Stop Overreacting: Hulu Not Ditching Free Yet

Courtesy Techdirt  Fri, 10/23/2009 - 14:00

A ton of readers here have been submitting various versions of stories claiming that Hulu is getting rid of free content .

I'd been ignoring the story, because it's a non-story at this point. But people keep submitting it, so let's go through the details.

Basically, at a Broadcasting & Cable event, News Corp. Deputy Chairman Chase Carey basically said that free content isn't the best way to monetize and that Hulu "concurs." Here's specifically how B&C reported...

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