Where’s TV headed? Ask Hulu CEO Jason Kilar. His company has insight from “daily interactions with users, advertisers, and content owners,” as he mentions in a recent company blog post.
What Do We Want?
In a nutshell, consumers want fewer ads, the convenience of on-demand programming available from any device, and we’ve …
According to a new survey by the PEW Center for the People and the Press, 44 percent of Americans get their news from the Internet with a little less than one-fifth of those questioned admitting that it is their main source. The web has become the second most popular place for world and local information, up 17 points from 2007. This …
What if broadcasters had to prove that they provided value to the public in order to keep their licenses? That’s an idea being proposed by Michael Copps, one of the five commissioners on the FCC, who told an audience at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism yesterday that the current licensing system in the US should be …
Hulu Plus is now widely available to the general public for $8 per month, down from the beta-phase pricing of $10 per month. The online video service is jointly owned by ABC, NBC, and Fox, and features full episodes from many of the shows currently airing on the networks as well as access to a back catalog of shows from previous …
Marvel’s editor-in-chief Joe Quesada has let it be known that upcoming plans for Marvel Entertainment are likely to include some kind of live-action TV series. This isn’t Marvel’s first stab at television, of course: for more than 35 years, they’ve been trying to get their comics the kind of promotion that the small screen can offer. A …
Verizon announced plans to offer an iPad app capable of showing television shows in real time to the company’s FiOS subscribers. Due to hit next year, the app will only show live channels at first—no recording or time-shifting just yet. Essentially, it turns your iPad into another TV if you’re a FiOS subscriber.
The service will …
One of the main questions that arose with Hulu’s announcement of its premium service, Hulu Plus, was whether or not the $10 per month subscription fee would provide for a commercial free viewing experience. It does not. The monthly fee basically gives subscribers access to entire back catalogs of shows from participating networks.
Here’s the deal with Hulu Plus. You pay Hulu $10 per month and they’ll let you watch every episode from every season of every show they offer from the likes of ABC, NBC, and FOX. Oh, and you can watch on your computer, your iPhone, your iPad, or your TV (provided you have an internet-connected TV or Blu-ray player made by Samsung). Hulu …
