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[bTelevisions - Your Televisions Blog] The two-month trial will involve shows such as Desperate Housewives, Lost, and in the following months, Commander in Chief and Alias, which have cult followings in traditional TV. While Disney already has deals with other online distribution outfits, such as on Apple’s iTunes Store (versions for the iPod video are available for download), the company intends to venture into other revenue and distribution models.
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[JupiterResearch Analyst Weblogs] What Internet TV Is Good For: To be sure, there are doubters. "I've never been a believer that we should create channels for all these niches like beach volleyball," said John Skipper, a senior vice president of ESPN, a unit of the Walt Disney Company.
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[Paidcontent.org] paidContent.org: is launching a multimillion dollar public-service ad campaign across its many media properties, including MySpace.com, the Fox channel and Fox-owned cable channels such as FX, National Geographic and Fuel TV. The ads don’t mention News Corp.
[Blogmaverick.com] How Bob Iger Saved Network TV - Blog Maverick - www.blogmaverick.com _: If you start from the premise that in the US, programming (as in the stuff that the networks make available to us via cable, satellite or free to air) only comes in two flavors - ad supported or premium (paid for by the viewer) then what Disney have started to do is address ways in which to replace the fall off in revenue generated by the sale of 0:30 spots etc. The increase in dollars spent in "product placement" and contributions to production costs were the first wave, download will be the second and actually getting paid real money (they did not until last week) for VOD will be the 3rd.
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[Redherring.com] RED HERRING | Disney Uses iPods for Ads: studios have been in the forefront of advertising movies by using different Internet channels. Both Sony Pictures and 20th Century Fox have used IPTV, or Internet Protocol Television, to promote upcoming releases in the form of DVD-quality trailers (see Sony Uses IPTV to Plug Movies).
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