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AOL to Begin Selling TV Shows, User Videos Online

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on March 6, 2006 - 6:37am.
New York - In a bid to challenge new offerings from Apple's iTunes Store, Yahoo and Google Video, America Online plans to begin selling TV programs and other video content through its website later this year, Reuters reported on Monday. "We've been in discussion for months with every major cable and broadcast network," Kevin Conroy, executive vice president of AOL Media Networks, told Reuters. The service is expected to include both free and pay-per-download programming, as well as a subscription component, and will utilize Microsoft delivery and security technology that enables downloads to portable media players. Before the new service launches, AOL plans later this month to offer nearly 5000 vintage TV shows for free, on a service called In2TV.
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