Fox Stations can now stream primetime shows

Filed in archive Business Trends , Internet TV on March 7, 2007

Traci Patterson, CED News/Web Editor, reports that Fox, Fox Interactive Media and Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp. have given their broadcast affiliates the green light to offer some of Fox's top primetime shows via the Web.

The deal will allow more than 200 broadcast network affiliates to offer local viewers the ability to watch or buy Fox shows such as "24," "Prison Break" and "Bones," via affiliate-run Web sites.

New episodes will be posted the night after they premiere on broadcast television. Other shows offered on-demand include "Standoff," "Vanished," "War at Home," "American Dad," and "The Winner."

Under the terms of the deal struck with the FOX affiliate Board of Governors, FOX, FIM, Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp. and the local affiliates will share both transactional and advertising revenues, the companies said.

FOX on Demand will deliver the programming. Previously, FOX on Demand offered an ad-supported, streaming-only platform, but now the service will allow visitors to purchase and download shows for PCs and portable, on-the-go devices, as well.

FOX on Demand has streamed free, full episodes of selected shows on its MySpace page and on 24 of its owned-and-operated MyFOX local Web sites since October 2006.

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