On September 9, 2009
News Corp. Touts Paid Model for Hulu Again, But Where Are the Other Networks?
News Corp., the traditional media company that seems to be taking a paid online content model the most seriously, is once again talking up the possibility of bringing a paid model to video site Hulu — a paid model as in consumers, not advertisers, would pay for some of the content on the site. This time, the News Corp. exec who brought the subject up was president/COO Chase Carey, not merely chief digital officer Jon Miller, who floated the idea several months ago just before meeting with other members of the joint venture, which include NBC Universal and Disney/ABC, for the first time. Carey addressed the subject today at a conference being put on by Bank of America-Merrill Lynch. The…
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