Hulu takes its ball and goes home

February 19, 2009 — Todd Weaver

tv_com_no_hulu Infighting among strange bedfellows says a lot about future plans: Co-incident with CBS relaunching C|Net-acquired TV.com into a potential rival of Hulu, Hulu pulled its content from the site.

Hulu, backed by NBC and News Corporation, competes with CBS in the traditional television markets. Hulu’s quick-fire removal of their content from TV.com shows that they are planning on fighting it out online as well.

Hulu and TV.com are tight-lipped about the contracted rights, but it appears that TV.com was caught slightly unaware with “video unavailable” riddling their site on all content provided by Hulu.

ivi’s mantra: Internet television must and will improve!

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Abigail Hamilton

As broadcasters fight their turf wars and wrangle over contracts, it's the viewers that take the hit: Remember the Time Warner-Viacom blackout threat just a few months ago? (http://cbs2.com/local/Time.Warner.Viacom.2.898130.html).

Broadcasters spend a lot of money developing content and building viewership for shows, and it seems very shortsighted to sacrifice viewer's interests in these scuffles. It's a world with too many rather than too few entertainment options. People have legs, will walk.