ABC Expands Live App to Four More Markets

By Jon Lafayette
( Broadcasting & Cable )
published

Disney/ABC Television Group is expanding its Watch ABC app,
which allows viewers to stream network and local programming, to four more
markets.

The new markets are Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco and
Raleigh-Durham. The service continues to be available in New York and
Philadelphia.

Disney/ABC said it also plans to roll out Watch ABC is the
remaining markets where it owns stations -- Houston and Fresno -- before the
start of the fall TV season. In addition, the company said Hearst TV plans to
launch Watch ABC in the 13 markets where it owns ABC affiliates.

Watch ABC allows authenticated subscribers of participating
distributors to watch live programming on computers, tablets and phones.
Disney/ABC said it has Watch ABC agreements in place with Comcast, Cablevision,
Cox Communications, Charter Communications, Midcontinent Communications and
AT&T U-verse.

In addition to Apple and Kindle Fire devices,
there is now a Watch ABC app for some Android tablets.

Jon Lafayette
Jon Lafayette

Jon has been business editor of Broadcasting+Cable since 2010. He focuses on revenue-generating activities, including advertising and distribution, as well as executive intrigue and merger and acquisition activity. Just about any story is fair game, if a dollar sign can make its way into the article. Before B+C, Jon covered the industry for TVWeek, Cable World, Electronic Media, Advertising Age and The New York Post. A native New Yorker, Jon is hiding in plain sight in the suburbs of Chicago.