NEW YORK (Reuters) – Comcast Corp and Time Warner Cable Inc are talking with owners of major cable television networks about ways to give cable subscribers online access to much of the networks' programing, the Wall Street Journal said, citing people familiar with the situation.
Discussions have taken place in recent months and include network owners such as General Electric Co's NBC Universal, Time Warner Inc and Viacom Inc, which own such networks as MTV, TNT and USA, the newspaper said on its website on Thursday, citing the people.
The operators hope the Web services, which could launch this year, will attract new subscribers despite popular free-to-watch Web sites such as hulu.com, by offering a large amount of previously unavailable video, the newspaper said.
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