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11-05-2003, 10:09
MTV joins MP3 bandwagon
MTV will join the throng offering digital music online when it launches a music download service in 2004.
MTV chief Tom Freston told Reuters (http://biz.yahoo.com/rc/031103/media_mtv_1.html): "The service will debut within the first half of next year. It will compete with iTunes and everyone else."
Inside Digital Media analyst Phil Leigh said: "There's no doubt MTV is a strong brand, with a strong profile of viewers. But it can't rely solely on its brand come next year.
?After iTunes launched in April, MTV should have been like a hawk on a field mouse."
Within three-and-a-half days of the release of iTunes for Windows in October, Apple claimed that one million Windows users downloaded iTunes software and that a million songs were sold.
source (http://www.macworld.co.uk/)
MTV will join the throng offering digital music online when it launches a music download service in 2004.
MTV chief Tom Freston told Reuters (http://biz.yahoo.com/rc/031103/media_mtv_1.html): "The service will debut within the first half of next year. It will compete with iTunes and everyone else."
Inside Digital Media analyst Phil Leigh said: "There's no doubt MTV is a strong brand, with a strong profile of viewers. But it can't rely solely on its brand come next year.
?After iTunes launched in April, MTV should have been like a hawk on a field mouse."
Within three-and-a-half days of the release of iTunes for Windows in October, Apple claimed that one million Windows users downloaded iTunes software and that a million songs were sold.
source (http://www.macworld.co.uk/)