Yahoo, ABC News Announce Partnership

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Monday, ABC News and Yahoo announced a new partnership. Yahoo wants ABC News to bring more content to its site, and ABC News is interested in Yahoo's big audience.

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GUY RAZ, host: And I'm Guy Raz. And it's time now for All Tech Considered.

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RAZ: The latest marriage of big technology and big media was announced this morning in Times Square, before a crowd of cheering tourists.

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ROBIN ROBERTS: And you can see, we are not the only ones excited about this partnership. Our crowd is...

RAZ: "Good Morning America's" Robin Roberts announcing a deal that will bring ABC News content to Yahoo.

But as NPR's Neda Ulaby reports, those excited bystanders don't reflect harsher realities facing one of the country's best-known news brands, and the world's most visited website.

NEDA ULABY: When ABC people talk about this deal in public, they repeat two phrases like a mantra: 100 million and game changer.

BEN SHERWOOD: This is a game changer for ABC News.

ULABY: That's the network's news president, Ben Sherwood.

SHERWOOD: Yahoo is a colossus online. It gets 100 million unique users in news. It has around 700 million users worldwide.

ULABY: And in return for the sheer size of that funnel, Yahoo, a terrific news aggregator, gets unique content from a celebrated news team, says Rafat Ali. He started the website paidContent. But this is not the first time Yahoo has partnered with network news. It's not even the first time it's partnered with ABC.

RAFAT ALI: I guess it's a case of heard it all, seen it all before.

ULABY: Rafat says historically, it's been hard to combine a techie Silicon Valley mentality with East Coast-centric media culture. If you go to "Good Morning America's" website right now, you're redirected to gma.yahoo.com. Ali says he's willing to go on the record...

ALI: On the record, guaranteed within three years...

ULABY: It will go back to being just gma.com.

ALI: I mean, I can give you 500 examples of this, including CNBC used to be cnbc.yahoo.finance.yahoo.com - something like that.

ULABY: The problems of ABC News include a weak online presence, the lack of a cable partner like MSNBC, and leadership in constant flux, says Rafat Ali. Still, he sees a little more digital mojo in its splashy first project with Yahoo News - today's George Stephanopoulos interview with President Obama.

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GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: Can you put a stop to that?

President BARACK OBAMA: Well, what we did was, we put a stop through...

ULABY: It may take more for Yahoo to regain the traffic it's lost to Gmail and Facebook.

Twenty-nine-year-old Melissa Dilow(ph) ditched her Yahoo account for Gmail. So would she, let's say, go back to Yahoo to watch ABC News videos?

MELISSA DILOW: No, I get my news on my apps on my iPad. I would have no use for that, personally.

ULABY: Yahoo stock ticked up about 6 percent after today's announcement. But investors attribute that to a separate statement from a Chinese investor who says he's interested in buying the website.

Neda Ulaby, NPR News.

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At a press event here in San Francisco, DISH announced the Blockbuster Movie Pass will launch October 1. Services include streaming video to your PC, a By-Mail DVDs and games rental service, the ability to exchange unlimited numbers of DVDs and games at local participating Blockbuster retail stores.
Prices for Movie Pass start at $10 a month for Dish Network subscribers. They'll get a one-disc-at-a-time subscription with the upgrade options of $15 and $20 a month for two and three discs at a time. All three plans will have the same streaming offerings.
When asked repeatedly if the service would be opened up to non-DISH Network customers Blockbuster's President Michael Kelly said it is working to open the service in the future, but wouldn't specify when.
At-a-Glance Overview
Streaming - For now, the computer streaming offerings are limited to DISH customer computers via DishOnline.com with a limited selection of 4000 movie and "hundreds" of TV titles available to watch instantly. Dish Network execs promised to expand DishOnline service to mobile devices by the end of 2011.
In related news, Blockbuster announced a new Facebook streaming and rental app Thursday at Facebook’s f8 conference.
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Both DISH and Blockbuster executives continually stressed the simplicity of the Blockbuster Movie Pass as an all-in-one solution. Clearly, this was a jab at Netflix’s recent split of its streaming and by-mail options that upset Netflix users. “Unlike other companies, we offer the simplicity of one company, one bill, and one connection.” said Clayton.
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The value for customers, according to Blockbuster and Dish, is the online streaming service works together with its other streaming options on your TV along with Blockbuster’s DVD by mail service. The bundle gives customers access to over 100,000 movies and 3000 games by DVD and an additional 3400 movies and TV shows streaming on DISH Network boxes.
The move might attract customers annoyed by Netflix’s recent price hike and split and in fact it seems like Netflix’s loss has been Blockbuster’s gain in the short term. Blockbuster's Kelly said that in the last 30 days the company has gained over 500,000 new subscribers and traffic at Blockbuster stores is up over 100 percent.
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DISH Networks and Blockbuster announced a Blockbuster Movie Pass service for movies, TV shows, and game rentals that starts at $10-a-month for existing customers. Both Dish and Blockbuster hope the service, that combines streaming movies and TV shows as well a DVD and game delivery, will give disgruntled Netflix customers a clear alternative. Blockbuster was purchased by DISH earlier this year.

At a press event here in San Francisco, DISH announced the Blockbuster Movie Pass will launch October 1. Services include streaming video to your PC, a By-Mail DVDs and games rental service, the ability to exchange unlimited numbers of DVDs and games at local participating Blockbuster retail stores.

Prices for Movie Pass start at $10 a month for Dish Network subscribers. They'll get a one-disc-at-a-time subscription with the upgrade options of $15 and $20 a month for two and three discs at a time. All three plans will have the same streaming offerings.

When asked repeatedly if the service would be opened up to non-DISH Network customers Blockbuster's President Michael Kelly said it is working to open the service in the future, but wouldn't specify when.

At-a-Glance Overview

Streaming - For now, the computer streaming offerings are limited to DISH customer computers via DishOnline.com with a limited selection of 4000 movie and "hundreds" of TV titles available to watch instantly. Dish Network execs promised to expand DishOnline service to mobile devices by the end of 2011.

In related news, Blockbuster announced a new Facebook streaming and rental app Thursday at Facebook’s f8 conference.

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Both DISH and Blockbuster executives continually stressed the simplicity of the Blockbuster Movie Pass as an all-in-one solution. Clearly, this was a jab at Netflix’s recent split of its streaming and by-mail options that upset Netflix users. “Unlike other companies, we offer the simplicity of one company, one bill, and one connection.” said Clayton.

Not Quite a Netflix Alternative Yet

The value for customers, according to Blockbuster and Dish, is the online streaming service works together with its other streaming options on your TV along with Blockbuster’s DVD by mail service. The bundle gives customers access to over 100,000 movies and 3000 games by DVD and an additional 3400 movies and TV shows streaming on DISH Network boxes.

The move might attract customers annoyed by Netflix’s recent price hike and split and in fact it seems like Netflix’s loss has been Blockbuster’s gain in the short term. Blockbuster's Kelly said that in the last 30 days the company has gained over 500,000 new subscribers and traffic at Blockbuster stores is up over 100 percent.

DISH Network Customer Boon

In addition to the regular $10-a-month option Dish Network is offering new customers the Blockbuster Movie Pass for free with a one year subscription to the company’s $39.99 a month "America’s Top 200" programming package.

The Movie Pass seems like a great competitor to Netflix for customers who are already on Dish Network, but it remains to be seen if this will lead new subscribers for the satellite provide. Over 24,000 streaming titles, a lion’s share of the company’s 34,000 streaming titles at DishOnline.com are only available to customers with Dish Network’s America's "Everything" plan - a $79.99 a month subscription.

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