YouTube - BBC Channel

YouTube - BBC Worldwide Channel

From “PC Magazine” via Yahoo News:

Under a new non-exclusive deal between Google’s YouTube and the British Broadcasting Corp. (BBC), YouTube will begin airing clips from the UK public service broadcaster’s news, TV series, documentaries, and other programs on its site.

The deal, announced on Friday, includes the current availability of two branded entertainment channels that will each provide short clips of BBC’s content, as well as the addition of a third news-oriented channel later in 2007.

One channel, called “BBC Worldwide,” will show clips from programs such as “Top Gear,” “Spooks,” and various David Attenborough nature documentaries, the BBC said, while a similar channel, called “BBC World,” will air news clips from the broadcast company’s commercially operated international news channel of the same name.

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From a BBC press release:

The partnership, which will build over time, comprises three elements:

• From the BBC: Clips of new shows and specially commissioned promotional content linked to popular series such as Doctor Who and Life On Mars. At launch, the YouTube community will be able to enjoy a range of specially-created video diaries including David Tennant and Freema Agyeman, who’ll take viewers around the set of Doctor Who; John Simm going back in time for Life On Mars; and Clive Myrie on the streets of the red zone of Baghdad.
• From BBC Worldwide: An entertainment channel called “BBC Worldwide” showing clips from material such as Top Gear, Spooks, The Catherine Tate Show, The Mighty Boosh and a range of factual programmes including those presented by David Attenborough. The channel will include a limited amount of advertising.
• From BBC World, the BBC’s international commercial television channel: Around 30 news clips per day will be offered, with up-to-the-minute news and analysis from around the world. The advertising-funded clips will be available to users outside the UK only.

Users will be able to comment on clips, rate them, recommend them to friends and post their own video responses to communicate with the BBC and other viewers.

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