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iTMS Adds Video Content From ABC Sports and News, ESPN, Disney

The Walt Disney Co. on Tuesday announced that it's now selling more video content through the iTunes Music Store (iTMS), including programming from ESPN and ABC Sports, ABC Entertainment and Touchstone Television, ABC Family, ABC News, Buena Vista Television, Disney Channel, and SOAPnet, as well as classic Disney animated shorts. As with other content on the iTMS, each selection is US$1.99.

The sports content includes condensed versions of the four BCS bowl games: yesterday's Fiesta and Sugar Bowls, as well as today's Orange Bowl and tomorrow's Rose Bowl. Yesterday's games are available now, while the upcoming games will become available the day after they air. The condensed bowl games currently on the iTMS run between 15 and 17 minutes and offer highlights of the action.


BCS bowl games on the iTMS

Later this month, ESPN will offer additional content, including The Best of The X Games, SportsCentury interviews and various original programs. Other TV shows coming to iTMS later this month include ABC Family's Wildfire, the Disney Channel's Kim Possible, vintage School House Rock videos from the 1970s, Buena Vista Television's Ebert and Roeper and more.

ABC News also plans to offer free video podcasts that will include commercials. Viewers can expect daily segments from Good Morning America and World News Tonight. In addition, classic Disney cartoons that will be added to the iTMS include the Academy Award-winning 1930s-era shorts "The Three Little Pigs" and "The Tortoise and the Hare."

Disney already offers episodes of the ABC TV shows Commander in Chief, Lost and Desperate Housewives, as well as the Disney Channel series That's So Raven and The Suite Life of Zack and Cody, on the iTMS.

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geoduck said:

member since 30 Dec 2003 with 1922 posts, unranked, send him a message or view his profile

This is very good. I'm hoping that this is just a precursor to other announcements of this kind leading up to next week.

w00t! Animation. OK Kim Possible is not high art but we're getting closer to the good stuff.

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kevdo said:

member since 09 Dec 2004 with 54 posts, unranked, send him a message or view his profile

Very pleased to see the Disney shorts on this list. Another wire service story on this topic mentioned America's Funniest Home Videos, a fan favorite for the kids in our household.

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dux5 said:

member since 02 Jul 2002 with 112 posts, unranked, send him a message or view his profile

Actually, I'm very pleased to see the free news content, even though it includes commercials.

The only way I'm inclined to download GMA and World News is if it's at no cost to me. Let ABC recover the "cost" of the podcast through their advertisers.

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A guest said: (hide)

Nice. But I was really hoping for 'Grey's Anatomy'. That show is even better than its lead-in, 'Desperate Housewives'. Which has lost a step in its second season.

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