– BitTorrent To Launch next Week: BitTorrent will launch a marketplace of licensed movies, TV shows, video games and music next week. While details of pricing and available titles have yet to be unveiled, the company says it has cut deals with 40 studios, production houses and game publishers.
— Web Sports Invade Cable TV: World Championship Sports Network, an online sports startup, has signed a deal with Granite Broadcasting to provide sports programming on basic cable TV in eight major markets in U.S. WCSN focuses on Olympic sports such as track and field, the kind of fare that Americans can’t get enough of during the Olympics every four years and ignore during the intervening years.
— Online lifestyle content syndicator Studio One Networks has struck a deal with all 25 Fox-owned-and-operated TV station websites, as well as 170 local media outlets represented by WorldNow, which include several prominent ABC and NBC affiliate sites. In addition to the new content outlets, Studio One also announced that it has renewed its ongoing distribution arrangement with AOL.
— TV stations are not required to negotiate deals covering their over-the-air programming to entities that stream video over the Internet, CBS told the Federal Communications Commission in response to a complaint brought against it by Virtual Digital Cable. The company alleged that CBS’ Chicago affiliate, WBBM-TV, refused to negotiate a carriage deal in violation of the legal requirement to bargain in good faith with multichannel-video-programming distributors. VDC, a start-up based in Northbrook, Ill., has been streaming a few-dozen programming services on the web, hoping to deliver video programming to audience locations where computers outnumber TV screens.
— Supermodel/talk show host Tyra Banks is recreating an online version of her afternoon gabfest as a “virtual studio” within Music Lounge, a 3-D virtual world operated by San Francisco online community developer Doppelganger. Banks fans can hang out online and chat using digital replicas of themselves, or avatars. She’s already made one visit, hosting an invite-only, virtual post-Grammy party on Feb. 12.
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