Apple, according to the newspaper the New York Post, will soon announce its own online TV service that allows you to organize broadcasting via the Internet. The company has already reached agreements with major TV channels in the face of ABC, CBS, NBC, 21st Century Fox and now, as noted, is negotiating with local television networks.
The idea for Apple is to offer users a “light” pack of approx 25 popular television channels. Agreements related to the topic supposedly successfully achieved with Walt Disney, CBS Corp., and other media companies.
Meanwhile, is reportedly in negotiations is not involved broadcasting Corporation, NBCUniversal, owned by Comcast. This is due to the differences between the latter and the California giant. Disney and CBS will be one of the first partners of the new project Apple. In the basic subscription will also include the popular Discovery channels and ESPN.
Currently Apple is in talks on creating a lightweight grid of television broadcasting. According to the source, most viewers prefer to pay “a La carte services” channels, instead of all of them broadcasting, most of which they don’t watch.
Television service will be available through the Apple multimedia Apple TV, and mobile iOS devices — iPhones and iPads. The subscription price, according to preliminary data, will be from 10 to 40 dollars a month.
The announcement of the new service, according to the newspaper, will take place in autumn, and its commercial operation is expected to begin in September or November of this year. The main competitor of Apple in the new TV service will be Sling TV launched by Dish Network Corp. The cost of subscription is $ 20 a month.
Apple, as usual, the situation prefers not to comment.
