NBC says it will pull shows from iTunes
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NBC Universal has told Apple Inc. that it would not allow its television content to be sold on iTunes following a dispute over pricing.
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NBC Universal said on Wednesday it will sell prime-time television shows like "The Office" and "Heroes" on demand over cell phone networks in the United States.
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After dumping iTunes as an outlet for its TV shows, NBC Universal says it will sell new fall shows through Amazon's Unbox digital download service. Customers can buy a whole season of Heroes at once, or purchase one at a time for $2, beginning the day after an episode airs.
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By Tony Glover, The Business, London  Dec. 14--Music fans are forsaking Apple's iTunes music download service  in droves -- a trend that will dash the hopes of music labels like EMI.
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NBC Universal said Tuesday  it will stream full episodes of old TV shows, including "The  A-Team" and "Kojak," on its Web sites.
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TV programmes such as Heroes will not be available on iTunes after US broadcaster NBC ends a deal with Apple.
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NBC Universal has reached a deal  for online retailer Amazon.com Inc to sell television show  downloads, it said on Tuesday, just days after the media  company pulled the plug on a contract with Apple Inc&#39;siTunes.
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InfoWorld - Contract negotiations between Apple and NBC Universal regarding video content in iTunes are getting nastier and staying public.
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NBC Universal has decided against  renewing its contract to sell digital downloads of television  shows on Apple Inc&#39;s iTunes after failing to come to an  agreement on pricing, the New York Times reported in its online  edition on Friday.
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NBC Universal said yesterday it would soon permit consumers to download many of NBC's most popular programs to personal computers and other devices - initially free of charge - for one week immediately after their broadcasts.
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NBC Universal is ending  production on its low-rated daytime talk show "In the Loop With  iVillage."
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NBC Universal said on Wednesday it  will sell prime-time television shows like "The Office" and  "Heroes" on demand over cell phone networks in the United  States.
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The season premieres of seven Fox Broadcasting shows will be offered on Apple Inc.'s iTunes store for free in the latest example of TV networks using the Web to create interest in their shows.
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(InfoWorld) - NBC Universal's pullout from the iTunes online store is more of a loss for Apple and points to fierce resistance among media companies to potential Apple dominance of online video sales, an industry analyst said. On Friday, Apple announced it won't sell NBC TV shows for the upcoming television season after NBC's decision not to renew its iTunes contract. Apple explained that NBC wanted to increase its wholesale price for each episode by so much that Apple would have had to charge $4.99 per episode instead of the current rate of $1.99 for all videos on the site. Apple wouldn't agree to that price change. Shows from ABC, CBS, and News Corp.'s FOX and The CW, plus 50 cable networks, are available on iTunes for the flat rate. The incident reflects how poorly the iTunes video store has done relative to the iTunes music store, said James McQuivey, an analyst with Forrester Research. "It shows how paltry and uninfluential the video side of the iTunes house is," he said. Few major music labels could similarly afford to pull out of iTunes, which dominates the online music industry. iTunes does make up the bulk of the online video resale market, but the market is small. Because the segment is still budding, many of the media companies are resisting Apple's attempt to dominate the video market as it does the online music business, he said. Forrester expects the online video resale business to generate about $300 million this year with iTunes taking in most of that. He estimates that NBC will bring in about $60 million from iTunes video sales this year. The loss of that revenue would be "not that big of a cost if it helps them undermine Apple's monopoly aspirations in the video world," McQuivey said. In the meantime, NBC is building a new platform for watching shows on its own Web site for free with paid advertising. NBC has already sold its online advertising inventory for the upcoming season, which represents revenue it won't have to share with Apple. Revenue from that service is likely to generate hundreds of millions of dollars in a few short years, McQuivey said. The rift with NBC is more damaging to Apple than to NBC, he said, because Apple is pushing several video products, including the Apple TV, the iPhone, and video iPods. While other big content providers are probably cheering NBC's decision, they're unlikely to follow suit, McQuivey said. They may, however, use the incident to continue to push Apple to allow variable pricing. So far, Apple has insisted on a flat rate for all videos. Media companies would prefer to be able to charge more for exclusives or season finales, he said.
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NBC Universal said on Wednesday it  will offer episodes of some of its new prime-time shows for  free online viewing on personal computers in a bid to build an  audience for its fall schedule.
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British viewers will be able to download  a selection of BBC programs from Apple's digital store iTunes,  under a deal announced by the public broadcaster's commercial  arm on Tuesday.
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Come December, popular NBC shows like Battlestar Galactica and The Office will no longer be available through the iTunes Store, after NBC (the No. 1 supplier of digital videos to iTunes) decides not to renew its contract with Apple. The decision follows Universal music's shunning of the iTunes Store and announcement of the upcoming Hulu, NBC Universal's own stab at online television.