Viacom To Launch Its Own Streaming Service this Year (techcrunch.com)

Viacom said today it's planning to launch its own ad-supported streaming service by September 2018, the end of its fiscal year. The service will include "tens of thousands of hours of content" from across Viacom's library. From a report: Viacom had hinted about its plans in streaming before, but it shared a few more details on the call about what the service will include. The company, which owns cable TV channels like MTV and Comedy Central, already licenses some of its content to other streaming services like Sling TV and DirecTV Now, as well as newcomer Philo. "It's going to be rolled out in the U.S., in terms of the amount of content that it's going to have, it's going to have tens of thousands of hours of content that cut across the library we have on a global basis," the company said.

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Re:More segmentation . . .

[torkus]

Someone should put together a network of all these streaming services!

They can negotiate access to each service on a large scale basis and show savings as a whole. Then...get this!!!...combine all those streaming services - call then 'channels' - into a single platform and sell it to people at a single price point lower than having to get each one individually. They could have a single, standard interface, single bill, single helpdesk and since it's such a broad offering they'd even have the resources to build a dedicated device that perfectly meets the requirements and provides the best service possible.

Since all this is coming over network cabling...why don't we call them 'cable companies' and they can offer 'cable television service' to us? Wouldn't that be great??? A single platform with all the content and a single bill much smaller than buying anything individually? And no need to look for 'free streams' of anything that might be of questionable quality.

Oh oh oh ... and maybe since we're paying them money for all this they won't even need to have commercials! They'll make all their money off direct payment instead of advertising. /sigh...