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An hour or so ago, General Electric Company (NYSE:GE) unit NBC and News Corporation (NYSE:NWS) made flashing top-billed headlines throughout the world of journalism. "NBC, News Corp plan video site in challenge to Google's YouTube!" says the Wall Street Journal. "NBC and News Corp. to Create YouTube Rival," says the New York Times.

But on further investigation it's not clear how directly the two sites (NBC's is as-yet-unnamed) will compete. The NBC/News Corp partnership has an entirely different strategy than the user-generated flavor of YouTube. The announcement mentions that episodes of popular TV shows like 24, Heroes, and The Simpsons, as well as recently-released movies like Little Miss Sunshine will be distributed through the special NBC/News Corp online video player. What's more, internet portals (the real Google rivals) like Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO), Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT)'s MSN and Time Warner Inc. (NYSE:TWX)'s AOL will be distributing this content and, if statements from the big three are any indication, creating their own to redistribute through the cozy network.

While I'm sure there is every intention of accepting (and, one would imagine, encouraging) user-created content, it seems to me that this is so far beside the point. This video portal is about controlling the distribution of (and gaining revenue from the ads placed against) the old media companies' proprietary content. It's if-you-can't-beat-em-join-em. It's smart! It's a well-orchestrated strategy. But it's not NBC vs. YouTube.

NBC vs. Google: Old media meets the YouTube nation? originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Thu, 22 Mar 2007 14:56:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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