin on 10/9/2009 in Media Headlines and Notes.

The locally inserted commercials by cable companies have to be worst offenders when it comes to loudness. Now congress is taking on them with a new act called CALM, Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation, (yay for “clever” acronyms). The act will attempt to make the volume of commercials uniform.

Now how do we fix the general campiness that local ads are known for?

4 Comments Tags: can you hear me now, commercials, loud.

Is Comcast About to Buy NBC Universal?

Published by admin on 10/1/2009 in Media Headlines.

Yesterday The Wrap went out with an exclusive story that Comcast is making a move to buy NBC Universal! According to the site the deal is already sealed and the cable giant is said to be shelling out  $35 billion for NBC Universal. A highly leveraged move since Comcast itself has a $48billion market cap and only about $4 billion in cash.

NBC Universal had $7.5 billion in revenues in the first half of 2009 and made $1.6 billion in profit.

Interestingly Comcast PR didn’t deny the news completely but said that the report is “inaccurate”. The LA Times says it’s possible Comcast may be looking at some sort of a joint venture or a stake in NBC Universal instead of an outright buy.

As of 11:43am eastern Comcast stock is down 7.52%

Not sure if this is good news or bad news considering the state of NBC’s local news. A highly leveraged buy such as this might not leave much room for improving local news and their ever shrinking budgets.

25 Comments Tags: comcast, NBC Universal.