'Daily' sold monthly.(Apple Computer Inc. iTunes Music Store's iTunes video-download service prices)(Comedy Central's The Daily Show With Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report.)(Brief article)

Multichannel News, March, 2006 by Umstead, R. Thomas

Apple Computer Inc. will show some pricing and packaging flexibility with its iTunes video-download service by offering a $9.99 monthly subscription package for Comedy Central's The Daily Show With ]on Stewart and The Colbert Report. The new "Multi-Pass" feature on iTunes will allow iPod users with video-enabled versions to buy 16 new episodes a month of each show for $9.99.

Consumers who opt for the package will get episodes downloaded automatically by 8 a.m. (ET) the morning after they air on the channel, Comedy Central said last week. Consumers can still buy individual episodes of both shows for $1.99 each. It's the first time that full-length installments of The Daily Show or The Colbert Report have been made available outside of the Comedy...