Hulu pulls content from TV.com

18 Feb 2009

Hulu.com has pulled its content off CBS-owned TV.com, which relaunched last month, sources confirmed on Tuesday. (Disclosure: CBS is the publisher of News.com.)

Attempts to access episodes of Heroes and other content from NBC and News Corp. partners in the Hulu joint venture displayed a "video unavailable" message.

A CBS spokeswoman said the company had no comment, and a Hulu spokeswoman did not return a call on the matter.

TV.com saw a 263 percent increase in unique viewers in January after it redesigned and expanded the site and added user interaction features, according to Nielsen VideoCensus figures cited by MediaPost Online. It has 5.9 million unique visitors compared with Hulu's 4.5 million, according to Nielsen figures reported by Advertising Age.

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