AOL, Warner In2TV team-up
p2p news / p2pnet: AOL has come up with yet another scheme to bolster its failing fortunes.
It and Warner Bros Domestic Cable Distribution will try to wow you, next year, by re-cycling TV oldies.
A new broadband network called In2TV will be launched in early 2006, the companies said today, states WCNC.com.
In2TV will “offer more than 100 TV series and at least 300 episodes per month in the first year,” the companies said. They’ll be, “delivered through AOL Video on Demand, AOL Video Search and AOL Television”.
At launch, “the programs will be available exclusively on AOL and will not be in syndication on TV” and, “Several alternates to traditional TV viewing have been announced in recent weeks, including a deal between Apple Computer Inc. and Walt Disney Co. that makes reruns of ‘Lost’ and other programs available for downloading to iPods,” says WCNC.com, adding:
“CBS and NBC have also decided to allow video-on-demand of some of their primetime shows.”
Or as catflap recently put it, “The American TV networks are in trouble. BIG trouble. But that`s not BIG news. What is big news is that they`re scrambling at the 11th hour to change their business and distribution models to meet (what they believe are) consumers` demands.”
See:-
WCNC.com – AOL, Warner to bring old TV shows online, November 14, 2005
BIG trouble – catflap to US TV networks, November 6, 2005
November 14th, 2005 at 6:51 pm
I read the AP story about this earlier today. It said these old shows would be streamed free of charge. Will there be commercial interruptions? AOL is not doing this out of the goodness of their heart. There has to be a money angle in there somewhere. I can see the day (not too far off) when big media starts leaning real heavy on ISPs to throttle certain kinds of internet traffic down (P2P) so there is more bandwidth available for them to stream their commercials into people’s brains, er, I mean homes. After all, the media does not exsist to inform and entertain, it’s purpose is to create demand for consumer goods, oh, and also to consolidate more power and wealth for the powerful and wealthy.