Apple is expected to announce in June an online TV service, which will be released three months later. The service will provide 25 channels, including ABC, CBS and Fox, and will have a monthly cost 30-40 dollars, advances the Wall Street Journal .
According to the newspaper, citing sources close to the process, Apple has been in talks with Walt Disney, CBS and the 21st Century Fox, among other industry, to create the service, a work that the technology company has strengthened in recent years to bring the plan to create a subscription television service that can operate over the Internet.
The idea of Apple is to create a package of channels at a price low cost , which can rival the traditional services by cable television, which can reach the United States, for example, $ 100 a month.
The new service will be available for Apple devices branded with iOS system, including Apple TV, a device that makes the wireless connection between the computer and the television for playback of multimedia content such as music, videos, Podcasts and photographs. Announced still under the command of Steve Jobs in 2006, Apple TV had hitherto little one warm welcome.
In the 9th, Apple announced a partnership with HBO to launch HBO NOW, an exclusive service of streaming video, for $ 15 a month, in what was a first step towards the ultimate goal which is to reach the public in September.
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