YouTube TV Channel?

By Loren Baker, Editor | January 12, 2007

C21Media.net has a small write up of YouTube’s aspirations to build TV channels with traditional television networks.

YouTube and Google have been working with networks to bring the content, or samples of content, onto YouTube but the inclusion of user generated content on regualr TV is a bit intriguing, as long as it’s not hosted by Bob Saget!

YouTube is reviewing its plans for moving into television following interest from various networks, according to the company’s VP of content, Kevin Donahue.

Speaking at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Donahue said: “We’ve had a lot of conversations with networks that want us to do shows, and companies that want us to do linear YouTube channels.”

He admitted, however, that the company – bought by Google last year for US$1.65bn – was in a “strategy phase” at the moment. Rival Revver.com has already made the leap to TV, tying up with satellite channel Fame TV in the UK.

There are ways however to experience YouTube on the big tube, especially if you have a Nintendo Wii : SofaTube.