After Years of Speculation, CBS Library Finally Coming to Hulu Plus
By Rob Scott
November 7, 2012
November 7, 2012
- Hulu has announced a deal with CBS that will bring 2,600 episodes of shows such as “Medium,” “Star Trek,” “I Love Lucy,” “The Twilight Zone” and “CSI: Miami” to the video service starting in January.
- CBS content will be restricted to classic series and recently canceled shows. The CBS website will continue as the sole venue for ad-driven episodes of current series.
- The network finally joins competitors such as NBC and Fox, which have been offering content via Hulu for years. The streaming service currently has more than 400 content partners.
- “Hulu says that the deal with CBS will be in effect for multiple years, but the company did not provide financial details on the agreement,” reports CNET. “Some CBS library shows will be available on the free Hulu.com, though Hulu wouldn’t say which programs will make the list.”
- The majority of titles from the CBS library will be made available on the premium version, Hulu Plus, for customers who pay the $8 per month subscription fee.
- “The CBS deal comes as Hulu faces a number of internal questions in the wake of buying out early investor Providence Equity Partners,” notes TechCrunch in a related post. That means that Hulu is controlled entirely by its parents and content partners Fox, Disney, and NBCUniversal.”
- “That deal triggered a liquidity event, through which all employees with stock were able to cash out, leaving some key executives — like CEO Jason Kilar — little reason to stick around. There’s a lot to change ahead for Hulu in the next 12 months, so getting an unexpected content partner on board is positive news.”
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