London - Entertainment Rights, a U.K. media group that holds children's programming rights, on Tuesday announced new Web distribution deals that will bring shows like "He-Man," "She-Ra," "Rocky & Bullwinkle," "Fat Albert" and "Casper the Friendly Ghost" to YouTube, Joost and Babelgum. YouTube will get a Retro Heroes channel featuring 2-5 minute webisodes, while Babelgum and Joost will feature select long-form programming.

New York - IAC's (NASD: IACI) comedy video site CollegeHumor said on Friday that it will offer its original programming through Joost, the peer-to-peer based streaming TV service. CollegeHumor shows set for distribution through Joost include "The Michael Showalter Showalter," "Prank War" and "Street Fighter: The Later Years."

Los Angeles - Joost, the streaming TV service, this week added four channels from independent film and music content from OurStage to its offering. OurStage lets creators upload their video and music content, which users can browse, buy and rate.

While there are many areas of media that are going through changes, 2008 will be a particularly interesting year for the television industry. With YouTube already a household name, even the most notoriously defensive media giants have come to realize that online video is more than just an afterthought, in fact, it might just be the key to the new media castle.

Arlington, Va. - PBS announced on Tuesday that it will begin offering full-length programming on Joost, the Internet-based television service. At launch, PBS will offer programs including "History Detectives" and "Scientific American Frontiers," as well as specials from its "Empires" collection.

Los Angeles - Joost, the Internet TV streaming service, announced on Thursday the release of the first "commercial widget" on the service, sponsored by Coca-Cola's (NYSE: KO) European unit. When installed in Joost, "Coke Bubbles" lets users comment on specific scenes in a show, with their comments appearing in a translucent bubble on the screen when the Coke Bubble is e-mailed to a friend. Joost and Coca-Cola have also partnered on a contest to encourage widget developers to create more applications for Joost. The company plans to hold developer events in December in London, Amsterdam and New York.

Mountain View, Calif. - Meebo, a provider of instant messaging services, announced on Tuesday a partnership with streaming TV service Joost, to power chat rooms across Joost's platform. Joost users will now be able to enter chat rooms with other viewers of its more than 15,000 shows.

Los Angeles - Aniboom, a multi-platform animation network that features the work of independent animators from around the world, announced on Thursday that it is launching a branded, ad-supported animation channel on the Joost streaming TV service. The content will include original shorts created by some of the 3,000 animators who have partnered with the Aniboom Creators Studio to pitch and produce content for revenue-share opportunities.

Los Angeles - Ripe Digital Entertainment, a network of entertainment sites targeting young men, has announced that it has added its programming to Joost, the free streaming Internet TV service. The company will add channels for its RipeTV, OctaneTV and FlowTV sites to Joost, all of which feature professionally produced short videos.

Los Angeles - Joost, a provider of peer-to-peer based streaming TV programming, announced that it has surpassed one million users. The free service is still in a public beta test, from which it is expected to emerge and launch officially later this year. Joost raised $45 million from Index Ventures and Sequoia Capital in May, and features content from providers including Viacom, CNN, Reuters and Warner Bros.

New York - Joost, a peer-to-peer streaming TV service, has partnered with Viacom's VH1 to offer a preview of the entire season of its forthcoming series, "I Hate My 30s," on the service ten days in advance of its broadcast premiere, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Viacom, a Joost investor, also signed a comprehensive content partnership with the company in February. Joost has also secured content partnerships with Warner Music Group, Turner Broadcasting and Sony Pictures TV.

San Diego - Video-sharing service Veoh, which recently raised $26 million in venture financing, on Wednesday announced the beta launch of VeohTV, a desktop application that can play and record nearly all video on the Internet.

Joost, an Internet television service, today announced that Mike Volpi has been appointed chief executive officer. Volpi succeeds the company’s founding CEO, Fredrik de Wahl, who remains at Joost as chief strategy officer.  Volpi will assume full operational responsibility for the company effective immediately.
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San Francisco - Joost, the ad-supported, peer-to-peer streaming TV service created by the founders of Skype and Kazaa, has been added as a defendant to a year-old lawsuit filed by StreamCast Networks over the rights to the service's underlying FastTrack peer-to-peer technology, CNET News.com reported.

New York - Joost, the advertising-supported, peer-to-peer streaming TV service, announced on Tuesday that it has signed with Creative Artists Agency (CAA) to help secure content for distribution on its online entertainment network.

Los Angeles - National Lampoon this week announced the formation of a broadband video network that will distribute its programming with new partners including YouTube, Joost, Lycos, Veoh, GoFish, Handheld Entertainment and BiggyTV. The National Lampoon Video Network will supplement existing distribution partnership the company has with AOL Video and Brightcove, as well as its own NationalLampoon.com and TogaTV.com portals.