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Movies You've Heard Of Coming To YouTube. Will You Rent Them?

Peter Kafka in Media on April 25, 2011 at 9:36 pm PT

YouTube is finally ready to move its movie rental service from a long-running test into a real, bona fide movie store. The problem for both Hollywood and YouTube: Consumers seem to like the Netflix subscription service more than one-off rentals.

Report: Comcast Buying NBC for $35 Billion. Comcast: “Inaccurate”

Peter Kafka in Media on September 30, 2009 at 6:23 pm PT

Here’s the big media deal everyone has been waiting for. Or at least, here’s the report: Sharon Waxman of TheWrap reports that cable giant Comcast is buying all of NBC Universal from GE for $35 billion. Comcast says the report is “inaccurate.”