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Tuesday, September 11, 2007, 09:55 am
NewsCorp (Fox) says it won't join NBC's iTunes walkout
NewsCorp., which umbrellas Fox TV, will not pull its television shows from Apple Inc.'s iTunes Store as rival media group NBC Universal has done over a pricing dispute, a company executive said Tuesday.In an interview with Reuters, NewsCorp President and chief operating officer Peter Chernin said Rupert Murdoch's media group was not in a dispute with Apple, but would like a bigger voice in pricing its shows.
"Right now we have a perfectly good relationship with Apple," he said. "But let me say this, we're the ones who should determine what the fair price for our product is, not Apple."
Some industry watchers had expected NewsCorp and other media groups to follow the lead of NBC Universal, which said last month it would not extend its agreement to sell television shows on the Apple download service because it wanted more flexibility in offering different packages and pricing.
Reuters reports that NewsCorp's decision to keep popular Fox shows such as 24 and Prison Break on iTunes should be welcomed by Apple chief executive Steve Jobs, who is facing growing opposition from media companies over who should mandate the pricing structures for their original content.
Following a standoff in negotiations earlier this summer, Universal Music Group of Vivendi -- the world’s biggest music label -- said it would not renew its annual contract to sell music through iTunes. Instead, Universal said it would market music to Apple at will, allowing it to yank its songs from the iTunes service on short notice if the two sides do not agree on pricing or other terms in the future.
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The extremely biased nature of the value of a television program contrasting the production company's wants and the consumers' desires stipulates that all programs should cost the same, otherwise, you're making the judgement call for someone else on what it is worth to them. That is hogwash, hogwash I say! I hope youtube succeeds to the extent that all media becomes virtually free. Before television people were social and entertained each other, now we get to pay a faceless entity for mindless ADD relief.
I don't understand the AI writer's aversion to actually linking to the sources of their stories. For news posted on other web stories, there is no legitimate reason not to that I am aware. However, AI writers do seem pretty happy to link to other AI stories. That's awfully petty for people posing as journalists.
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In an interview with Reuters, NewsCorp President and chief operating officer Peter Chernin said Rupert Murdoch's media group was not in a dispute with Apple, but would like a bigger voice in pricing its shows.
"Right now we have a perfectly good relationship with Apple," he said. "But let me say this, we're the ones who should determine what the fair price for our product is, not Apple."
Actually, is it not the consumers that will determine the fair price of their product? I mean NewsCorps, NBC and others have the right to value their product at a pricing structure other than what Apple believes is fair, but in the end, is it not I, the customer, that makes the ultimate decision by purchasing their download or not?!
The extremely biased nature of the value of a television program contrasting the production company's wants and the consumers' desires stipulates that all programs should cost the same, otherwise, you're making the judgement call for someone else on what it is worth to them. That is hogwash, hogwash I say!
I'll call that a non-sequitur. It's a market economy, the seller can try to sell at the price they want, if a buyer doesn't think it's worth the asking price, then the buyer can buy something else or nothing at all. The buyer doesn't have to buy any given show or any show at all.
I think YouTube-type sites would make the ADD problem even worse.
if it's not on iTunes, I'll get it for free from somewhere else.
It's an interesting position...
Yes Fox/NBC/etc should have the right to charge whatever they want, and if people choose not to buy it then unlucky for them.
Yes Apple has had great success by offering a simple model - one price fits all. This also where that price is probably lower than what the networks would like to charge.
Apple is not just mediating the market between the producers and the consumers though - it is CREATING a market. If Apple doesn't do it eventually some similar system will emerge, but that something will take longer and be more complex and will likely be more highly priced (to start with) and heavily controlled. And Apple will have little say in it.
So Apple wants to make this succeed and is doing their best to push the networks into the model they believe can make it happen. And other providers are copying Apple's general models by and large, it seems.
if it's not on iTunes, I'll get it for free from somewhere else.
Exactly. Thank you.
That's precisely how I, and most of my friends, feel about this whole deal. iTunes is really the only place we feel okay with spending money on digital content. If I'm not buying it on iTunes, I'm getting it free, or buying it physically in a music/video store.
I have a feeling we're not the only ones.
Actually, is it not the consumers that will determine the fair price of their product? I mean NewsCorps, NBC and others have the right to value their product at a pricing structure other than what Apple believes is fair, but in the end, is it not I, the customer, that makes the ultimate decision by purchasing their download or not?!
Hear, Hear!!
most of these sites should get there facts straight because NBC its not leaving apple or its walking out, there not happy with each other but Nbc its never goin to pull there stuff from iTunes its just that they wanna be free to explore new grounds if they so choose to it, with out being attach to a long contract
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I don't understand the AI writer's aversion to actually linking to the sources of their stories. For news posted on other web stories, there is no legitimate reason not to that I am aware. However, AI writers do seem pretty happy to link to other AI stories. That's awfully petty for people posing as journalists.
Link:
http://www.reuters.com/article/merge...53262920070911