David wrote:
> STREAMING VIDEO GOES RETRO ON NBC UNIVERSAL'S ENTERTAINMENT SITES
>
> NBC.com, SCIFI.com, CHILLERTV.com, SLEUTHCHANNEL.com To Stream Vintage
> Series
>
> "A-Team," The Original "Battlestar Galatica," "Miami Vice," "Night
> Gallery," "Kojak" and "The Alfred Hitchcock Hour" Among Series
> Offerings
>
> BURBANK and NEW YORK February 19, 2008 NBC Digital Entertainment and
> NBC Universal Cable Entertainment today announced plans for streaming
> vintage television content on their entertainment websites. Full
> episode streaming of classic, fan-favorite series including "The
> Alfred Hitchcock Hour," "Kojak," "Miami Vice," the original
> "Battlestar Galactica," "A-Team" and "Emergency" will be offered on
> NBC.com, SCIFI.com, ChillerTV.com and SleuthChannel.com beginning this
> month.
>
> "NBC Universal has a tremendous library of quality content and we are
> very excited to re-introduce these classic shows to a new web
> audience," said Vivi Zigler, Executive Vice President, NBC Digital
> Entertainment.
>
> "These are the kinds of titles we get requests for all the time at the
> network, and now we're able to give our viewers a new way to watch
> their favorite classic shows and share them with their friends," said
> Craig Engler, Senior Vice President, SCIFI.com.
>
> "Fans of Chiller and Sleuth are going to have a great time
> re-discovering classics like 'Night Gallery' and 'Kojak,'" said Dan
> Harrison, Senior Vice President, Emerging Networks, NBC Universal
> Cable. "These are timeless series that are going to find entirely new
> audiences on the web. This platform is another great extension of our
> new digital brands, Sleuth and Chiller, which extend from television
> into on-line and now on-demand video."
>
> A full list of streaming vintage series follows:
>
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So, the contract hasn't even been signed yet and the network thinks
they've
already found a huge honking loophole in it?
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