“Time Warner Cable subscribers will soon have another way to stream ‘The Daily Show With Jon Stewart’ and ‘Jersey Shore’ on iPads,” Amy Chozick reports for The New York Times.
“The breakthrough comes as a result of a settlement between Time Warner Cable and Viacom, which owns cable channels like Comedy Central, Nickelodeon, MTV and others,” Chozick reports. “For months there had been a heated dispute over whether the cable company should have access to Viacom programs through its TWCable TV app.”
Chozick reports, “On Wednesday, Viacom said that the companies had agreed ‘to resolve their pending litigations’ and that ‘all of Viacom’s programming will now be available to Time Warner Cable subscribers for in-home viewing via Internet protocol-enabled devices such as iPads.'”
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Fred Mertz” and “David E.” for the heads up.]
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