Rivals react to the explosive Dish-Disney pact

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The future of TV viewing is coming into view -- and it’s all about streaming.

Less than 24 hours after Dish Network signed a groundbreaking deal with Disney that gave the satellite TV service the building blocks of an Internet TV operation, a second company waded into the sector. Verizon is looking to sign deals with content partners to bring a mobile Internet TV service to its FiOS customers, CEO Lowell McAdams said.

CBS, while happy with the current cable ecosystem, is also eyeing new and appropriate ways to add revenue, CEO Leslie Moonves said. “Everybody’s talking about over the top,” he said. “We’re talking about it with many of the [pay TV distributors] we’re in business with.” The race to own the entertainment space on the Web is being waged by a host of other players as well, including Sony, Microsoft and Amazon.


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