Time Warner and Comcast team up to launch online video service

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: dewayne () warpspeed com (Dewayne Hendricks)
Date: June 24, 2009 12:55:19 PM EDT
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Time Warner and Comcast team up to launch online video service
09:05 AM PT, Jun 24 2009
<http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/entertainmentnewsbuzz/2009/06/time-warner-and-comcast-partner-for-online-video-service.html 
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Two of the biggest media titans are teaming up to build a system to  
offer more television shows online to people who currently subscribe  
to cable television.

Time Warner Inc. Chief Executive Jeff Bewkes and Comcast Corp. Chief  
Executive Brian Roberts this morning unveiled a partnership that  
initially will provide shows from two of Time Warner's cable channels  
-- TNT and TBS -- through a broadband connection to cable subscribers.  
The test will begin next month with 5,000 Comcast subscribers, and to  
all Comcast customers nationwide by year's end.

Both Bewkes and Roberts stressed that current cable subscribers will  
not pay more for the service. "They don't have to pay any extra fees  
for it," Roberts said. "This marks the very logical next evolution of  
cable television."

However, people will have to subscribe to a pay television service --  
initially Comcast and eventually other cable companies such as Time  
Warner Cable -- or a satellite service provider or a telephone  
company. The initial test will be available only to Comcast customers.

The initiative, which Comcast is calling OnDemand Online and Time  
Warner has dubbed TV Everywhere, is a response to the migration of  
viewers to the Internet. Bewkes and Roberts said they simply want to  
adapt the current economic model to the Internet so people could watch  
their favorite cable shows on their computers or mobile phones.

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