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Exclusive: Google Gets a Content Guy–Netflix Veteran Robert Kyncl

in Media on September 16, 2010 at 10:58 am PT

Google wants to get into your living room, but it would help if it could show up with some TV shows and movies in hand. Here’s the guy who’s supposed to make that happen: Robert Kyncl, formerly a top Netflix emissary to Hollywood.

Time Warner Clips–But Not Shows–Land on YouTube

in Media on August 19, 2009 at 10:59 am PT

Another feather for the “we’ve got real stuff” cap that YouTube is showing off these days: Google’s video site has hammered out a deal with Time Warner to show clips from the media conglomerate’s cable networks, TV shows and movies. But you won’t be seeing full-length shows or movies from Time Warner on the world’s biggest video site–it’s saving those for cable companies that play along with its “TV Everywhere” plan.
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