Music Choice TV Channel to Expand to PCs

Everyone wants to be on the PC: TV network Music Choice will soon give cable broadband customers access to its content and a song download service through their computers…

The broadband offering will be available for cable operators to incorporate in their websites starting Friday. Cable companies refused to discuss whether they plan to deploy the service. But analysts say that’s likely, since Music Choice is a private partnership of four major cable operators — Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Cox and Adelphia — along with Sony, EMI Music, Warner Music Group, Microsoft and Motorola.
For this service, Music Choice has a non-exclusive alliance with online music service Napster…The selection of downloadable songs will be limited to Napster’s library of about 500,000 tracks. Users will also be able to buy CDs through a direct link to Amazon.com.

What does this mean for other pureplay online music service providers who have some existing relationships with these cable companies?

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