Tech Shout!

NBC Universal and Apple have announced an array of new primetime and classic TV shows on the iTunes Music Store.

NBC Universal programming now available on the iTunes Music Store ranges from the 1950s to the present, including NBC’s “Law & Order,” “The Office,” “Surface,” “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno,” “Late Night with Conan O’Brien,” the USA Network’s “Monk”, Sci-Fi Channel’s “Battlestar Galactica” and TV shows including “Alfred Hitchcock Presents,” “Dragnet,” “Adam-12″ and “Knight Rider”.

Customers can purchase and download their favourite shows, including current shows the day after they air on TV, and watch them on their computer or iPod. The NBC Universal programs will be available in newly assigned areas of the iTunes Music Store featuring the NBC Universal brands, including the NBC network, Sci-Fi Channel and the USA Network.

Steve Jobs, CEO, Apple said, “We’re thrilled to expand the iTunes video catalog with 11 popular TV shows from NBC, USA Network and the Sci-Fi Channel.” He added, “In our first two months we’ve sold more than three million videos, and have expanded our TV catalog from five shows to 16 shows.”

“We are committed to helping viewers enjoy the wide breadth of our programs across an equally wide range of devices and distribution models,” said Bob Wright, vice chairman of GE and chairman and CEO, NBC Universal. “Apple has developed a distribution platform that is attractive to consumers while at the same time providing the safeguards against theft that are so important to us and to every content provider. We are pleased to partner with them in this new venture.”

The iTunes Music Store now features a selection of over 3,000 music videos, Pixar short films, a variety of hit TV shows and more than two million songs from the major music companies as well as from independent record labels.