TV sites to launch ‘YouNewsTV’
Cory Bergman March 4th, 2007
Stations owned by Fisher Communications, Journal Broadcast Group and Granite Broadcasting will soon launch a user video initiative powered by Broadcast Interactive Media. Called YouNewsTV, it will allow users to upload their own video, which will be vetted before it appears online. Users can share the video or embed it on their own blogs. As part of the revenue-sharing deal with Broadcast Interactive, the clips will have pre-roll ads, both on the TV sites and in the embedded experience. “If the video is not suitable to have advertising or is copyrighted material, it is not going up,” says Timur Yarnall, president/CEO of Broadcast Interactive. YouNewsTV is cleared to launch in more than 30 markets by midyear, with the first coming later this month.
2 Comments Add your own
1. invitedmedia | March 5th, 2007 at 8:37 am
how long do you think it will be until Broadcasting & Cable adds Internet to their name?
afterall, they bill themselves as the “business of television”.
2. Alyssa | March 5th, 2007 at 3:20 pm
So, do I make any $$ from this? After all, I’m giving them my video to use before those pre-rolls that advertisers are paying to put there….
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