FiOS Adds YouTube

NEW YORK: Subscribers to Verizon’s FiOS TV service can now access YouTube directly from their television screens, along with hundreds of Internet radio stations.

The Internet radio and Internet videos services are accessible via Media Manager, which already allows subscribers to search and view on their TVs user-generated content from blip.tv, Dailymotion and Veoh. The Media Manager service is now also available to all FiOS TV HD customers—it was previously only available to DVR customers.

"Adding YouTube and Internet Radio to FiOS TV further expands our customers’ digital home-entertainment world by giving them access to an unprecedented amount of online content on the biggest screen in their home—their TV," said Shawn Strickland, the VP of consumer strategy for Verizon. "When customers connect their homes to our all-fiber network, their TV and Internet worlds seamlessly come together to create experiences cable can’t deliver. We are working with some of the most popular companies on the web to create a high-quality, engaging Internet-to-TV experience that will only grow richer with time."