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Title: Facebook Signs TV Deal

Author: Grant, Peter; Vara, Vauhini Article Type: Product Analysis
Source: Wall Street Journal, v249 n31 pB4(1) Publication Date: Feb 7, 2007
  ISSN: 0193-2241
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URL of Publication: http://www.wsj.com

Comcast is allying with Facebook's namesake social networking service as a way to get in on the popularity that Google's YouTube has acquired by offering social networking access and abilities. Facebook has not entered the user-generated content venue as quickly as News Corp.'s MySpace, but will now establish many links between itself and Ziddio, which is a new website dedicated to user generated content that is being set up by Comcast. The best videos created by Facebook users (which will be chosen by a panel of judges) will wind up on the Comcast video on demand (VoD) service and potentially on a new show that might be aired by a TV network. Filmmaker R. J. Cutler will also produce 10 episodes of a new TV show called Facebook Diaries, which will be made up of videos submitted by users on such themes as Heartbreak, Who am I, and of Life During Wartime. Backers say they are still seeking a network to carry the show. YouTube was purchased by Google for $1.65 billion, and Comcast, the largest cable operator in the U.S. with more than 23 million subscribers, hopes to get itself a part of the market through its influence in the TV world and with the continuing expansion of its high-speed Internet service.

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