ABC Family Gets WATCH Live Streaming Service

BURBANK: The new WATCH ABC Family offering, which launches today, offers viewers with participating TV subscription services access to 24-hour viewing of the network on a variety of devices.

The launch of WATCH ABC Family follows on the success of the WATCH ABC offering and three authenticated WATCH Disney services: WATCH Disney Channel, WATCH Disney XD and WATCH Disney Junior. At launch, the WATCH ABC Family app will be available on iOS and Kindle Fire devices, as well as select Android tablets, including Samsung Galaxy devices. Select Android phones, as well as Blackberry and Windows 8 devices, will be able to access the WATCH ABC Family service later this month.

“We are excited to continue to expand the breadth of our authenticated services with the launch of WATCH ABC Family,” said Albert Cheng,  the executive VP and chief product officer for digital media at Disney/ABC Television Group. “Our portfolio of WATCH offerings, which have quickly become the industry standard for authenticated services, were designed in collaboration with our distribution partners to ensure that these products would add value for them and strengthen the MVPD ecosystem while still meeting the ever-evolving needs of our audience.”