• Media Memo, Friday, February 19, 2010 3:14 PM

Hulu's three owners -- NBC Universal, News Corp. and Disney -- want to bring the premium video service to Apple's iPad, but not without a fee, according to MediaMemo. "The most likely scenario is one in which access to Hulu on the iPad comes as part of a subscription package," sources tell the Wall Street Journal-backed blog. By contrast, Hulu has been free for Web users since its debut in 2008.

"Depending on who you talk to, the pay service is either supposed to help the money-losing Web site turn a profit or compensate the networks for the eyeballs and dollars Hulu is supposedly siphoning away ... Or both." At this point, he only thing for sure is that details of the distribution deal have yet to be ironed out.

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