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hulu is killing its free video service first reported by The Hollywood Reporter and confirmed at the Wall Street Journal hula will end its ad supported free version in a few weeks hulu users will receive a notice in the coming days however you might not have to pay to see video from hulu yahoo is introducing a new site called yahoo view their viewers will find full-length TV shows and movies for free a good deal of every content is coming from hulu that stuff will be ad supported yahoo view is already live at view yahoo com newer shows from ABC Fox and NBC will be available on yahoo view eight days after they first air that's not the only change at hulu earlier in August Time Warner purchased a ten percent stake of Hulu for 583 million dollars Time Warner will be bringing live streams of its content as well as on-demand video to hulu cartoon network CNN TBS and TNT are just some of the networks that will join hulu with a Time Warner deal hulu is currently owned by four companies Disney 21st Century Fox and Comcast each own thirty percent the remaining ten percent is Time Warner's unlike the other owners Time Warner will not be putting current seasons on the paid version of Hulu expect Time Warner content on whose upcoming cable like streaming service who launched in late two thousand seven backed by TV networks to combat piracy on sites like YouTube according to research company emarketer hulu lads behind netflix and amazon prime end users will see if any of these moves produce results for hulu and with that I Maya's Akhtar you can keep up with the hottest tech stories at cnet com / update you