Hulu PLans to Start Charging for Its Content

Filed in archive Video and Audio on October 25, 2009

Ben Parr over at Mashable had a piece this week about the persistent rumors that Hulu would soon start charging for its content.

Now those rumors are sounding more like a sure thing. At a broadcasting summit in New York today, News Corp. Deputy Chairman Chase Carey declared that “it’s time to start getting paid for broadcast content online.”

The Inquisitr said much the same thing.

Wikipedia describes Hulu as "a website that offers commercial-supported streaming video of TV shows and movies from NBC, Fox, ABC and many other networks and studios." Hulu uses video in Flash format. It also provides web syndication services for other websites including AOL, MSN, MySpace, Facebook, Yahoo!, and Comcast's fancast.com.

Until now the service has been free.