Apple more than doubles US-only selection of TV-show-downloads with NBC deal

[Bob Crabtree]

Apple has more than doubled the range of TV shows that iTunes users in the USA can buy for download - adding 11 NBC programmes spanning current prime-time, cable and late-night offerings, plus 'classics'. Included are Law & Order, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Dragnet, Knight Rider, Battlestar Galactica and The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.

BURBANK, California and Cupertino, California—December 6, 2005—NBC Universal and Apple today announced an unprecedented lineup of new primetime, cable, late-night and classic TV shows, including primetime hits such as 'Law & Order' and late-night favorites such as sketches from 'The Tonight Show with Jay Leno' on the iTunes Music Store (http://www.itunes.com).

iTunes now offers more than 300 episodes of 16 popular TV shows for viewing on a computer or iPod. Customers have purchased and downloaded more than three million videos since their debut on October 12, making the iTunes Music Store the world’s most popular video download store.

Read more and let us know here if you're living outside the USA and feeling unloved by Apple's USA-only TV-show deals.

[DavidM]

Ouch - that is rather unfair