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CNN has launched their free Internet video service today. The link is at http://www.cnn.com/video/ Then click on the "Live Video" link. It is working well here.

Excerpt - NEW YORK (AP) -- CNN will give away access to an online video service that now costs $25 a year, becoming the latest news organization to revamp its revenue model on the Web. Spokeswoman Jennifer Martin said the change, effective July 1, reflected lower costs associated with delivering bandwidth-intensive video. "People don't like to pay for stuff on the Internet," she said. "We're not going to deny it, but we also had to make sure from a cost perspective that we got to the stage where it made sense to offer it for free." ~ snip ~

Excerpt - (CNN) -- As part of its coverage of the fifth anniversary of 9/11, CNN Pipeline will stream CNN's television coverage of September 11, 2001, in real time, as the events of the day unfolded. The free replay on Monday will begin at 8:30 a.m. ET, minutes before the first plane hit the World Trade Center in New York. ~ snip ~

CNN will mark the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks by replaying on the Internet the cable network's coverage of that day's events. Viewers can watch how events unfolded starting at 8:30 a.m., minutes before the first reports of an airplane hitting the World Trade Center. The feed will run in real time, as the network showed it five years ago, until midnight.

I tried it, it's worth a free look. It has four channels of streaming video with CNN International, wild feeds, Mardi Gras cam, etc. No Larry King reruns. http://www.cnn.com/pipeline/freeday/

I am thinking of getting an annual subscription to the CNN pipepile service, I dont have cable at work and this seems like a good alternative..has anyone else tried this out? I know it's CNN. but Fox News doesnt have this type of service yet.