Disney To Offer Free Preview Of New VOD Service

Disney’s new subscription video-on-demand service, Disney Family Movies, will offer a free sneak peek to subscribers of Comcast, Charter, Cox, AT&T U-verse, Suddenlink and Verizon FiOS over Labor Day weekend. Free Disney movies will be available on demand from Thursday, Sept. 3 through Monday, Sept. 7 to subscribers who sign up with their program providers.

Actress Phylicia Rashad will host the free preview, which will offer a variety of Disney films including Mary Poppins, Tarzan and 101 Dalmatians.

Paige Albiniak

Contributing editor Paige Albiniak has been covering the business of television for more than 25 years. She is a longtime contributor to Next TV, Broadcasting + Cable and Multichannel News. She concurrently serves as editorial director for The Global Entertainment Marketing Academy of Arts & Sciences (G.E.M.A.). She has written for such publications as TVNewsCheck, The New York Post, Variety, CBS Watch and more. Albiniak was B+C’s Los Angeles bureau chief from September 2002 to 2004, and an associate editor covering Congress and lobbying for the magazine in Washington, D.C., from January 1997 - September 2002.