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Cable TV Providers, Content Firms in Talks to Put Shows Online

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on February 20, 2009 - 9:11am.
New York - Several major cable TV providers, including Comcast (NASD: CMCSA) and Time Warner Cable (NYSE: TWC), are currently in negotiations with big-name content providers like Viacom (NYSE: VIA), Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) and NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) on providing their programming online to cable TV subscribers, The Wall Street Journal reported. "Online video is our friend, not our enemy," Comcast CEO Brian Roberts told The Journal.

The prospective services, which would likely offer a live stream of the cable TV channel a subscriber could also be watching on television, could launch as early as his year, people familiar with the discussions told The Journal.

Such services and would compete with existing online video site like Hulu, TV.com and Joost, but offer largely previously unavailable cable TV programming, from providers like MTV, USA and TNT.

 

 

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Published in DMW Daily, February 20, 2009
tags: Video | TV | Comcast | Viacom | NBC Universal | Time Warner Cable | Time Warner | Hulu |



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