ABC News Launches Subscription Service
NEW YORK (Business Wire) -- Missed last night's "World News Tonight?" Want to watch that exclusive Bar-bara Walters interview with your broadband connection? Now you can with "ABC News On Demand," avail-able exclusively through ABCNews.com. "ABC News On Demand" brings ABC News coverage, exclusively-cut segments, and multimedia streams to the computer so subscribers can get the news at their convenience. "ABC News On Demand" launches today. Via RealOne SuperPass, ABCNews.com already offers ABC News' "World News Tonight" and "Nightline" in their entirety, as well as high-bandwidth quality of all live video streams. After offering this content for nearly a year, ABC News has increased its broadband offerings that are available with these packages:
· "ABC News On Demand" -- priced at $4.95/month, offers: "World News Tonight with Peter Jennings," "Nightline," and "Nightline UpClose" in their entirety, the morning after the live broadcast, including 30 days of archived shows; "Good Morning America" exclusive celebrity interviews and music performances; producer's cuts from "Primetime" and "20/20," featuring Internet-exclusive video; excerpts from ABC News specials; Sam Donaldson's radio show "Live in America"; "Best of Nightline" interviews and segments; ABC News Radio's updated hourly newscasts and Bill Diehl's weekly movie reviews.
· "RealOne SuperPass" - priced at $9.95/month, offers: all content from "ABC News On Demand"; PLUS all of RealOne premium news, sports and entertainment programming from: MLB Advanced Media, NAS-CAR.com, FOXSports.com, E! Networks, NBA, iFilm and more.
RealNetworks has more than 750,000 paying subscribers to its premium subscription services. It is the fastest growing Internet paid media subscription service in history.
NEW YORK (Business Wire) -- Missed last night's "World News Tonight?" Want to watch that exclusive Bar-bara Walters interview with your broadband connection? Now you can with "ABC News On Demand," avail-able exclusively through ABCNews.com. "ABC News On Demand" brings ABC News coverage, exclusively-cut segments, and multimedia streams to the computer so subscribers can get the news at their convenience. "ABC News On Demand" launches today. Via RealOne SuperPass, ABCNews.com already offers ABC News' "World News Tonight" and "Nightline" in their entirety, as well as high-bandwidth quality of all live video streams. After offering this content for nearly a year, ABC News has increased its broadband offerings that are available with these packages:
· "ABC News On Demand" -- priced at $4.95/month, offers: "World News Tonight with Peter Jennings," "Nightline," and "Nightline UpClose" in their entirety, the morning after the live broadcast, including 30 days of archived shows; "Good Morning America" exclusive celebrity interviews and music performances; producer's cuts from "Primetime" and "20/20," featuring Internet-exclusive video; excerpts from ABC News specials; Sam Donaldson's radio show "Live in America"; "Best of Nightline" interviews and segments; ABC News Radio's updated hourly newscasts and Bill Diehl's weekly movie reviews.
· "RealOne SuperPass" - priced at $9.95/month, offers: all content from "ABC News On Demand"; PLUS all of RealOne premium news, sports and entertainment programming from: MLB Advanced Media, NAS-CAR.com, FOXSports.com, E! Networks, NBA, iFilm and more.
RealNetworks has more than 750,000 paying subscribers to its premium subscription services. It is the fastest growing Internet paid media subscription service in history.
