A+E Syncs With Comcast on TV Everywhere App

Programmer releases iPad video apps for A&E, History and Lifetime content

By Todd Spangler, Multichannel News -- Broadcasting & Cable, 12/13/2012 4:46:58 PM

A+E Networks launched its first iPad video apps for A&E, History and Lifetime with free access to full episodes of the networks' original series and struck a TV Everywhere deal with Comcast, under which the MSO's subscribers can access even more content.

The A+E apps were released Thursday in the Apple iTunes Store, just a few months after many of the programmer's original series were dropped from Netflix. A+E spokesman Dan Silberman said the launch of the apps and the Comcast TV Everywhere pact have "nothing to do with the Netflix deal."

The apps provide full episodes, movies and exclusive clips of A+E programming, including current and previous seasons of: Storage Wars and Duck Dynasty on A&E; Pawn Stars and Swamp People on History; and Dance Moms and Project Runway on Lifetime. A+E already provides some free episodes on its websites.

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