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Disney-ABC Domestic Television says that it is teaming with Comcast, Charter, Cox, AT&T U-verse, Suddenlink and Verizon FiOS TV to offer what will be the first "free preview" promotion for its Disney Family Movies subscription VOD service (note: the latter offers classic and contemporary films and animated shorts from The Walt Disney Studios, with each title remaining in rotation for around a month and new movies added on a weekly basis).

ABC Family recently teamed with Lycos to enable social TV services around the show, "The Secret Life of the American Teenager." Fans of the show were able to go to abcfamily.com or secretlife.lycos.com to participate in "online viewing parties" where they could watch episodes of the show while chatting about it in real time. Viewers could also host their own private viewing parties through Lycos's Watch & Interact platform, which allowed them to schedule private online screening rooms. The platform lets screening room hosts pause, rewind and fast- forward programs while discussing them with other participants.