In a move to sustain interest in its fall shows during the Major League Baseball playoffs and World Series, Fox has debuted Fox on Demand, a free streaming showcase on MySpace and 24 owned-and-operated station sites (as we’ve reported, the Fox sites have already been streaming a handful of primetime shows). At launch, available shows (repeats) include Bones, Prison Break, Standoff, Vanished, Justice and more, with additional shows coming later in the season. Streaming is sponsored by Toyota, Burger King and Lionsgate Films. The “Fox Full Throttle” player requires a quick download, and Fox says it delivers a “high definition quality” viewing experience. While I think the idea of offering shows online is a good idea anyway, the move to keep viewers engaged during the confusing programming weeks of the MLB postseason is a smart idea. Now the next step is to produce new shows just for the web.
PRESS RELEASE — Fox Broadcasting, Fox Interactive Media and Fox Television Stations Group today launched FOX on Demand, a groundbreaking endeavor bringing full episodes of FOX primetime television series from the new fall season to millions of fans on an ad-supported basis through MySpace.com and the MyFoxLocal web sites, in 24 owned and operated markets. In an industry first, Fox Interactive Media is leveraging both national and local online distribution channels to sustain enthusiasm for fall primetime programming while the network broadcasts Major League Baseball play-offs and the World Series games.
Beginning today, consumers can access previously-aired episodes from FOX’s returning hits and new fall primetime series, including “Bones,†“Prison Break,†“Standoff,†“Vanished,†“Talk Show With Spike Feresten,†“’Til Death,†“The Loop†and “Justice.†Additional episodes of these and other FOX shows will be made available throughout October and November. On-air promotions during MLB broadcasts will push viewers to the sites to catch up on their favorite FOX shows through FOX on Demand.
“We’re fortunate to have partners like Fox Interactive Media and our Fox Stations Group making our entertainment programming available to viewers, while we turn over much of prime time to Fox Sports and post-season baseball,†said Peter Liguori, President of Entertainment for FOX. “MySpace provides tremendous exposure to our key demos and our O&O’s speak to local viewers and loyal fans of FOX in a very targeted way.â€
The launch of ad-supported streaming of FOX programming will support several strategic objectives, including building audiences during breaks in regular programming by utilizing an alternative distribution channel; demonstrating the value of online promotions to stations and advertisers; and allowing parallel entertainment offerings to grow audiences simultaneously.
“Offering free access to FOX programming online during the MLB primetime take-over demonstrates the tremendous value that may be realized through a smart digital distribution strategy for premium content,†said Peter Levinsohn, President, Digital Media, Fox Entertainment Group. “The FIM network of sites and particularly MySpace, combined with our local television sites, provide the optimal platform for maintaining momentum with our existing audience and also attracting new viewers.â€
“This is a significant step in our evolution as a next generation media company,†said FIM President Ross Levinsohn. “Leveraging this unique opportunity with our sister company FOX enables us to experiment and innovate, and deliver some of the most compelling video experiences online to consumers. We look forward to expanding this opportunity to other content owners and applaud our premiere sponsors for supporting this important endeavor.â€
FOX On Demand is available now on MySpace.com (http://www.myspace.com/fox) and on MyFoxLocal station sites in 24 markets across the country. Viewers will be able to stream each of the shows in high-definition streaming (over one gigabyte per second) video using the FOX Full Throttle video player. The player, delivered by Fox Interactive Media, offers a high-definition quality viewing experience.
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Doesn’t work for Canadians.
No big deal i’ll just pirate then like everyone else.
Well, the fact that some of those shows are banned in a few place outside US may be an excuse for FOX. Also, the advertisers paid only for US, didn’t they? So why would FOX promote them outside.
Anyway, I can’t believe the problem exists for over an year and NOBODY came up with a way to bypass it. No Russians want to watch FOX shows?
The Internet = International Network.
I noticed that many US websites now ban their content outside the USA. How provincial. Why don’t we reciprocate and build a virtual wall to close THEM off from the the rest of the world? Fox, Mtv, Amazon, itunes, and a whole bunch of others deliberately ban IP addresses outside the US from viewing their content, and there can’t be any commercial considerations because the more people see it around the world, the larger the audience! It’s just stupid mean spirited provincial mentality that we should ban from the internet.
I VOTE WE BAN THE US FROM THE REST OF THE INTERNET. They go against the very ethos of the www community.
(P.S.: I have no wish to have a discussion on who invented the www with ignorant people, thank you – without Tim Berners-Lee, who is British, the internet would still only be a dorky communication device used by Universities and military personnel.)
