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Apple's iTunes Pitch: TV for $30 a Month http://bit.ly/38MKgx 8 days ago |
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Would you pay $30 a month to watch TV via iTunes? http://bit.ly/1Faxv1 Why? When for now I can get it all for free on the Internet 12 days ago |
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Apple’s iTunes TV for $30 a Month sound tempting :D:D http://bit.ly/3JkbAx 13 days ago |
Apple Wants iTunes to Replace Your Cable Box for 30 Bucks a Month [Rumor]
Gizmodo —
... Apple's apparently pitching to networks a subscription plan that would deliver all your TV shows through iTunes for $30 a month, with the goal of launching it next year. ...
Apple pitches $30-a-month iTunes TV subscriptions - report
AppleInsider —
... Published: 12:10 PM EST Apple has reportedly reached out to TV networks in recent weeks with a proposed $30-per-month subscription plan to deliver content via iTunes -- a service it hopes to launch in early 2010. Citing multiple sources, Peter Kafka at MediaMemo said Apple's subscription proposal is not based on any specific piece of hardware, like the Apple TV or forthcoming tablet. Rather, the plan would stick with the existing iTunes desktop software. "Apple has told industry executives it wants to launch the service early next year," the report said, "but I have yet ...
Apple pitching TV networks $30 monthly subscription service for iTunes TV programs
MacDailyNews —
... as an extension of its iTunes software, which already has a huge installed base. "A so-called 'over the top' service could theoretically rival the ones most consumers already buy from cable TV operators — if Apple is able to get enough buy-in from broadcast and cable TV programmers," Kafka reports. "Network executives I’ve talked to are intrigued with the idea — they are eager to find new revenue streams — but are also wary, for multiple reasons." More details in the full article here . ...
Apple Pitching iTunes TV for $30 a Month
TheAppleBlog —
... Big Cable has just been given a lot more to worry about in a landscape that is already rapidly changing under its feet. All Things D is saying that Apple has been shopping around a subscription-based model for video content to TV networks recently, and it looks to be a fairly attractive deal from a consumer standpoint. It probably doesn’t look too shabby to networks, either, since it will help them stay relevant as more users turn away from their cable and satellite boxes and towards their computers. ...
Apple iTunes $30/month bid to take-on Hulu and cable
9 to 5 Mac - Apple Intelligence —
... Seems this chatter’s back again, with Peter Kafka’s MediaMemo claiming Apple to have been in talks with TV networks in an attempt to put together a $30 all-you-can-eat TV subscription service. ...
$30 a Month iTunes TV Show Subscriptions?
The iPhone Blog —
... MediaMemo is hearing that Apple Internet exec, Eddy Cue, has been tasked with exploring a $30/month iTunes TV Show subscription service: ...
Apple Pitching $30 iTunes Movie Subscriptions
Cult of Mac —
... accounts. Disney is most likely to take Apple up on its subscription plan because of the tight cooperation the two companies have developed. Disney became the first studio to sell programming via iTunes in 2005. After the studio bought Steve Jobs’ animation house Pixar, the Apple CEO became Disney’s largest single shareholder. In August, Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster predicted Apple could unveil a subscription TV plan that would appear for between $30 and $40 per month. [Via MediaMemo and ...
Apple Pitching $30/Month iTunes TV
EverythingiCafe —
... According to MediaMemo, Apple has been shopping around TV studios, trying to drum up support for a $30 per month TV over iTunes service. Apparently, this would be entirely separate from the recently updated Apple TV, but rather part of iTunes, an extension of its current abilities (iTunes X maybe?). ...
Report: Apple pitching TV subscription service to networks
Macworld —
... in the digital age. According to a report at All Things Digital , Apple has been floating a $30 per month television subscription service to content owners. That’s the pitch Apple has been making to TV networks in recent weeks. The company is trying to round up support for a monthly subscription service that would deliver TV programs via its multimedia software, multiple sources tell me. Of course, content providers are notoriously resistant to change—doing a three-point turn on an African elephant is probably faster. The entrenched business model has networks making ...
Apple To Reinvent Apple TV...For The Rest Of Us
Byte of the Apple - BusinessWeek —
... According to All Things Digital's Peter Kafka, Apple has been trying to convince programmerrs to make their shows available as part of a subscription, available via iTunes. The monthly price would be around $30, he reports. ...
