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Amazon Does A Hulu: To Stream CBS Show Days After Airing

By TechTaffy Desk

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CBS  and Amazon have signed a content-licensing agreement for the television series Under the Dome, establishing an in-season, online subscription-video-on-demand (SVOD) window for the show on Amazon’s Prime Instant Video service.

Amazon Prime members will have unlimited streaming of all the series’ episodes four days after their initial broadcast on CBS. Episodes of Under the Dome will also be available for purchase and download exclusively at Amazon Instant Video.

Under the Dome, a serialized drama from Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Television, based on Stephen King’s  novel of the same name, will premiere on the CBS Television Network on June 24, 2013.

[Image courtesy: CBS]

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