Both Brian Stelter at CableNewser and Matt Sheffield over at RatherBiased.com point out that ABC has been bitten by the cable news network bug, and they’ve added Internet and mobile phone components to their offering. The AP’s David Bauder writes that ABC News Now “begins operating at noon Monday, presenting gavel-to-gavel coverage of the Democratic National Convention, anchored by Peter Jennings.” ABC is absolutely experimenting to see what kind of results they get over the time between July 26 and Election Day in November, when the channel is set to disappear. No advertising will be broadcast from the national feed, which will be available only over digital cable, broadband Internet connections, and some Sprint mobile phones.
According to the ABC News Now website, there are various broadband providers offering the service. A complete, state-by-state listing of digital cable providers showing the station will be available soon (hopefully by Monday). The FAQ states that the channel will not be available to satellite telvision customers. Representatives from DirecTV and DISH Network had not responded to inquiries about ABC’s channel as of post time.
[update] DirecTV confirms that they are not carrying the network at this time, and did not elaborate on its potential inclusion in the future.
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1 rockhead // Sep 1, 2004 at 8:11 am
wen will dish git abcnow?