Background: Each of Hulu's three partners/owners-GE's NBC, News Corp.'s Fox and Disney's ABC-has agreed to mutual exclusivity pacts. If you want to watch one of their shows for free online, you can see them on the networks' own sites, or via Hulu-either on the main site itself, or via other sites that are taking Hulu's feed. If the FCC is telling NBC that it has to offer its shows directly to other Web sites. That's potentially devastating news for Hulu. We won't really know what Genachowski intends until he goes public with his proposed rules.
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