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Missed a Favorite ABC TV Show?

By Larry Hendrick | May 2, 2006

It appears the business of television is playing it smarter than other media. Let’s see how many different ways we can give the customer content, on air (ABC affiliate), $1.99(iTunes), free (ABC.com), …

Now ABC television is offering a few shows, one day delayed, for your viewing pleasure. Just log onto their site and click the link for “watch now” and there you are… watching Lost with all the commercials intact, but for the fabulous price of $0.00. Now go! See what you missed last night.

“Lost” found free on the Net | News.blog | CNET News.com
Missed the latest episode of “Lost”? Now you can watch it live online, without shelling out for a download from iTunes.
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ABC went live this week with a new service that offers streamed versions of four television shows–”Lost,” “Desperate Housewives,” “Alias” and “Commander in Chief”–on the Web, complete with nonskippable commercial breaks.

The program is, for now,, just a two-month trial–one that happens to coincide with May sweeps). Bloggers were generally pleased with the video quality and ease of use. Could offering television online finally be the way to beat file sharing?

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