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ESPN, ABC Sports content coming to iTunes Music Store
Sports fans rejoice! Sports programming is officially coming to the iTunes Music Store starting today. ESPN and ABC Sports will be offering sports programs on iTMS. ABC Sports programming will kick off today when condensed versions of yesterday's Tostitos Fiesta Bowl and Nokia Sugar Bowl will be available. Today's Orange Bowl and tomorrow's Rose Bowl will each be available the day after they air.Later this month we'll see content from ESPN, including The Best of the X Games, Sports Century interviews, This is Sports Center commercials, and Knight School (an upcoming reality program starring Texas Tech basketball coach Bobby Knight).The Walt Disney Company will be also be offering some new non-sports programming on iTMS later this month. Promised programs include: Wildfire - an ABC Family original series; Kim Possible, and The Proud Family - Disney Channel animated series; Soapography - SOAPnet's original biography series; America's Funniest Home Videos; School House Rock vignettes; and Ebert & Roeper episodes. iTMS will also offer free, ad-supported video podcasts from ABC News, including segments from the Good Morning America and World News Tonight webcast.As of this writing, we don't see the promised sports content on iTMS. Let us know as soon as you see it.UPDATE - 5 p.m. EST - The Fiesta Bowl and Sugar Bowl highlights are now available for $1.99 each.[via Business Wire]
Christmas has been good to the iTunes Music Store
The Australian is reporting that the iTunes Music Store saw a 50% traffic increase on December 24th and 25th as people rushed to fill their new iPods with video (we know a bunch of you got them) with tunes and videos. Downloads for this week are over 650,000 and may break a million downloads which would be a first.This also represents a 15% traffic increase for the iTMS since last Christmas.So, dear TUAWers, did you help with these numbers by downloading something from the iTMS this holiday season?
Contribute to hurricane Katrina relief via the iTunes Music Store
This post is just a quick break from our usual Apple-centric coverage. The catastrophe in America's Gulf Coast is really all I can think about lately. The video I see on the news every night is almost surreal in its unimaginable horror. I don't even pretend to be able to understand what those people are being forced to endure. I think about my own kids and I just can't imagine it.A donation link that will send funds directly to the Red Cross has been added to the iTunes Music Store. I've read that monetary donations are more effective that sending "things" just now, like clothing, etc, as they only clog up the already congested distribution of goods. If you can, consider making a donation.
