Friday, February 20, 2009

CBS Responds to Hulu

CBS Corp. and Hulu, the joint internet video venture of NBC Universal and News Corp., are battling over their Internet video ambitions.

Hulu on Tuesday yanked all of its video off of CBS' TV.com site, saying in a statement that it was "exercising" its contractual rights to pull its videos.

CBS has now answered with a statement of their own:
CBS Interactive is well within its rights to stream Hulu video content on TV.com under its agreement with Hulu. We are evaluating our next steps at this time.

The distribution agreement between TV.com and Hulu was made prior to CBS’s acquisition TV.com’s parent company, CNET. CBS recently relaunched TV.com recently with a redesign that almost exactly matched the look and feel of Hulu.

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