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Fox, Viacom, CBS and NBC discuss YouTube Rival

From the "How do we cash in on that?!?" Department:

This is just about the most retarded thing I've ever heard of... Don't the big media companies get it?

Via Reuters.

News Corp.'s Fox, Viacom Inc., CBS Corp.. and NBC Universal are in talks about creating a video Web site to compete with Google Inc.'s YouTube, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.

While a deal is still far off, the four media companies envision a jointly owned site that would be the primary Web source for videos from their television networks, the paper said in an online report on wsj.com, citing people close to the situation.

The companies aim to cash in on the fast-growing market of Web video advertising and have also discussed building a Web video player that could play clips, the Journal said.

posted by Fergie @ 12/08/2006 10:09:00 PM