Netflix and Amazon each announced separate deals today with Disney-ABC Television Group to extend their licenses to continue streaming their TV shows.
The Netflix deal includes library episodes from ABC Studios, Disney Channel and ABC Family over the Internet. As part of the deal, Netflix is also adding new content to its lineup of Disney-ABC series and TV movies. In the U.S. episodes from new seasons of current Disney-ABC series will be made available to Netflix 30-days after the last episode of each season airs, which includes:
- Prior season episodes of ABC current hit series “Grey’s Anatomy,” “Desperate Housewives,” and “Private Practice”
- All episodes of recent ABC favorites “Lost,” “Brothers & Sisters,” and “Ugly Betty”
- Prior season episodes of critically-acclaimed “Army Wives” from ABC Studios
- Popular series from ABC Family including “The Secret Life of the American Teenager,” “Melissa & Joey,” and “Make It or Break It”
- A wide range of content from Disney Channel including series “Phineas and Ferb,” ” Good Luck Charlie,” “The Suite Life on Deck,” and “Hannah Montana”
New content from Disney-ABC that will be added to the Netflix service include:
- ABC Family’s smash hit series “Switched at Birth”
- Prior season episodes of Disney Channel’s animated series “Kick Buttowski”
- All episodes of the ABC thriller “Alias”
Amazon’s agreement adds adds more than 800 library (ABC) episodes to Prime instant video collection including hit ABC TV shows such as “Grey’s Anatomy” and “Lost” along with library content from ABC Studios, Disney Channel, ABC Family and Marvel.
Popular Disney-ABC Television Group offerings for Prime members will include:
- Prior seasons of current ABC hit series “Grey’s Anatomy”
- All episodes of recent ABC favorite “Lost”
- Prior seasons of Disney Channel’s popular animated series “Phineas & Ferb”
- Prior seasons of ABC Family’s groundbreaking series “The Secret Life of the American Teenager,” including the most recently aired episodes from summer 2011
- Prior seasons of Marvel’s animated shows “Spider-Man,” “X-Men Evolution,” “Thor & Loki: Blood Brothers” and “Iron Man: Extremis”
- All episodes of ABC Family’s “Greek”
- All episodes of “Felicity” from ABC Studios
Amazon Prime offers unlimited Movie/TV streaming for $79 per year.
Netflix offers unlimited Movie/TV streaming for $7.99 per month ($95.88 year).
