“Apple Inc. is nearing a deal with Time Warner Cable Inc. to give subscribers of the cable television service access to channels via Apple TV, people with knowledge of the negotiations said,” Adam Satariano and Alex Sherman report for Bloomberg News.
“The companies plan to announce an agreement within a few months, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the talks are private,” Satariano and Sherman report. “The iPhone maker is also hiring Pete Distad from online-video service Hulu LLC, where he was senior vice president in charge of marketing and distribution, to help Apple executives in negotiations with media and cable companies, two people with familiar with the matter said.”
Satariano and Sherman report, “The potential deal with Time Warner Cable shows Apple working within the existing pay-TV business model, rather than directly offering live TV programming… Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO, said in May that more than 13 million Apple TVs have been sold since the device was released in 2007. Television is an area of ‘intense interest’ to Apple, Cook said.”
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Give me the option to watch the channels I want to watch without paying for the garbage I don’t want…and do all this without having to pay the Time Warner Cable middleman!
The Cable Companies are the PROBLEM, not the solution.
Yeah, and just like with the music industry, Apple will have to work with the problem enough to get a foothold if they expect TV to go anywhere for them.
8 bucks a month. That’s what I am willing to pay for any one video subscription.
“Any day now, any day…i shall be released”
Woo-hoo! HD cable in my bedroom without having to pay for another box! What a deal!
Er, uh, I mean — Down with the oppressive cable companies! Cut the cord! Yeah, that’s what I meant to say…
——RM
Nice.