Missed last night's "World News Tonight?"
Want to watch that exclusive Barbara Walters interview with your broadband connection? Now you can with "ABC News On Demand," available exclusively through ABCNEWS.com. "ABC News On Demand" brings ABC News coverage, exclusively-cut segments, and multimedia streams to the computer so you can get the news at your convenience, with the highest video quality, where and when you want. "ABC News On Demand" launches today [7/31/02].
"ABC News On Demand" is your one-stop shop for ABC News coverage- on your schedule. This new, comprehensive service follows ABCNEWS.com's success with its offerings on RealOne(TM) SuperPass, the online subscription service from RealNetworks®, Inc. Via RealOne SuperPass, ABCNEWS.com already offers ABC News' "World News Tonight" and "Nightline" in their entirety, as well as high-bandwidth quality of all live video streams. After offering this content for nearly one year on RealOne's ABCNEWS.com channel, ABC News has increased its broadband offerings that are available with these packages:
"ABC News On Demand" - For those who want to get the news on their schedule and don't want to miss ABC News' exclusive interviews, this package, priced at $4.95/month and available at
www.abcnews.com, offers:
* "World News Tonight with Peter Jennings," "Nightline," and "Nightline UpClose" in their entirety, the morning after the live broadcast, including 30 days of archived shows.
* "Good Morning America" exclusive celebrity interviews and music performances.
* Producer's cuts from "Primetime" and "20/20," featuring Internet-exclusive video.
* Excerpts from ABC News specials.
* Sam Donaldson's radio show "Live in America."
* "Best of Nightline," your favorite Nightline interviews and segments.
* ABC News Radio's updated hourly newscasts and Bill Diehl's weekly movie reviews.
"RealOne SuperPass" - This package, priced at $9.95/month and available at
www.realone.com, offers:
* All content from "ABC News On Demand."
* PLUS all of RealOne premium news, sports and entertainment programming from: MLB Advanced Media, NASCAR.com, FOXSports.com, E! Networks, NBA, iFilm and more.
"Our purpose is to provide the American people with quality news reporting -- which we do every day through programs aired on the ABC Television Network, programs on ABC News Radio, and material on our website, ABCNEWS.com," said David Westin, president of ABC News. "ABC News on Demand" permits us to make our coverage available to individual members of our audience when and where they want them. Now we can provide the quality of carefully-reported and produced network news reports together with the convenience that, until now, has been associated only with cable news."
"Since ABC News began streaming in RealNetworks' formats in 1995, its online offerings have always been on the cutting edge of digital media innovation. The move to create `ABC News On Demand' further validates the trend for media companies to provide a robust, high quality digital media experience to consumers for a fee," stated Rob Glaser, Chairman and CEO, RealNetworks, Inc. "With the marriage of content and technology offered within RealOne Player, the PC desktop is edging closer and closer to a cable TV experience, giving consumers, at home and at work, the ability to follow breaking news or watch last night's `World News Tonight' on their computers."
