Japan's 5 TV Stations to Start FREE Webcasting

[Taro Toporific]

Japan's 5 TV Stations to Start Webcast With DentsuRedorbit (Jiji Press) Nov. 26, 2005,Tokyo----Japan's five major television networks, including Tokyo Broadcasting System Inc. , plan to team up with advertising giant Dentsu Inc. to distribute their programs over the Internet from next spring,..
...Dentsu to arrange ads for TV programs and to set up a new company to distribute the programs free of charge, the sources said. The five TV stations will provide the new company with programs for the Webcast. TBS has already agreed to invest in the new company, and the four others-- Fuji Television Network Inc. , TV Asahi Corp. , Nippon Television Network Corp. and TV Tokyo Corp.......more...

[IkemenTommy]

I thought the original idea was to broadcast through your handheld phones. Maybe it's already being implemented and I have been out of the whole cutting edge technology loophole but I saw the demonstration some time around this time last year.

Even though it's FREE, expect a whole shitload of annoying push advertisements.. of course, it's a matter of time before someone comes up with the no-advertisement hack..

[Taro Toporific]

It seems that they will be rebroadcasting reruns --meh-- and the "free" has not been decided yet.


TBS, Dentsu to broadcast TV reruns online
Japan Today - Monday, November 28, 2005 at 17:09 JST
TOKYO ---Dentsu Inc, Japan's top advertising agency, said Monday it has launched studies with five Tokyo-based commercial TV broadcasters on jointly establishing a company for webcasting reruns of TV programs. The partners will study providing video programs via the Internet to meet growing demand for such services, Dentsu said. They will study all possibilities, including free and paid-for services....more...