{"id":541141,"date":"2010-04-22T13:32:27","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T17:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10004862"},"modified":"2010-04-22T13:33:39","modified_gmt":"2010-04-22T17:33:39","slug":"would-you-pay-9-95month-for-hulu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/541141","title":{"rendered":"Would You Pay $9.95\/Month For Hulu?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/04\/hulugrab-thumb-250x205-39603.jpg\">         <\/p>\n<p>After two years of offering free streaming video to its users, a new report says that Hulu is ready to move forward with their plan for charging a subscription fee to access much of the site&#8217;s content.<\/p>\n<p>According to the L.A. Times:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Under the proposal, Hulu would continue to provide for free the five most recent episodes of shows like Fox&#8217;s &#8220;Glee,&#8221; &#8220;ABC&#8217;s &#8220;Lost&#8221; or NBC&#8217;s &#8220;Saturday Night Live.&#8221; But viewers who want to see additional episodes would pay $9.95 a month to access a more comprehensive selection, called Hulu Plus.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The owners of Hulu (a joint effort of NewsCorp, NBC Universal and Disney) haven&#8217;t exactly been starving, having made more than $100 million from advertisements that run during the videos. The site has also made an operating profit in the last two quarters. <\/p>\n<p>But obviously Hulu thinks it can generate even more revenue with the subscriptions. <\/p>\n<p>Question is, will you be willing to pay for it?<br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" charset=\"utf-8\" src=\"http:\/\/static.polldaddy.com\/p\/3094093.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<noscript><br \/>\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/answers.polldaddy.com\/poll\/3094093\/\">Would you pay $9.95\/month for Hulu?<\/a><span style=\"font-size:9px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/polldaddy.com\/features-surveys\/\">Market Research<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<\/noscript><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/entertainmentnewsbuzz\/2010\/04\/hulu-pushes-forward-with-995-subscription-service.html\" >Hulu pushes forward with $9.95 subscription service<\/a> [L.A. Times]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After two years of offering free streaming video to its users, a new report says that Hulu is ready to move forward with their plan for charging a subscription fee to access much of the site&#8217;s content. According to the L.A. Times: Under the proposal, Hulu would continue to provide for free the five most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5519,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-541141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5519"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=541141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}