YouTube NHL
The NHL has become the first pro sports league to strike a deal with YouTube, the increasingly popular video sharing Web site, to provide NHL content and share some advertising revenue.
Under the agreement, some NHL game highlights will be available within 24 hours of broadcast. The partnership allows the league to protect its copyrighted video, which it can have removed from the site or share revenue from ads placed around it. Soon, the site will debut an NHL link: www.youtube.com/nhl.
Launched in February 2005, YouTube.com has become the must-visit site for a wide variety of video clips that include political gaffes and lots of moments in sports, such as the UM-FIU brawl at the Orange Bowl last month. This week, Google completed its $1.65 billion purchase of YouTube.
Other sports leagues are also exploring whether to partner with YouTube.
CRAIG DAVIS In more than 33 years at the Sun Sentinel, Craig Davis has written about a wide variety of sports topics from baseball to yachting, fishing to triathlons, and also worked as a copy editor and page designer. Recently he reported on local sports, including running, swimming, cycling, equestrian and beach volleyball. He enjoys sports as a participant as well as a spectator, is active in the South Florida running scene plays in the curling club at Saveology Iceplex. This blog offers a glimpse at the business side of sports in the interest of enhancing enjoyment of the games and sporting options as a spectator as well as a participant.
