The four-episode season premiere of '24' appeared on the site ahead of its scheduled broadcast.

Warner Bros. Studios has teamed up with AOL for In2TV, a free, ad-supported service

Starting next week, FOX will begin selling one of its most popular shows on a social networking Web site

Disney-ABC said last week it would start streaming shows via the AOL Web portal, and NBC Universal announced plans to begin allowing viewers to download shows to their PCs.

Complete shows, without commercials, will be available to Netflix customers six weeks prior to their premiere television broadcast.

ABC's parent company Disney announced this week that it would begin offering current episodes of some of its most popular primetime broadcast shows on the Internet for free beginning in May. During the two-month online "trial," consumers will be able to download episodes of "Lost," "Desperate Housewives," and "Comma

Just before the FCC lowered the hammer last week on his merger proposal with DirecTV, EchoStar chairman Charlie Ergen was asked to describe his backup plan in case of failure. “Go over a cliff,” Ergen snapped, adding that he had no backup plan.