Verizon this week unveiled their plans to join the cable industry’s “TV Everywhere” initiative — which involves offering paying TV customers (only) the ability to watch some paywalled content online. The industry believes the idea will help them prevent “cord cutters” — or those who turn to Internet video as an alternative to those now often bi-annual TV rate hikes. Verizon says their TV Everywhere offering will arrive in June, and will initially include access to all TNT and TBS shows — assume you subscribe to both FiOS Internet and TV:

Of course Verizon doesn’t want to offer this content to just their Internet customers — lest they cannibalize their own TV revenues. According to the company, access to this content via mobile devices is something that’s in the works.

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