Radio / Television News

Disney joins Hulu

LOS ANGELES - The Walt Disney Company is buying in to U.S. on-line video service Hulu as a joint venture partner and equity owner. Founded in March 2007, Hulu is currently co-owned by NBC Universal, News Corporation and Providence Equity Partners. The on-line aggregator of video content offers a selection of television shows, clips and movies from 150 content companies at its website Hulu.com and 35 other destination sites on-line, such as AOL, MSN, MySpace and Yahoo!.The agreement will see some of Disney’s most popular prime time series and feature films added to Hulu’s lineup – from full length episodes of ABC...