As announced three months ago, NBC Universal TV channels (Bravo, mun2, NBC, NBC News, CNBC, NBC Sports, Sci Fi, Sleuth, Telemundo and USA) have disappeared from the networks available on Apple’s U.S. iTunes Store.
As the noted today by the Italian-language Website setteB.IT, some shows that are broadcast on NBC are still available on U.S. iTunes Store because they are produced from other Hollywood studios, like 20th Century Fox, ABC, Disney, Viacom, etc.
Full article (Google Italian-English translation) here.
Hey, NBC’s move wouldn’t have anything to do with MS part of it MSNBC?)
Would it?
What Dumbasses. Good Riddens!!!!!
Pete:
“It’s not that NBC doesn’t want your money, it’s more like not enough people are paying to make it worth their effort.
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Steve Jobs said something like TV Shows on iTMS was a experiment, because basically it’s a lot of hassle and only a minority of computer user types may actually pay and download for commercial free content.”
– Effort? What effort?
– Steve jobs said it was an experiment…
– he did not say it was because it was because a “minority of computer user types may actually pay and download for commercial free content.”
Your logic seems to be that NBC must do a lot work to provide the iTunes Store content and that they are not selling much, so why do the work?
The reality is that NBC probably does not have to do much but transfer a file to Apple. This is really about NBC wanting more control over pricing and fear that Apple will do the same to the networks/studios what they did to the music labels. BTW, the networks/studios & labels think that is driving sales of iPods by using their content. The reality is that iTunes Store breaks the content providers paradigms by giving consumers control.
The streaming shows at the network websites give them a warm fuzzy because it is still ad-driven and they understand that. They do not understand the commercial free content in any other way than “well, if we charge twice as much, we can make more money”. It may be unfair, but the truth is that consumers do have the alternative of piracy that means that they will not pay exorbitant prices.
Good luck, NBC. Maybe selling shows for $3.99 and episode at Amazon will work out for you. After all, consumers really want to pay more for an entire season of low-res copies of episodes than they would for the entire DVD. Really.
Hey, NBC’s move wouldn’t have anything to do with MS part of it MSNBC?)
Would it?
No.
Sounds like NBC grew some and told you peeps to go stuff. By the way NBC pulle their content, didnt like being held hostage by the nazi Steve Jobs
Well I went to NBC and tried to watch a 30 rock show–yuck!
Every time there is a pause in the show they stick in a 30 sec commercial. so Yaboo had it right!
no thanks NBC would rather pay 1.99 and then watch it whenever I want, wherever I want
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