NBC pulls out of iTunes

31Aug07

With its new fall lineup just around the corner, NBC has said it won’t renew its contract with Apple to sell shows on iTunes.
Sources told the New York Times that videos already being sold online won’t be pulled “for several months,” at least not until the contract runs up in December. That means fans of [...]

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Web venture named “Hulu”

29Aug07

What’s in a name? Don’t look to NBC Universal or News Corp. for answers. The two media conglomerates, who teamed up five months ago to launch what is basically a higher-end version of YouTube, unveiled the name of their web effort today, and it goes by the name of “Hulu.”
Will “Hulu” earn a spot on [...]

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