Monday, August 14, 2006

NewsCorp to Offer Free Downloads of TV Shows

It seems that NewsCorp is leveraging the crap out of its newly acquired Internet properties.

Not only will people be able to buy shows like 24 and movies like The Omen
through MySpace and other News Corp. sites, but also they will be able to
download them to any device that runs Microsoft's (Nasdaq:
MSFT
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News) Windows operating system. TV shows will be available for $1.99 a pop, and movies will cost about $20.

They are even using the Direct2Drive technology that they acquired when they bought IGN to deliver the content. I wonder what other things they have in store for MySpace and their other internet properties? It seems that NewsCorp could be the next big player in internet media by following IAC Interactive's model.

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