RSSFox to Put Prime Time Shows Online
By the Betanews Staff | Published April 14, 2006, 12:15 PM
Fox has signed a six-year revenue sharing agreement with its 187 affiliates that will allow it to make sixty percent of its prime time schedule available online. The move follows a similar one by Disney's ABC network that will put some of its most popular shows online a day after they originally air starting in May.
Details of the Fox agreement have not been ironed out, including what shows would be made available and how they would be delivered, but the network is considering allowing local affiliates to place the programs on their own Web sites. The agreement is an extension of one struck in 1993 that gave the local affiliates some responsibility in paying for the rights to air National Football League games.
Thanks but I'll download them free with no commercials or any proprietary weirdness from Bittorrent or Usenet the day after they've aired if I missed them or want to keep them.
That way *I* can decide how I want to view them, just like I did with videotapes all these years.
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|That's two. I dont' care about CBS, except for CSI, but NBC, I am interested... ABC, FOX, NBC woo hoo.
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|They all stink. The local news stations here--CBS is the best. NBC has some good stuff but the local news anchors stink. ABC--All Bull Cråp.
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|You people still watch TV? OMG retards, Ok ad lovers.
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|I would be willing to pay a few dollars per episode of 24 if it meant I could get it without having to watch it on Sky One. I wouldn't mind sensible DRM (eg requires license to play on my computer but can be converted to MPEG2 to be burned to DVD). I also think it would be great to distribute via BitTorrent. $3-5 dollars an ep or $20-25 for the whole series (which I could then burn to DVD) would be great IMHO.
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|Wow wouldn't it be nice to be able to watch all the shows you want without having to pay the cable /satellite company an insane amount of money? I hope more networks follow and provide the content for free (even if it streaming like abc has). I would love to drop my cable bill.
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|Kudos to ABC for getting the ball rolling...
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|NBC announcement in 3, 2, 1...
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|Wow you are good!
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