NBCU Shuts Down NBBC (Multichannel News)

Executive Quote and Information Service : EQUIS,  July, 2007  

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NBC Universal last week shut down its video aggregation and distribution service NBBC before it got off the ground. The movie producer and TV programmer instead decided to put its broadband-video efforts behind its new broadband co-venture with News Corp.

NBBC, which was announced in September 2006 amid much fanfare, had signed up about 150 content partners -- including A&E Television Networks, The Horror Channel, Vibe Media Group, CNET Networks and Forbes.com -- that could upload content to a digital player for other partners to access as part of their Web sites.

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