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NBC moving out of YouTube

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NBC is allegedly pulling out its official channel on YouTube in preparation for the public launch of its video-sharing site, Hulu. However, both companies are quite silent about this ongoing transition.

Hulu is currently in beta phase but will open to public within this month. Its distribution network includes big players like Yahoo!, MSN, MySpace, and AOL.

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It’s not a surprising move especially when you’re positioning your new video-sharing network as a “YouTube killer”. On the other hand, NBC might want to try the business model by NO GOOD TV to get more than 100 million clip views in just 6 months.

Still, others believe this was just a technical glitch and the partnership that started last year remains strong.

Originally posted on October 24, 2007 @ 1:45 am

AP and NBC Universal join forces on distribution of Beijing Olympics content

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nbc.jpgThe Associated Press has reached an agreement with NBC Sports and NBC Olympics to be the exclusive news agency for the distribution of select, NBC-produced text content and video links related to the 2008 Olympic Games through a premium online product produced by the AP.

The joint effort will provide AP customers with comprehensive Olympics coverage leading up to the 2008 Summer Olympics, as well as during the 17 days of international Beijing competition. AP customers can receive a turnkey solution that will give their users, readers and viewers Olympic content matched with the exclusive video coverage and related content provided by NBC through its NBCOlympics.com web Site.

NBC Universal will present more than 3,600 hours of coverage of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, more than the combined total of every Summer Olympics ever televised in the United States. The Beijing Olympic Games will start August 8, 2008, with unprecedented around-the-clock coverage and, for the first time in the United States, live streaming of Olympic broadband video coverage.

Originally posted on August 22, 2007 @ 10:12 am

NBC to shut down NBBC for a joint venture with Fox

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NBC UniversalNBC Universal is shutting down it’s video content syndication site this week to make way for a joint online video venture with Fox to be launched later this year.

George Kliavkoff, chief digital officer for NBCU and interim CEO for the new site, said that existing NBBC (National Broadband Company) content partners will be given the invitation to join this new venture, including an improved revenue share.

“It’s a broader distribution platform and better economics,” Kliavkoff said. “The revenue split on the business model for New Site provides a higher revenue share for the content partners than NBBC did.”

NBBC, NBCU’s online video syndication site, was launched late last year. There’s still no news as to what the name of this new venture will be, but for now, they’re dubbing it as the New Site.

Originally posted on July 5, 2007 @ 8:42 am

Jason Kilar joins NBC, News Corp; heads online venture to rival YouTube

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Jason KilarNBC Universal and News Corp appoints former Amazon executive Jason Kilar as CEO of the still unnamed online video venture that is said to join the growing battalion of YouTube rivals.

Kilar, 36 years old, joins NBC and News Corp starting July 9 after nearly a decade of being a key executive at Amazon.

“Jason’s product and consumer expertise in the world of e-commerce is arguably unrivaled in this business and gives him a great insight into what it takes to create a superior user interface,” Peter Chernin, President and COO of News Corp. “We already have access to world-class content and near ubiquitous distribution, and the next step is marrying it with the features and tools that will help define the ideal user experience for video content on the web. We think Jason is the ideal person to lead that effort.”

Meanwhile, this online video venture to be headed by Kilar debuts later this year and is said to surprise us with thousands of hours of full-length programming, movies and clips from various networks and film studios. Partnering with Yahoo, AOL, Microsoft, MySpace, CNet, Comcast, among others, they are said to have access to about 98% of the monthly unique users on the Internet in US alone.

Originally posted on June 29, 2007 @ 12:59 am

New content partners for News Corp. and NBC Universal’s online video venture announced

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News Corp. and NBC Universal announced the addition of Fuel TV, Oxygen, Speed, Sundance Channel and TV Guide as content partners to their upcoming online video joint venture.

“Each of our new content partners has a reputation for creating premium entertainment experiences designed to fulfill television viewers’ more eclectic needs. We are delighted they have all agreed to contribute their compelling content to our venture, which will help ensure our ability to satisfy the more personalised demands of the growing number of Web video consumers,” George Kliavkoff, NBC Universal chief digital officer said.

Originally posted on June 4, 2007 @ 7:14 pm