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Thursday, 20th September 2007

TV on the Web: ABC and NBC Will Stream New Content; AOL's In2TV Continues to Offer Free "Classic" TV Streams

++ ABC and NBC to Distribute Complete Programs Online for Free

++ ABC will offer Stream Shows via AOL Video (News Release)
“The Bachelor,” “Brothers & Sisters” and “Grey’s Anatomy” are three of the programs. They will also be available on ABC.com.

++ NBC will Stream Shows On NBC.com
Remember, NBC is no longer distributing programs via iTunes.
Two programs will be available to begin: NBC will start by offering limited free downloads of "Heroes" and "The Office."
From an AP article:

The new service, dubbed "NBC Direct," will allow users to download episodes to computers running Microsoft Windows software for up to a week after the show has aired on television. The file will contain embedded advertising that cannot be skipped. Seven days after the episode's TV debut, the digital file will expire.

A test launch of NBC Direct will begin next month. At launch more programs will become available including:
+ Life
+ Bionic Woman
+ 30 Rock
+ Friday Night Lights
+ Late Night with Conan O'Brien
+ The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.

NOTE: Some complete programs continue to be made available on this page.

See Also: AOL's In2TV.com Offers Thousands of Hours of "Classic TV" Programming at No Charge. From Josie and the Pussycats to Gumby to The Jetsons to The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and many more shows. Btw, In2TV also has a collection of Looney Tunes available for streaming. Btw, some content is fee-based. For example, this collection of "first episodes" offers both free and fee-based programming. Other special collections include actors in early tv roles, unaired pilots, special guest stars, and more.

See Also: CBS innertube

See Also: We have pointed out several times that thousands of tv shows from around the world as well as full length movies are available online by way of what the Wall Street Journal calls "guerilla sites." For example, Alluc.org, TV Links and others offer directories to where to find the content. It's worth mentioning that Alluc.org and other sites have been mentioned in The NY Times, Wall Street Journal, and The Guardian. It will be interesting to watch (no pun intended) to see if the content owners begin to force sites hosting this content to remove it. It will be a neverending job. Once it's removed from Site A with a DMCA request, it will then move to Site B. A non-stop cat and mouse game.

See Also: It’s a Living: Viewing Web Video for Copyright Violations


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