Channel 4 has signed a landmark deal with YouTube, becoming the first broadcaster worldwide to make full-length TV shows such as Skins, Hollyoaks and Peep Show available to users of the Google-owned video-sharing website.
The deal, which has been under negotiation for the last six months, will see Channel 4 make its existing 4oD online video catch-up service available via YouTube shortly after shows have aired on TV.
Friday, October 16, 2009
Channel 4's YouTube deal
From Mark Sweney in Media Guardian:
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This will undoubtedly change the way we watch TV forever and is a great move. They just need to find a way to eradicate buffering now...
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If this deal continues with other programmes, will the actors, writers and directors be paid accordingly?
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ReplyDeleteRest assured the Guild is taking up all of this on behalf of our members with Channel 4 in our current negotiations.