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Wednesday, December 12, 2007, 09:00 am
Apple announces television content on iTunes Canada
As expected, Apple on Wednesday announced that hit television programming from Canada’s top networks, US broadcasters and the National Hockey League (NHL) is now available for CAN$1.99 per episode from the iTunes Store in Canada.iTunes customers can choose from Canadian-produced favorites such as the award-winning “Corner Gas” from CTV, smash hit comedy “Little Mosque on the Prairie” from CBC, Emmy and Peabody Award-winning “South Park” from Comedy Central and the NHL Games of the Year.
“We’re thrilled to bring television programming to the iTunes Store in Canada in time for the holiday season,” said Eddy Cue, Apple’s vice president of iTunes. “We’re off to a great start with hit shows from CBC, CTV, Comedy Central and MTV Networks, along with the best of classic and current NHL action.”
Television shows purchased and downloaded from the iTunes Store Canada can be viewed on a PC or Mac, iPod nano with video, fifth generation iPod, iPod classic or on a widescreen TV with Apple TV. Television programming on the iTunes Store in Canada includes:
- CBC’s comedy programs “Little Mosque on the Prairie” and “The Rick Mercer Report,” reality programming “No Opportunity Wasted” and “Dragon’s Den;”
- CTV’s smash hit comedy “Corner Gas,” dramas “Instant Star,” “Degrassi: The Next Generation” and “Robson Arms;”
- Comedy Central’s “Drawn Together,” “The Sarah Silverman Program” and Emmy and Peabody Award-winning “South Park;”
- MTV Networks programs “Avatar: The Last Airbender” and “The Hills;” and
- NHL Games of the Year, including top NHL games in their entirety for the 2007-2008 season, as well as Stanley Cup Classics, a five-game bundle of great Stanley Cup Final games.
Reports that Apple was ready to launch TV programming on the iTunes Store Canada were first reported late Monday by ArsTechnica.
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FUUUUUUUU---inaly....
Edit: 1.99 for a classic 2 hours of NHL. Great deal. Go! Oilers! Go! Edit Edit: They have the Philly 57 feed rather than CBC? hmm....
A nice little selection to start with. I expect there is plenty more to come. Will be interesting to see in CTV adds shows they license from US Networks down the road and if Global joins up and offers same. I would hope to see more NHL classics eventually as well. Nice start and a welcome step for us up here. Movies will hopefully follow soon and one can see the little pieces being put in place ahead of the iPhone's imminent announcement.
Stu
Wow, three posts in and no complaint about the missing Canadian iPhone...a new world record!
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Wow, three posts in and no complaint about the missing Canadian iPhone...a new world record!
Wow, three posts in and no complaint about the missing Canadian iPhone...a new world record!
I let my tag do the complaining...
Can anyone in the US confirm if the Canadian shows (e.g. Corner Gas) are available to US iTunes customers? I still think this is a way for iTunes to get new content in the US during a writers strike.
What?! No iPhone announcement!!!?
ah just kidding. I have decided to just not think about the iPhone so I don't get upset.
Listen up All Canadian Store users!!! Support this! Buy some shows early on. Give them an indicator that this will succeed so that other content providers are encouraged and make NBC come crawling back. the iTunes Music Store is the best business model out there and it will only succeed if we support it.
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Seems the right kind of deal for Apple... Go alternative. Leave the big players and make small deals with big country wide operators in other countries. That will stengthen iTunes video enough to make NBC and the others think about coming back to the table.
I have the impression that, so far, we heard a lot of what NBC is doing after the stop of negotiations. Finally we start to see that Apple isn't sleeping either. They go to Canada, grab good contracts for interesting shows and there you have it.
Interesting strategy and intersting turn of events. I hope the companies will sit down together in the future and work out a deal so that the sales of video on iTunes can increase like they should.
Of course having HD programming and selling it in some other countries (Switzerland, where we make the "one hundred dollar bill iPod Touch stands" cough cough) would be BETTER, at least from my perspective.
Seems the right kind of deal for Apple... Go alternative. Leave the big players and make small deals with big country wide operators in other countries. That will stengthen iTunes video enough to make NBC and the others think about coming back to the table.
I have the impression that, so far, we heard a lot of what NBC is doing after the stop of negotiations. Finally we start to see that Apple isn't sleeping either. They go to Canada, grab good contracts for interesting shows and there you have it.
Interesting strategy and intersting turn of events. I hope the companies will sit down together in the future and work out a deal so that the sales of video on iTunes can increase like they should.
Of course having HD programming and selling it in some other countries (Switzerland, where we make the "one hundred dollar bill iPod Touch stands" cough cough) would be BETTER, at least from my perspective.
I said it once before and I'll say it again, have one centralized iTunes, call it the iTunes International Store. Have programming from US - North America, Central and South America countries programming, Europe and Asia and Africa too. Apple wouldn't need every thing ever produced. But a few shows from a lot of different countries that may appeal to a lot of US buyers since USA is the "melting pot" would go along way regarding diversity and would show just how miniscule NBC really is in the grand scheme of things.
What no iPhone announcement in Canada?!
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Originally Posted by Rot'nApple
What no iPhone announcement in Canada?!
What no iPhone announcement in Canada?!
Soon. Imminent. Announcement supposed to be coming before Christmas...
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Originally Posted by stuhowe
Soon. Imminent. Annoucement supposed to be coming before Christmas...
Soon. Imminent. Annoucement supposed to be coming before Christmas...
Then we can hear about how Rogers "suxors".
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Originally Posted by stuhowe
A nice little selection to start with. I expect there is plenty more to come. Will be interesting to see in CTV adds shows they license from US Networks down the road and if Global joins up and offers same.
A nice little selection to start with. I expect there is plenty more to come. Will be interesting to see in CTV adds shows they license from US Networks down the road and if Global joins up and offers same.
It seems to me that it's the content producer, not the broadcaster, that's going to have the final say in those situations. For example, consider that House was pulled along with all the other programming produced in-house by NBC-Universal, despite the fact that it is exclusively broadcast by Fox.
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Seems the right kind of deal for Apple... Go alternative. Leave the big players and make small deals with big country wide operators in other countries. That will stengthen iTunes video enough to make NBC and the others think about coming back to the table.
I have the impression that, so far, we heard a lot of what NBC is doing after the stop of negotiations. Finally we start to see that Apple isn't sleeping either. They go to Canada, grab good contracts for interesting shows and there you have it.
Interesting strategy and intersting turn of events. I hope the companies will sit down together in the future and work out a deal so that the sales of video on iTunes can increase like they should.
Of course having HD programming and selling it in some other countries (Switzerland, where we make the "one hundred dollar bill iPod Touch stands" cough cough) would be BETTER, at least from my perspective.