Move Inc. to launch Realtor.com TV channel

Realtor.com operator Move Inc. says it will venture into the television landscape this year by launching an on-demand video channel devoted to property listings. Move announced today that it will launch the Realtor.com Channel with RealBizMedia, a provider of home tours and videos online and on television. RealBizMedia's "Home Tour Network" Video On Demand platform, which debuted last fall, will power the channel, which is set to go live sometime in the second half of this year. The companies did not disclose the financial terms of the agreement. While the idea of interactive television has been around since at least the 1990s, only recently have major companies like Microsoft, Apple, Google and Amazon been making strides in that direction, Errol Samuelson, president of Realtor.com, told Inman News. "There's lots of thought right now of how television converges with the other big experiences in your life, which is mobile and your computer. Five years from now television is ...