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CBC to expand its YouTube presence

CBC Television will be putting more videos online on its YouTube channel, and will even be adding some full-length programs to the mix. Plans call for some of the popular episodic entertainment shows as well as more documentaries.

In related news, the CRTC this morning released its report on Canadian broadcasting, which includes a New Media category. It found that 70% of Canadian households now subscribe to the Internet (60% of which have high-speed access), and 22% of Canadians have listened to radio online.

A whopping 58% of Canadians used a cellphone to access the Internet, and 23% own a MP3 player of some kind.

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6 Responses to “CBC to expand its YouTube presence”

redandjonny says:

So the Fifth Estate will join the ranks of some goof ball beating up a stuffed giraffe in the snow to the tune of Afternoon Delight?
ie:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otE9O8hIIBY

BTW:
CBC youtube link is broken. please fix so we can subscribe.

Response: Oops - thanks!

CapitalCat says:

I can hardly wait for the kid to start crying, “Leave Robert Rabinovich alone!”

Gabriel Hurley says:

Youtube, while popular, generally has poor video quality and is not really made for clips more than 3 minutes long. CBC should try a video website that would allow them to take advantage of their high-quality stuff. Or even better, work to get more of their content available on Miro player (ie: RSS video distribution).

Gabriel Hurley says:

…blip.tv is comparable to Youtube, but allows much better quality.

Allan says:

Of all the cellphones that access the internet, only half of them play Mp3’s?
That’s rather surprising.

Kev says:

Video quality isn’t as important as network effect, that’s why Youtube owns that space at the moment. To be anywhere else would be foolish.

That said, Miro is an interesting app. There’s already an Hour video podcast that you could pull with it, and there are bound to be others that I don’t know about.

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