15/6/2012 – NEW YORK (Reuters) – YouTube’s boss said that cable television channels with small audiences will in the future migrate to the Web and become available on a stand-alone basis, potentially making a home for themselves on the No.1 video website.
The cable channels could provide more professionally produced content for YouTube as it weighs selling subscriptions for consumers to access some of its video offerings.
As YouTube, owned by Google Inc, ponders selling subscriptions, it has “seen demand from the kind of networks that have smaller audiences on cable,” and which get very little or no affiliate fees from cable distributors, Kamangar said at the Reuters Media and Technology Summit on Thursday.
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