Tag archive: Sesame Street

Perennial children's programming favorite Sesame Street is taking to the Internet, with the non-profit Sesame Workshop announcing today that complete episodes of Sesame Street will be available on iTunes for $1.99 each (with 70 percent of the revenue going to Sesame Workshop), and with online video sides YouTube and Hulu also setting up Sesame Street sections featuring clips and segments. iTunes will be the only service carrying… Read More

At this week's Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, Yahoo and Intel announced a new initiative aimed at building support for Web-enabled channels directly into high-definition televisions, so Internet-based content (and, no doubt, advertising) can run alongside television programming. The initiative, dubbed the “Widget Channel,” will offer a television application framework developers can use to deploy Internet-based… Read More

Last year, the Disney-founded MovieBeam digital movie rental service looked dead before ever having hit the market. Disney took a $24 million write-down on the effort, and rumor was to expect a whole lot of nothing from the effort. But last month, Disney, Intel, Cisco, and VC firms injected over $48 million into the operation, and, suddenly, MovieBeam is ready to go: MovieBeam announced today that it plans to begin offering first-run films… Read More

American Film Institute publicized the AFI Digital Content Festival, to be held on July 20 at AFI's Hollywood Campus. The daylong event presents the best new digital and interactive content, with presentations including content created for cable and satellite television, mobile devices, games and broadband. “With the Digital Content Festival, as well as in our year-round Digital Content Lab, AFI raises the bar for content and… Read More