SOCIAL networking website MySpace has signed a landmark deal with the BBC in a move that will bring it into direct competition with YouTube.BBC Worldwide has launched a video channel on MySpace TV that features short clips from selected shows including Doctor Who, The Catherine Tate Show and Parkinson.
“This is the first global content deal that any social network has done,” said Rebekah Horne, vice president of Fox Interactive Media and MySpace in Australia and New Zealand.
The BBC’s clips will be up to eight minutes in length and will include archival footage.
MySpace Australia has also signed a major deal with the ABC to launch a channel next week with clips from Summer Heights High, The Chaser’s War On Everything and Enough Rope With Andrew Denton.
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