{"id":87718,"date":"2009-12-30T23:53:40","date_gmt":"2009-12-30T10:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/report-apple-cbs-walt-disney-web-partnership-may-threaten-cable-satellite-providers\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T14:45:47","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T06:45:47","slug":"report-apple-cbs-walt-disney-web-partnership-may-threaten-cable-satellite-providers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/report-apple-cbs-walt-disney-web-partnership-may-threaten-cable-satellite-providers\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Apple, CBS, Walt Disney Web Partnership May Threaten Cable, Satellite Providers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[12-30-09] <strong>CBS <\/strong>and<strong> Walt Disney<\/strong> are considering a deal with <strong>Apple <\/strong>to join forces in order to create an iTunes subscription-based service for online video, The Wall Street Journal reported Dec. 22.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The move aims to challenge broadcast and satellite TV providers that also provide data services. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In a December report, <strong>Nielsen Co.<\/strong> said that competitors would be looking to compete with <strong>Comcast<\/strong>\u2018s pending merger with <strong>NBC Universal<\/strong>, which would create the biggest cable and Internet distributor in the United States. <br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Comcast-NBC Universal merger, which must pass monopoly regulatory hurdles, would affect cable and satellite distributors\u2019 plans to capitalize off of Web video services, according to the Nielsen report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[12-30-09] CBS and Walt Disney are considering a deal with Apple to join forces in order to create an iTunes subscription-based service for online video, The Wall Street Journal reported Dec. 22. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The move aims to challenge broadcast and satellite TV providers that also provide data services. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In a December report, Nielsen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87718"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87718"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87907,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87718\/revisions\/87907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}