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Although Electronic Arts recently let its unsolicited offer to buy up Take-Two Interactive expire, the two companies are reportedly in negotiations about some type of partnerships or acquisition. EA wants a slice of Take-Two franchises like Grand Theft Auto and BioShock and has promised to let the company keep spinning out its “edgy”—and often controversial—game titles.
Billing itself as the first broadcast-quality Internet television service, Joost has officially launched commercial operations. Combining more than 150 channels from a variety of content partners with Web 2.0 social networking and community driven features, the new Internet video service from Skype founders Janus Friis and Niklas Zennström is currently a front-runner in the race to capitalize on the burgeoning Internet video market—and, to that end, Joost has aligned itself with more than 30 "blue-chip" brands like Intel, Coca-Cola, Hewlett-Packard, and Nike—eager to get their brands and messages in front of Joosts likely young and technically hip demographic.
Leading online retailer Amazon and the National Hockey League struck up a content deal today in which users of Amazon’s online video download service will be able to enjoy NHL videos for a fee. This new Amazon Unbox offering is available now.
Under the agreement between NHL and Amazon, the Amazon Unbox service will begin offering three or more NHL games each week during the regular season and playoffs as well as classic NHL games. Games are available for download as soon as 48 hours after game time ends for $2.99. Dozens of classic games from the NHL’s archives also are available, including "the 1994 Stanley Cup Final in which the New York Rangers defeated the Vancouver Canucks, the 1993 Western Conference Final game between the Toronto Maple Leafs and Los Angeles Kings featuring Wayne Gretzky, and the 1997 Stanley Cup Final in which the Detroit Red Wings topped the Philadelphia Flyers."
XM Satellite Radio announced today that it has reached a 10-year, $100 million agreement with the National Hockey League to the rights to broadcast NHL games, starting in October 2005. Canadian Satellite Radio (CSR), XM’s Canadian broadcasting partner, is funding an unspecified portion of the agreement.
XM’s deal with the NHL adds to the broadcaster’s portfolio of sports offerings, which also include Nascar auto racing, PGA Tour golf, and Major League Baseball. XM says it plans to provide play-by-play coverage of more than 1,000 games each season—including NHL All-Star Game, the Stanley Cup Playoffs and the Stanley Cup Final—on a dedicated NHL channel. XM also plans to roll out a 24-hour, seven-day-a-week NHL talk radio channel.
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