The big boys keep jockeying for position in the race for your online viewing habits on a daily basis it seems. This time it's NBC which is moving in another direction, away from YouTube. For the last year, NBC Universal was hawking its wares on YouTube, the better to provide you with your fix of clips from "The Office", "Saturday Night Live" and "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" but no longer...
NBC will be doing the hula with Hulu. Hulu.com will provide online clips and full episodes of NBC shows but they won't focus on user-generated clips like YouTube. NBC programming, in addition to hulu.com, will be distributed on MySpace, Yahoo!, MSN, AOL and Comcast. NBC may also include YouTube sometime in the near future too. YouTube will continue to share revenue and provide clips from CBS, SonyBMG, Warner Music Group, Showtime and Universal Music however...
Clips of NBC shows will continue to show up on YouTube via user-uploaded clips as long as there's not a copyright infringement or the clip is pirated. That's what's great about YouTube's position. As long as they claim they will respond immediately to any requests to stop showing something at the request of the offended company, they're in the clear. You can't beat that...
10 Timeline Memories:
- 1915] Suffragettes: 25,000-30,000 women march on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan demanding the right to vote...
- 1946] UN meets to greet: The United Nations General Assembly convenes for the first time in a Flushing Meadows auditorium...
- 1956] Debuted on this date: NBC-TV broadcasts the first video tape coast-to-coast. It's a tape of Jonathan Winters performing...
- 1973] Dead air: President Richard M. Nixon agrees to turn over the Watergate tapes as the clock ticks...
- 1983] Beirut blast: A suicide truck bombing at Beirut International Airport in Lebanon kills 241 U.S. Marines and sailors. Another attack kills 58 French paratroopers...
- 1989] Bizarre Boston story: Charles Stuart claims that he and his pregnant wife had been shot by a black robber. Carol Stuart and her prematurely delivered baby died. Stuart, who was white, was later implicated in the shootings and apparently committed suicide. Here's the news coverage, introduced by William Shatner: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVLUePl4ngI ...
- 1993] Walk-off: Toronto Blue Jays outfielder Joe Carter hits the 2nd walk-off home run in World Series history and for the first time a team from outside the U.S. wins the Fall Classic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nN9PM-YtPrs . Bill Mazeroski of the Pirates hit the 1st walk-off HR in Series history to beat the Yankees in 1960...
- 1998] Sniper attack: Dr. Barnett Slepian, an abortion doctor was killed at his home in suburban Buffalo when a sniper fired through his kitchen window. James Kopp is convicted of the murder and is serving 25-to-life in prison...
- 1998] Land-for-Peace: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat sign a land-for-peace agreement at the White House...
- 2004] "Happy Trails": Legendary tenor Robert Merrill, a fixture singing our national anthem and 'God Bless America' at Yankee Stadium, dies at 87 while watching game one of the 2004 World Series (Red Sox-Cardinals) at home...
Music Memories:
- 1965] Released on this date: 1965] "Turn, Turn, Turn" - Byrds (my daughter Lynn's 1st favorite song): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUworKXBzdE ...
"Happy Birthday...happy birthday":
Al Leiter (42), Doug Flutie (45), Weird Al Yankovic (48), Dwight Yoakam (51), Barbara Ann Hawkins (64) (Of the Dixie Cups seen here going to the chapel: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7k_1IrpcU8 ), Michael Crichton (65), Pele (67) and baseball hall-of-famer/Senator Jim Bunning (76)...
Timeline Countdown: One day away from the World Series opener, 8 nights until Halloween, 12 days until Standard Time and 23 days until Thanksgiving...
