FOX ready to put shows online

from yahoo

Fox will put TV reruns on the Internet: report

NEW YORK (Reuters) - News Corp.'s Fox network has signed a six-year
agreement with its 187 affiliated stations that will let it show
reruns of its television programs on the Internet, the Wall Street
Journal reported on its Web site on Thursday.

The revenue-sharing agreement allows Fox to make 60 percent of its
prime-time schedule available online the morning after the shows air,
the Journal reported.

The formula is complex, but stations essentially will get a 12.5
percent cut after costs, the paper also reported.

A News Corp. spokesman was not immediately available for comment.

Fox is the home of hit programs such as "American Idol" and "The
Simpsons," and is the latest television network to take a shot at
making its programming available online as more people turn to the
Internet for entertainment.

Walt Disney Co.'s ABC television network announcement earlier this
week that it will offer some of its most popular shows, including
"Desperate Housewives" and "Lost," for free on an
advertising-supported Web service.

It also comes after CBS Corp. made the " March Madness" NCAA
college basketball playoff games available online.

General Electric Co.'s NBC last December started offering programs for
sale on Apple Computer Inc.'s iTunes downloading service.

Patrick Joseph McNamara...

Which is ridiculous since the network is carried in Canada. If they want
something like this to work they MUST allow international access, otherwise
Bitorrent will win out.