Apple has considered adopting new business models for delivering video, including a subscription TV service, media executives said last year.
In addition, Sky has entered a separate agreement with Universal Networks International (UNI) to extend the availability of UNI's television channels on Sky's subscription TV packages.
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Launched amid great publicity in 1993 as a subscription TV network offering CNN, the ESPN sports channel, Discovery Channel and HBO, it attracted fewer than 20, 000 customers.
Prison Reform Trust director Juliet Lyon said it was "perfectly reasonable" to remove subscription TV channels but there was no evidence to suggest that a "so-called tough approach" would improve rehabilitation.
Subscription mobile TV hasn't been a stellar performer in any American or European market, and it's entirely possible that Verizon would consider letting its data network shoulder the video burden going forward -- especially as LTE comes to fruition.
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It has also broached the idea of licensing content directly from media companies for some sort of subscription-TV service, resembling the packages offered now by cable operators, but the talks have been "exploratory, " according to people familiar with the matter.
The agreement spans the first subscription pay TV and pay-per-view windows, enabling Sky Movies to show releases from Entertainment Film Distributors across its On Demand service and channels, and on a rental basis via Sky Store and Sky Movies Box Office.
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In addition to the launch of the new channel, the agreement gives Sky Movies the first subscription pay TV movie rights in the UK and Ireland to other titles distributed by Disney, including new movies from Lucasfilm, and also Marvel Studios features such as Iron Man 3 and Avengers Assemble, which will be broadcast across the Sky Movies portfolio of channels.
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The thing that kept him from an honor violation was that he paid for his own cable TV subscription.
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Downside: viewing is still subject to the same annoying blackout rules determined by your cable, satellite or telco TV subscription.
Animation's Green Lantern will become available on the popular "Just for Kids" section of the world's leading Internet TV subscription service.
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For example, you can sit at home and pay to top-up your electricity meter or pay your cable TV subscription using Paga.
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Mr. Ergen, 59 years old, says four of his five children have stopped paying for a TV subscription, and the fifth is living home.
With the above, an average viewer can watch free broadcast content with high quality picture and still potentially save money compared to average pay-TV subscription service.
One option would be for Epix to focus solely on its ability to show movies online and across other platforms and sell itself as a non-TV subscription service.
Rising TV subscription fees plumped up profits at Time Warner.
That deal, set to expire early next year, has been derided in the pay-TV industry as one that dilutes the value of programming and risks cannibalizing the pay-TV subscription business.
Now the world's leading Internet subscription service for TV and movies, Netflix has been streaming to millions of U.S. members since 2007, adding Canada in 2010, Latin America in 2011 and the UK and Ireland in early 2012.
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Though companies like Netflix and Hulu have a very minimal subscription fee, their TV content is limited for the time being but growing quickly.
The TV Everywhere initiative by cable providers is an attempt to retain subscribers by offering a choice of free on-demand viewing over the internet on the condition of subscription to their pay TV services.
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At the same time, Apple pitched media companies on a "best of TV" subscription service to television networks under which customers would pay a monthly fee for on-demand access to programs from a bundle of participating TV networks, giving consumers another way to readily access television content.
This is required to verify their HBO subscription (or any other TV Everywhere offering).
Our deals with iconic studios like Aardman make us the number one subscription service for films and TV series.
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Sony Worldwide Studios head Shuhei Yoshida speculated that in the future, the company might use a subscription service not unlike cable TV.
This is the latest TV content deal with a major US Studio to be announced by LOVEFiLM - Europe's leading TV and movie subscription service.
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For pay-TV providers such as Comcast, Time Warner Cable and others, the move is not a threat as the customers are required to have ESPN subscription on their pay-TV service.
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Once on Sky Movies, the films will be available on the service for more than a year, during which time they will not be available on any other TV channel or subscription service.
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Available without a subscription, CinemaNow gives WD TV users access to new-release movies, the same day they come out on DVD, and brings viewers TV episodes for many popular shows the day after they air.
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