CALGARY – Shaw has bulked up its video-on-demand offerings to include eight prime time shows from Global, plus classic movies from the Warner Bros. collection.
Popular new and returning series, including Survivor, Lie to Me, The Good Wife, Family Guy, Glee, Bones, 90210 and NCIS, will be free on VOD to all Shaw digital TV customers until October 18, 2009. After that time, the Global programming will be offered exclusively to Shaw’s ‘Triple Play’ customers, who have the bundled product lines of digital TV, Internet and phone.
Timeless classics like Mutiny on the Bounty, Casablanca, Ben Hur, and An American in Paris have been re-mastered in high definition to join the approximately 500 other HD titles in Shaw’s VOD library.
In related news, Shaw and Shaw Direct have dropped the puck on ‘NHL GameCenter Live’, an on-line streaming service that provides up to 40 live out-of-market games per week.
"Fans have the ability to watch up to four games at once and access replay archives, said president Peter Bissonnette in the announcement. “It’s all on-line, so it’s perfect for fans on the go. We took the slogan ‘The Game Lives Where You Do’, and applied it literally, so that every fan can have game access no matter where they are."
Shaw and Shaw Direct are offering customers NHL GameCenter Live for free if they sign up for NHL Centre Ice before October 31, 2009. NHL Centre Ice offers 1,000 NHL games, including up to 40 out-of-market NHL games each week, from every NHL market across North America.
