Disney signs onto Hulu
Disney's ABC Enterprises announced Thursday that it has entered into online-video joint venture Hulu, currently a partnership between NBC Universal, News Corp., and investor Providence Equity Partners.
This means that TV shows from Disney-owned channels like ABC, SoapNet, and ABC Family will be coming to Hulu. Among them are "Lost," "Grey's Anatomy," "Ugly Betty," and "Scrubs." There will also be Disney movies available on the ad-supported streaming video site, but a press release did not name any of them. Content will be available "soon," the press release explained.
Reports started to surface about a month ago that Disney was in talks to join Hulu.
Robert Iger, president and CEO of the Walt Disney Company, will take a seat on Hulu's board of directors, along with Anne Sweeney, co-chair of Disney Media Networks and president of the Disney/ABC Television Group, and Kevin Mayer, executive vice president of corporate strategy, business development, and technology at Disney.
ABC already streams a significant amount of television content on ABC.com, and Disney-owned television and video content was some of the first to make an appearance in the iTunes Store's video download section.
Apple CEO Steve Jobs is Disney's single biggest shareholder, having sold animation studio Pixar to the company in 2006.
This post was expanded at 8:15 a.m. PT.
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Can't wait to see Disney-owned shows start to pop up on Hulu.
What a bummer....
If so...it may be your video card.
I've tried doing that on my Macbook, with the same choppy result, but it works perfectly on my upgraded PC, as well as on my college lab computers, which have even bigger monitors.
- by Dalkorian May 1, 2009 10:17 AM PDT
- The evil empire has again grown .... cue the Imperial Death March.
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