Apple pitching "all you can watch for $30 a month" TV to networks
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) —
Filed under: Rumors, Video, AppleApple is already the huge name in the music business with the iTunes Store, and they've made continual inroads into the application, video, and movie markets as well. But what if Apple also became the content provider of choice for TV?
That idea isn't that far-fetched, according to a blog post by Peter Kafka at the Wall Street Journal's All Things Digital. Kafka reports that Apple has been pitching the concept of $30 monthly TV subscriptions through iTunes to TV networks. ...
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GeekBrief.TV —
... Apple looks to be creating a subscription TV service. You’d pay $30 a month, but will all content providers be on board to give you a complete viewing experience? ...
Vaporware Rumor Would Turn Apple TV Into Cable Box
Podcasting News —
... MediaMemo reports today that Apple is allegedly talking to the TV networks to round up support fr a monthly subscription service that would deliver TV programs via iTunes: ...
$1.9 Billion in Capex? What's Apple Planning?
Digital Daily —
... Sounds plausible. After all, there’s a lot a company like Apple could do with an additional $1.9 billion in capital expenditures. Certainly, an iTunes TV subscription service would require some investment. A ...
Here’s the iTunes TV Subscription I’d Pay For
Technologizer —
... Over at All Things Digital, Peter Kafka is reporting that he’s hearing that hearing that Apple wants to offer a $30 TV subscription service through iTunes, and is trying to stir up interest among content providers. He has very details, but the basic idea of a technology company taking on cable with an Internet-based service appeals to me. (I’ve written in the past of my ...
Apple's $30-Per-Month TV service would fit tablet
Computerworld Blogs - Macintosh & Apple —
MediaMemo today reported that Apple has been shopping a $30/month, all you can watch TV service to the networks that would compete with Hulu and to a lesser extent cable. The service would be built into iTunes and run across all of Apple's products. To me this has tablet written all over it. First of all, I'm not sure what Apple is doing with AppleTV. The hardware is ancient and the ...
Apple's $30-Per-Month TV service would fit tablet
Seth Weintraub's blog —
MediaMemo today reported that Apple has been shopping a $30/month, all you can watch TV service to the networks that would compete with Hulu and to a lesser extent cable. The service would be built into iTunes and run across all of Apple's products. To me this has tablet written all over it. First of all, I'm not sure what Apple is doing with AppleTV. The hardware is ancient and the ...
Apple pitching TV subscription option for iTunes to networks
Infinite Loop —
... According to multiple industry insiders that spoke to All Things Digital, Apple hopes to launch the service early next year. Apple's VP of Internet Services, Eddy Cue, has been charged with drumming up interest among TV networks, though so far none had made a commitment to providing content available for the service. The sources so far are laying odds that Disney is likely to be the first to bite; it was the first studio to ...
iPhone Informer — Touching the iPhone This Week
jkOnTheRun —
... and we talked about the possibility of Apple offering iTunes TV content for $30 a month. I have no idea if Apple is doing that (or planning a slate tablet), but there’s an interesting opportunity when you combine the two mythical ideas. What would you get when you cross a portable 1280 x 720 slate running the iPhone OS with a monthly iTunes all-you-can-eat plan? I’d call it a reasonably compelling product. Not only would you have access to various television content in high-def, but you’d have your music and 100,000 apps for bite-sized functionality too. ...
Weekend Update 11.07.09—Big Trouble in Little China Edition
Digital Daily —
... Media Memo started the week off right with a fresh bite from Apple. Peter covered the revamp of Apple TV, which will now be offered for $30 a month. ...
New Apple TV Subscription Service: Not so Fast, Cautions Forrester's Bobby Tulsiani
Beet.TV —
... Earlier this month, Peter Kafka at MediaMemo reported that Apple has a new initiative to sell broadcast and cable programming via iTunes for a monthly fee of $30. ...
Apple Empowering Users to “Sell” Their Attention to Advertisers for “Free” Stuff
Technology Liberation Front —
... We don’t expect anyone will choose the ads. Because, for a very reasonable monthly fee, you’ll be able to eliminate all those ads and get your content free of all interruptions. How reasonable, you say? Well, let’s say that for $30 a month you could watch all the TV you wanted. Let’s say that we can get all the TV networks, or most of them anyway, on board for this. Let’s say that we give you not just this week’s shows but an enormous archive, one that ultimately includes every TV show ever made. Tear out the cable box, stop paying those assholes $100 or $200 a month, and go ...
