Digital Music Group, Inc. (DMGI) has announced that the company has entered into an agreement with Apple Inc. Shares of DMGI soared 29.59% in after hours trading upon release of the news of the Apple deal.
DMGI has appointed Apple as a reseller of audio-visual files owned and/or controlled by DMGI, including television programs, feature length movies, shorts, and specialty content, within the relevant territory, and granted Apple certain rights to market and promote DMGI’s Video Content.
Apple agreed to pay DMGI fixed wholesale prices for each video download during the term of the Agreement. Under the Agreement, DMGI is generally responsible for all royalties and third party payments due with respect to the exploitation of DMGI’s Video Content. Apple will provide monthly sales reports to DMGI and make payment based on such reports.
The Agreement has a term beginning on January 19, 2007 and continuing for thirty-six months from the launch of DMGI’s Video Content on iTunes electronic store and any renewals or extensions thereof, as mutually agreed to by Apple and DMGI in writing.
According DMGI’s website, the company has hundreds of thousands of music tracks as well as thousands of hours of TV, film and video content, including:
• I Spy (82 episodes)
• Daniel Boone (165 episodes)
• My Favorite Martian (107 episodes)
• The Invisible Man (26 episodes)
• The Cisco Kid (156 episodes)
• Peter Gunn (114 episodes)
• The Adventures of Robin Hood (113 episodes)
• The Gumby Show (110 episodes)
• Gumby Adventures (116 episodes)
• The Shari Show (26 episodes)
• Clutch Cargo (52 episodes)
• Courageous Cat and Minute Mouse (125 episodes)
• Sam Kinison’s HBO Specials (5 hours)
• Cheech Marin and Friends Live from South Beach
• Sinbad: Son of a Preacher Man and Afros and Bellbottoms
• Steve Harvey: Don’t Trip, He Ain’t Through with Me Yet
• Bizarre, a popular comedy/variety show starring John Byner and featuring the stunts and antics of “Super Dave” Osborne (150 episodes)
• More than 40 hours of historic content and documentaries including:
– The Great Inventors
– The Korean War In Color
– World War II in Color
– Kamikaze in Color
– Greatest US Space Liftoffs
– Greatest Soviet Space Liftoffs
– Soviet Space Disasters
– historic speeches by Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt, Lyndon Johnson, Winston Churchill, John F. Kennedy, and Richard Nixon
– historic newsreels from the mid-1920s to the mid-1960s
• Hopalong Cassidy (52 episodes and 60 feature length films)
• 13 feature-length films adapted from the Zane Grey series
More info about DMGI: http://www.dmgi.com/
The Cisco Kid might get lawyers’ ears perking up.
(P.S. This is cool. Some of those old shows were a lot of fun.)
I’m Gumby, dammit!
the political speaches would be cool. If we could get a copy of the “I have a dream” or “ask not what your country can do for you” or “I’m not a crook!”
Wow, Gumby. Very cool.
Not to mention some other classic shows.
Gumby is cool, but we need “Davey and Goliath” so that we can directly compare it to Adult Swim’s “Moral Orel”.
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MDN magic word “staff” as in “my rod and my. . .” oh nevermind.
Clutch Cargo! Woo Hoo!!!!!
My Favorite Martian!
Awesome!
Wondered where they were.
Another stone has been added!
“the political speaches would be cool.”
I love speaches. Especially when they are ripe.
I’d love to see Monty Pythons Flying Circus television show on iTunes. Someday soon.
Gumby!
MAybe I’m giving my age away, but I haven’t seen that since my youth watching the late Ray Rayner on his WGN morning kiddie show. Yes, I’m a late baby boomer. Anyone who grew up watching Chicago TV back in the 60’s knows who I’m talking about. It was a much simpler and more innocent age for us and the country.
Damn, ole timer.
The Sixties were a more innocent times. What, with drugs, rock n’ roll music, long hair, tear gas protests, national guard shootings on college campuses, police riot gear at political conventions, race riots, national leader assassinations…
Things are simply outta control these days!
PS – Gigglesnort Hotel was cool!!
I’m holding out for Frazier Thomas and Garfield Goose. Or maybe Captain Kangaroo and Mr. Greenjeans. How about Bozo the Clown and Ringmaster Ned?
@Clutch Cargo-OMG: you know of whom I speak. I was born in Aurora (Excellent!) and lived in Oak Park until 1965.
My, my, how things have changed…
TV shows, especially the old ones, are great for iTunes. But why do they have to charge money for it? After all we’ve already watched those dumb ads the first time around.
It’s just not fair. 🙁
MW “night” – that doesn’t make any sense at all.
Clutch Cargo. Sweet.
• The Gumby Show (110 episodes)
• Gumby Adventures (116 episodes)
The obvious: I’m Gumby, Dammit!
• Sinbad: Son of a Preacher Man and Afros and Bellbottoms
Sinbad’s a huge Mac fan. It’s nice to see him in the iTS.
Cisco Kid! ROTFLMAO! Oh, Jesus! The Cisco Kid! Oh, that’s so kewl. Oh, yeah! We gotta get that one up on iTunes. Oh, just picture playing an episode on your iPhone. Oh, Jesus. My gut hurts. My eyes are gonna pop. Oh frickin’ Jesus, Mary & Joseph kissin’ in a tree!
I know it’s not that funny. But still…
This is what separates iTunes from virtually everyone else… and I think what will prove to be huge…
This represents the beginning of a huge repository of archived television and movies ALL IN ONE PLACE.
There is a lot that is not easily accessible.
Kudos to Apple.
Jesus Christ, who wants to watch any of this shit? Hopalong Cassidy? LMFAO!! Let me alert my 67 year old pops who has no idea what iTunes is.
Where the hell are The Simpsons?
I’m patiently waiting for Abbott & Costello’s “Who’s on first”. That would make my day. This announcement tells me its near.
I want the 3 STOOGES
Those documentaries are going to be great for K-12 classes — store them on the teacher’s Mac, then get an Airport Extreme and an Apple TV and you’re good to go.
Or a retirement home could possibly run its own mini-network with the classic shows, westerns, etc. for the residents.
And Gumby is great for little kids…might even signal a comeback of the old Gumby and Pokey toys (always like Pokey best)…
anybody remember Gigantor and speed racer
Europe… when? :-s
Daniel Boone! Awesome.