Apple TV To Stream TWC Channels

by Wayne Friedman , July 5, 2013

Merging more traditional programming platforms with newer TV consumer applications, Apple TV could soon be offering live TV streaming of channels from Time Warner Cable, the second-largest U.S. cable operator.

Only those “authenticated” Time Warner Cable subscribers, under TV Everywhere efforts, will have access to this, according to a report in Bloomberg.

This comes as Apple TV recently inked other TV Everywhere deals with HBO Go and WatchESPN apps.

Time Warner Cable has struck other similar consumer technology TV Everywhere deals -- including one with Microsoft’s Xbox 360 where some 300 live TV channels will be available this summer on the Xbox One game console.

At the recent NCTA cable show in Washington D.C, Comcast chairman and CEO Brian Roberts said the industry has been slow in rolling out all types of TV Everywhere deals.

Glenn Britt, president/CEO of Time Warner Cable, has said the company has been talking to all device manufacturers -- including smart TV makers like Samsung. A recent deal with Samsung will offer TWC consumers about 5,000 video-on-demand pieces of content and will add live TV streaming by the end of 2013.

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Bobby Calise from Horizon Media, Inc., July 8, 2013 at 10:19 a.m.
So Apple TV will stream TWC's networks live...as long as you are a TWC subscriber? Why would someone do this rather than just watching through their TWC box normally?
Am I missing something?
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Peter Benjamin from MyOffices, July 8, 2013 at 12:44 p.m.

Yes what you are missing is the tangent point of Apple TV's success reaching over to the new IOS which will soon have TV built in. For a year APPLE has given us every excuse in the book not to approve our TV app. Yet now the truth is evident they have a similar product coming out. Your Apple TV is competing against the New Google Mini PCs with DVB which have these items already built in. Then the benefit is a rental of shows through the APPLE TV Console.