NBC is officially out of the iTunes Store
Back in late August, Apple and NBC began fighting over pricing because NBC wanted their shows to be priced higher. Apple said no and they stood their ground, and as soon as their contract was up, Apple would remove them from iTunes. The contract was set to expire in December, and Apple made good on their word and took all of the NBC content out of iTunes.
Since NBC is now gone, that also means other broadcasting from Bravo, mun2, NBC News, CNBC, NBC Sports, Sci Fi, Sleuth, Telemundo and the USA Network are also gone. You can still watch NBC shows on their own download service called NBC Direct or you can watch some shows on Hulu. I think that NBC shouldn’t have done this because to me, NBC Direct isn’t all that good.
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I have a feeling this is going to hurt iTunes much more than NBC. There are a lot of programs I can imagine get a high amount of downloads on the NBC network. Especially some of the cable channels like Bravo.
on December 3, 2007 at 11:11 PM - LINKWow, I hadn’t noticed. I really don’t download shows fro iTunes, but I really am happy that Apple has the customer in mind.
on December 4, 2007 at 01:24 AM - LINK