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Network TV Downloadable Via iTunes

Posted by Zonk on from the television-catches-up-with-the-rest-of-us dept.

IconBasedIdea writes "Dallas Mavericks owner and opinionated media entrepreneur Mark Cuban blogs about Walt Disney cheese Robert Iger, and his recent deal with iTunes to allow TV episodes to become available for purchase and download. Granted, it was only a matter of time, but someone had to go first, and it is apparently ABC. Could this help niche shows stay alive longer? Will it kill traditional TV ads, long on the downswing of effectiveness? Will we end up eventually paying (or stealing) all of our future programming?"

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  1. Re:Water is free but they bottle & charge for by goombah99 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Since when is water free? Not the kind you drink in town. Maybe if you ladel some out of the mississippi. Even well water is not free--you bought it when you bought the land. the only free water is rain.

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  2. episode previews by minus_273 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    anyone else unable to watch episode previews in itunes? Jobs seemed to do it really easily all i get is a brief freeze in the application then nothing.

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