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Online Video, gizmodo, hulu, nbc, top, youtube

NBC pulls YouTube channel

NBC Universal has quietly pulled the official channel on YouTube the two companies established last June. Of course, that was a long time ago, in Internet years, and the relationship had run its course. NBC got buzz for a revived Saturday Night Live and The Office, and YouTube, through the sheen of legitimacy NBC gave it, got a $1.65 billion buyout. With NBC set to launch its own video site, the laughably named Hulu, the pulling of the YouTube plug was just a matter of time. Speaking of time: Could this move be a sign that Hulu, scheduled for "private beta" testing this month, is finally ready?

10:58 AM on Sun Oct 21 2007
By Owen Thomas
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benhomer at 04:39 PM on 10/21/07
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Did you actually get confirmation that NBC has officially ended their relationship with YouTube and that this isn't just a glitch or intern idiocy? I guess we'll find out Monday.
Jake Jarvis at 06:09 PM on 10/21/07
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If it was a glitch, I'm pretty confident it would have been corrected by now.
davidfbecker at 08:18 PM on 10/21/07
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What??? No more Dick In A Box??? Crap...
NotMe at 11:36 AM on 10/22/07
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I guess NBC wanted to offer "more flexibility" to YouTube viewers, like they're doing with iTunes Music Store.

Duh. Watch NBC totally destroy their online channels, and have to crawl back and kiss Apple's shiny little apple ass.
From: WWW.TECHDIRT.COM: TRACKBACK at 02:57 PM on 10/22/07
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Perhaps no company has had more of a love-hate affair with YouTube than NBC. On practically a weekly basis over the past year or so it seems like NBC's official position on YouTube switches back and forth.
From: WWW.TECHCRUNCH.COM: TRACKBACK at 11:03 AM on 10/23/07
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After gearing up all summer, Hulu (the NBC-Fox joint venture that is going up against YouTube) was supposed to launch in private beta yesterday, says a source. That is why NBC pulled its videos from YouTube last week.