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Online comedy studio JibJab is keeping up their end of year tradition, releasing a new online parody “Nuckin' Futs,” summarizing and satirizing American culture in 2006. Set to the well-known “Jingle Bells” melody, the spoof features a chorus of school children singing about public figures like Britney Spears, Donald Rumsfeld, Lance Bass, and Mel Gibson, as well as international figures like Saddam Hussein and… Read More

NBC has announced a strategic partnership with video-sharing site YouTube to highlight clips and promos from upcoming and classic NBC shows on the YouTube site. Selections might include clips from shows like The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and Saturday Night Live, behind-the-scenes footage, Internet-exclusive material, as well as a contest (running June 26 to July 21) for fans of NBC show The Office to create their own 20-second promotional… Read More

Cable operator Comcastannounced today it has struck a deal with NBC to offer television programming from NBC's broadcast and cable networks via Comcast's On Demand service beginning in May, 2006, at prices lower than those for the same programming for sale via Apple's iTunes Music Store. NBC prime-time programming will be available to Comcast video-on-demand customers for $0.99 per episode as early as midnight following… Read More

It's possible Google surprised absolutely no one: at his keynote today at the 2006 Consumer Electronics Show, Google co-founder Larry Page took the wraps off the Google Video Store, officially putting the Internet giant in the content distribution business. Expected to be available “shortly,” the Google Video Store will enable users to buy or rent video content provided by independent producers and film makers, along with… Read More

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From “must-see TV” to “must-see on iPod,”: Apple Computer and NBC Universal announced today that NBC is making an broad swath of television programming available for download via Apple's increasingly mis-named iTunes Music Store for $1.99 per episode. Apple says it's sold more than 3 million videos since it began offering video downloads in via iTunes October 12; the agreement with NBC expands iTunes's… Read More