Roger Fingas
Apple on Wednesday silently updated the Apple TV with another app channel, CNNgo, to provide users with live and on-demand video from the news network.
As with the CNNgo website and iPhone and iPad apps, live video is gated behind a cable or satellite subscription. Some authentication options include Cox, Dish, DirecTV, AT&T U-verse, and Verizon FiOS. All viewers should be able to access on-demand video via Apple TV.
The app's interface is divided into Featured, Live TV, Shows, and Must See sections. Some unique features in each area include a programming schedule under Live TV, and categories, such as politics and top news, under Must See.
Just yesterday, the Apple TV was updated with channels for TED, Tastemade, and Young Hollywood. In the past two years, Apple has dramatically accelerated the pace with which channels are added.
The push could be connected to Apple's rumored subscription TV service which is said to launch this fall. The company is also believed to be working on new Apple TV hardware, with Siri, a faster processor, and more storage, the latter needed because of a future App Store.
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It is starting to happen, one by one Apple is gaining significant content that people will want to watch.
"...gated behind a cable or satellite subscription." Delete.
"%u2026gated behind a cable or satellite subscription." Delete.
It starts to get interesting now. If all these channels that are offered on the Apple TV that are accessible only via a cable or sat subscription, open up when you switch to the upcoming Apple subscription, that will be pulling the rug out from underneath cable and sat companies. However, I still have to say that the vast majority of the channels currently offered on Apple TV, Roku or the like are of absolutely no interest to me regardless of price.
When will Apple TV have some sort of Keychain system? The Apple TV should just 'know' if a user has a cable provider once the data is added a single time. Enough with this having to go to web sites and typing in codes for every damn channel. That said, if CNNGo requires a subscription from elsewhere forget it. This is 2015 get with the program CNN we want to cut the cable..
[quote name="scampercom" url="/t/185414/apple-tv-adds-cnngo-for-live-and-on-demand-news-video#post_2697950"]"...gated behind a cable or satellite subscription." Delete.[/quote] Agreed.