Viacom announces broadcast deal with Joost

Filed in archive Newsdesk 2.0 on February 21, 2007

Viacom will be teaming up with Joost to provide TV shows from MTV, BET Networks and Paramount Pictures on the P2P internet TV platform. Joost aims to be a TV replacement service where you are free of schedules and have control over what you watch, when you want to watch it. Several companies are running TV replacement services, and it seems to be an interesting market with loads of developments. A lot of people were expecting Viacom to signup with Youtube, as the latter also aims to be a TV replacement and currently has enough exposure to do so. It was only after Viacom's request to remove 100,000 clips from Youtube recently that people started to think Viacom might choose another partner for TV broadcast content.

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