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ABC/Disney partners with Hulu to show ABC shows

Audio/Video, Home Theater, Networking & Internet / By Khalid Hosein / April 30, 2009

After months of negotiations, Disney (ABC) has agreed to take a stake in Hulu, NBC’s online video website and thus also air their shows on hulu.com. Fans of Lost Grey’s Anatomy, Desperate Housewives, and so on can now see full episodes online legally for free with an ad or two thrown in for revenue.

While Greg Sandoval at CNET seems to think this will hurt YouTube, I don’t think that’s about to happen just yet. Sure, this is an important deal as YouTube tries to reform its model to include more industry-approved content, but YouTube is a household name with over 10 times the traffic currently.

CES 2009: Blogging at NBC Universal’s booth – more photos

CES / By Khalid Hosein / January 15, 2009

Here are a few more photos from our time blogging at the NBC Universal booth at CES. Here I am chatting with Bill Hartnett, Senior VP at NBCU, who was kind enough to take time out to discuss why NBC feels it’s important to be present at a trade show such as CES.

Chief Gizmateer twittering away. 🙂

#CES09: Blogging at NBC Universal’s Booth

CES, Miscellaneous / By Khalid Hosein / January 10, 2009

Jon Accarrino and NBC Universal were kind enough to host us at their blogging booth again this year. NBC certainly stepped it up another notch after their first appearance at CES last year. The booth is even bigger and they aired even more live TV segments from right here in the Las Vegas Convention Center. Also nice for us bloggers was the larger blogging section, the This year, they’ve also featured Microsoft Surface Tables which visitors can play with. Nice touch.

The NBC Universal Booth
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