CNN, HLN to Stream on Web

July 18, 2011 at 6:22 am PT

Time Warner Inc. is increasing the number of TV channels and programs it pipes over the Internet to people who have conventional pay-TV subscriptions, as the television business faces growing competition from Web-video services.

Starting Monday, the New York media giant plans to make live simulcasts of its CNN and HLN cable-news channels available on the Web to people who subscribe to participating TV distributors, including Comcast Corp., Dish Network Corp., and Verizon Communications Inc.

Subscribers can sign in to watch on CNN’s website or on Apple Inc. devices like the iPad. The simulcasts—which will mirror everything shown on TV, including ads—will be made available on other mobile devices in coming months, CNN said.

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Tagged with: Apple, CNN, Comcast, Dish Network, HLN, Internet, iPad, Sam Schechner, The Wall Street Journal, Time Warner, Verizon, Web video

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Anonymous

I know many people have one of these providers but it is a serious problem to those that don’t have one of them, no big provider is available in my area. But I would love to watch tv on my iPad, I subscribe to cable and pay a large same as everyone else why can’t I watch tv on my iPad too.

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