Networks Outsource Their Networking

To build Shudder, [Paul Rehrig,AMC] hired DramaFever, one of more than two dozen businesses working behind the scenes to set up dedicated online homes for old-school media companies. Some of the new online destinations make their money from ads; others, from subscriptions, like the small packages of streaming TV channels out or coming by yearend from Comcast, Verizon, Dish Network, Apple, and Sony. Outsourced streaming-platform development has become a $527 million business, researcher SNL Kagan estimates. - Bloomberg Businessweek [via/web:http://streaming-tv.us]