ARE YOU CANADIANS REALLY THAT STUPID? I am american and living in japan, and even I cant watch them, because im not coming from a US based IP address. I am the only one that has a right to bitch. But, since none of you where smart enough to realize the purpose of blocking you, I will fill you in. TV shows on public broadcasting channels are FREE to watch? WHY ARE THEY FREE TO WATCH? Oh yeah, because they have god damn commericials in them. And are they just any commericial. NO you nimwit, they are hand picked commericials for the given area (IE the US) and even more so, DOWn to teh individual states and cities. So NO they will not let you watch the shows until they have CANADIAN, AFGHANI, BRiSITH based Commericials to throw at your face in between watching shows. Until that happens, just shut up, or move to the US so you can stop complaining. I forgot where it was stated that FOX corporation owes you FREE TV and its required that it delivers. Why dont you turn on that thing inside your head and just think for a second rather than thinking oh yeah america only thinks about itself blah blah blah, you bunch of rejects.
Wow. Is it humanly possible to have that much rage about something so trivial, ‘only one with a brain’??? Calm down. It’s not like someone personally attacked you. And the fact that you are in Japan and think that you deserve it because of your nationality is just as silly.
Someone needs to NOT take this so seriously…
Calm down buddy
if anyone had some initiative you’d set up an American proxy server. im in the uk and am watching kitchen nightmares now.
yeah the USA can suck my balls…
I’ll make those corporate fat cats a deal… Stop being assholes and discriminating against the world and I’ll stop downloading tv shows off bit torrent….
pffft you know what screw their on demand crap… they don’t want to show it to Canadians FINE…
I’ll just download the show with bit torrent – no commercials and better quality that way anyways…
Frigging assholes.
Wow, thanks for the excellent information!
The reason why you can’t watch in Canada is because of the CRTC censorship regime! They want control over what Canadians watch…yes we have FOX channel in Canada but you might have noticed that we never watch US commercials…there is always a Canadian Network affiliated that shows us ‘Canadian Content’. So bottom line…don’t complain to FOX, complain to the CRTC.
The “Move Player” Experience:
Loading.. Loading… Loading. ….. Loading …. . . . .. . . Loading . . . . . . . . . . .. .. .. . Loading .. . . . . . . . Loading.. .. . . . . . . . . . . .. . . .
..Mozilla Firefox (Not Responding)
firefox is not supported
wow! i didnt see my issue raised above! a unique 1 at last!!
downloaded new player and every time i try to open a show for viewing.. it gives me some error message that windows explorer has encountered a problem and needs to be restarted.. do i wish to send report to MS?
then it crashes me to desktop and closes all IE pages open!
cant we just go back to the old reliable WORKING player?
I’ve got a SOLUTION for everyone here!! Go to Hulu.com and you can watch the episodes there.
I had same problem as everyone else. My player downloaded but then it crashed Firefox. Restarted and it crashed it again. Restarted and this time it just hung- with a black screen for about 10mins, and then when i tried to bring up another app, it gave those lines that everyone is mentioning. They are kind of like shadows but more intense. The F.O.D (on-demand) player is Cah-Cah, and apparently only 1 out of 10 peeps can get it to work. Fox you are making all your customers go to torrents and other sites. Just a heads up here- if u really want peeps watching at YOUR site; check into this prob right away. I see these posts started back in 2006, and its now 2008. by the by this happened on FF and I.E.
there are other ways to watch the show since it’s become impossible thru Fox itself.
Just sayin is all……..
I download the player in about ten seconds, then I try watching (any) show and it shuts down my computer. What am I supposed to do here? I’ve never even heard of this happening.
OK, yeah, officially FUCK FOX ON DEMAND. Go to Hulu.com. It’s far and away the easiest way I can imagine watching these shows. FUCK FUCKING GODDAM FUCKING FOX ON-FUCKING-DEMAND. These assholes want us to use their fucking site instead of going to Hulu, they should get their motherfucking shit together and stop fucking using inferior fucking goddam fucking products like this motherfucking stupid fucking player. Fuck Fox, fuck “Move” which doesn’t seem to fucking move for anyone, and fuck Fox’s advertisers. I’m not boycotting the goddam companies whose adds I saw a dozen times but no show. I don’t know why in the fuck I even bother trying to put any trust into any fucking thing that Newscorp is involved in, it’s bound to be inconvenient and substandard. I will NEVER watch fucking Fox again.
Not boycotting** But you know, still fuck Fox.