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No Cable Day-and-Date for Disney
On the heels of Comcast, the US biggest cable operator, talking about plans to open a new distribution window by offering opening-day movies on cable the same day they were released in the theaters, charging $30-$50 ("We've talked to all the studios about this and they're all interested," Reuters quotes Comcast COO Stephen Burke as saying), Disney CEO Bob Iger offered a much different point of view on the same topic during a conference call with analysts after announcing that their 2Q profit rose 27 percent. Here's what Variety had to say about it:
Iger poured a bit of cold water on Comcast chief operating officer Steve Burke's bullish forecast, at the NCTA confab in Las Vegas, of firstrun pics being distributed day-and-date in theaters and on pay-per-view cable. "We're not in discussions to sell movies to cable in the same window as theatrical," he said
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