CNN Planning to Launch Broadband Channel?

CableNewser reports that CNN is in the early stages of development on a 24-hour broadband news channel for Internet users…The channel, called CNN NewsStream Live, is targeted for a first quarter 2005 launch.

This will be a premium product, and aimed at office workers who don’t have access to TV. Billing: through their ISPs…which complicates things: so I’m watching it on office PC, yet I’ll be billed to my home ISP? Even though the story indicates that may be the route CNN will be taking, I don’t think that may be the case…

ABC News has tried a similar thing: its premium ABC News Live service, which has not got the reception it aimed for, mainly due to lack of editorial interest and control. CNN itself has a video package called CNN NewsPass, which it sells through RealNetworks…

MSNBC and MSN, on the other hand, are going in for an ad-supported model…FoxNews.com has also been pushing broadband video content of late, through its “Fox News Access” product, and since January has produced a tripling of traffic to the site because of that.

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