NBBC Merges Into Video Venture

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NEW YORK The National Broadband Company, NBC Universal’s Web syndication service better known as NBBC, will merge into the unnamed NBCU/News Corp. joint online video venture. That service is set to launch later this year and compete against Google’s YouTube.

NBBC’s content partners and employees, though, will have to negotiate new contracts with the unnamed broadband project, referred to as NewSite.

News of the shutdown became public this week when an internal memo leaked to Multichannel News’ Web site and TV blog LostRemote.com.

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