News Corp. plans Web video platform

FROM VARIETY: Media company in talks with rival studios for content

By Steven Zeitchik -- Video Business, 3/8/2007

MARCH 8 | News Corp. is forging ahead on talks with a number of congloms to create a video platform that could compete with YouTube.

“We’re in very active negotiations with all of the media companies to create the most robust video offering from professional content on the Web,” Fox Interactive Media topper Peter Levinsohn told investors at the Bear Stearns confab in Palm Beach, Fla.

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