Hulu’s potential buyers may be edging away from a deal after Fox’s decision to limit the streaming to Hulu. Fox has decided to limit the streaming of programs, allowing only paying customers access to next-day streaming and letting non-paying users wait eight days for the programs to stream. Television networks like Fox are upset by the traffic Hulu drains from their own websites. The New York Times reports that ABC may follow Fox’s suit. [Mashable]
Hulu is currently in negotiations to extend the right to stream TV programs on their website provided by NBC, Fox, and ABC. This would be an extension to a deal that News Corp., Disney, and NBCUniversal signed two years ago.
Christiane Amanpour is an ABC anchor that was conducting interviews in Egypt. It turns out that she ended up in the wrong part of town because a pro-Mubarak riot chased her into her car and shouted that they do not like Americans. Check out the video below:
In December 2009 Comcast Corporation (NASDAQ:CMCSA) made a deal to acquire NBC from General Electric. This deal is facing scrutiny from the government. The FCC said that one of the proposed conditions if they allow the deal to take place is that NBC would no longer have the exclusive rights to their shows on the Internet. This means that Hulu would not be the only web video service that has the rights to stream NBC shows. The three owners in Hulu are NBC, ABC, and FOX. [AllThingsD]
Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ:NFLX) has signed a deal with The Walt Disney Company (NYSE:DIS) to stream ABC, Disney, and ABC Family shows. That means you can watch shows like Grey’s Anatomy, Desperate Housewives, Hannah Montana, and High School Musical. [ZDNet]
Hulu Plus is now integrated on the Sony Dash Personal Internet Viewer device. To access the thousands of movies and shows from ABC, Fox, and NBC, you will need to pay $9.99 per month. The 7-inch Sony Dash touch screen also has access to over 1,000 free applications. The device retails for about $199. [CNET]
ABC, CBS, and NBC stated that they are not going to allow full length episodes of their shows on Google TV. However they will allow promotional clips when browsing with Google TV. Google TV lets you access the web browser and YouTube from your TV screen.
Time Warner Inc. (NYSE:TWX) has fired Jonathan Klein, the president of CNN/US. Ken Jautz, president of HLN, will be replacing Klein. Jautz is known for finding Glenn Beck on the radio and putting him on TV.