Time Warner Cable Plans TV Everywhere Trials

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on August 27, 2009 - 8:22am.

New York - Time Warner Cable (NYSE: TWC) announced on Thursday that it is working with numerous networks on upcoming trials of TV Everywhere, a service that will let cable subscribers access many of their pay-TV channels for free online.

Rival cable provider Comcast, as well as the satellite TV firms, and digital TV services like Verizon's are also testing the concept with networks and subscribers.

For Time Warner Cable's trials, the company has secured participation from networks including sister company Time Warner's (NYSE: TWX) own TBS, TNT and HBO, in addition to CBS, Syfy, BBC America, AMC, WE tv, IFC, Sundance Channel, Discovery Communications and Smithsonian Channel.

The company said its trials "will include many shows currently unavailable online and others that will be made available on the Internet more quickly following their original airdates than they are currently."

The trials are set to launch in select markets over the next few months, beginning with about 5,000 customers.

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