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Pay-to-View: Hulu Could Soon Charge for Content

by Caleb Johnson on June 5, 2009 at 06:30 AM


It's been said that nothing in this world is free. But with Hulu, the Web site that lets us watch our favorite movies and TV shows free-of-charge, we thought we just might have found an exception to the rule -- a cyber-garden of entertainment-Eden, if you will. Now it seems some money-hungry suits might not be able to resist temptation, and could ruin this entertainment paradise for all of us.

According to Daily Finance, Jonathan Miller, the chief digital officer of News Corp. (which owns Hulu along with NBC Universal and Disney), said Tuesday at an Internet Week event that at least some of the Web site's content could soon become subscriber-based. Miller, who just recently took his position at News Corp., did explain, though, that such a policy change was purely based on his own thoughts, as he had not yet met with the company's board of directors.

Daily Finance sure does seem to think Miller's comments hold water, though. According to the Web site, Miller was hired by News Corp. to find new ways of generating revenue from digital content. This goal is not just limited to Hulu -- News Corp. also owns FOX Television, The Wall Street Journal, and a number of other media outlets.

While we would love to see Hulu continue to offer 100-percent of its content for free, it probably does make better business sense to have at least some of the content pay-to-view. [From Daily Finance]

Tags: hulu, internettv, newscorp, top, tv

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