Yahoo CEO Terry Semel used his session at the Royal Television Society to urge British programmers to provide original content for Yahoo to distribute and to make their libraries available for video search. This from Semel ( via Reuters): “Video search is a way to monetize some of the stuff that’s lounging around in warehouses and hasn’t made a dime for years.” Hhe tried to allay some concerns, “I don’t think that Yahoo or any other Internet company should try to become a television network. We will be nowhere if we have to create our own content.”
But, as Times Online picked up, he isn’t backing away from original programming. รข
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