Hulu Giving Its Media Conglomerate Owners a Headache
The Hulu.com numbers in today’s LA Times piece by Dawn C. Chmielewski and Meg James are pretty staggering: 27 million unique visitors per month, expected 2011 revenues of $500 million.
But that’s a pittance compared to what the service’s owners – Walt Disney Co., News Corp., and NBC Universal – make annually from cable and satellite TV subscription models. This big three’s concerns about the erosion of their traditional business model has led to a tug-of-war with Hulu CEO Jason Kilar, a high-flyer recruited from Amazon.com:
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