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MTV to put South Park online

28 November 2007 22:50 by Rich "vurbal" Fiscus | 13 comments

MTV Networks will be giving away every second of every episode of the hit show South Park online next year. The move follows a decision earlier this year to put an extensive archive of footage from The Daily Show With Jon Stewart online.

"'The Daily Show' was the first out of the gate and it's been a big success and it's a nice little model for us to follow," said Mika Salmi, MTV Networks president of global digital media. "There's no limit to which shows we can use at this stage."

"One does not diminish the other by any stretch of the imagination. That is kind of our hat trick," MTV Networks Chairman and Chief Executive Judy McGrath said at the Reuters Media Summit in New York on Wednesday. She was referring to the question of whether the online content would compete with television for the same audience.

That would apparently be news to Viacom executives, who decided to sue YouTube over the availability of clips from their television shows from the viral video giant. The suit, for more than $1 billion, claims that these clips on YouTube threaten the "economic underpinnings of one of the most important sectors of the United States economy."

Source: Reuters

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furchtlos (Newbie) 29 November 2007 0:16
Sweet as. [ + quote]
pryme_H (Senior Member) 29 November 2007 1:42
This is awesome! I'm an avid viewer of the show. [ + quote]
hikaricor (Newbie) 29 November 2007 2:41
They're a little slow, I've had every episode of South Park for a long time now, and they've all come from the interwebs. [ + quote]
7thsinger (AfterDawn Addict) 29 November 2007 8:31
So South Park has come full circle. Good deal. [ + quote]
goodswipe (Inactive) 29 November 2007 12:38
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thekingo7 (Senior Member) 29 November 2007 16:10
Too bad south park now sucks balls, don't get me wrong I used to also love the show and had almost every episode ever made, but after chef left (and I'm not saying it was him who mad the show great, I'm just using it as a marking point) the show went down in quality and up in preachyness. All it does now is condemn groups or other shows as being preachy while taking on a completely preachy mantra of its own. Therfore I don't give a flying fuck. [ + quote]
goodswipe (Inactive) 29 November 2007 16:35
*Originally posted by thekingo7:* Too bad south park now sucks balls, don't get me wrong I used to also love the show and had almost every episode ever made, but after chef left (and I'm not saying it was him who mad the show great, I'm just using it as a marking point) the show went down in quality and up in preachyness. All it does now is condemn groups or other shows as being preachy while taking on a completely preachy mantra of its own. Therfore I don't give a flying fuck. what? they've always done that and you can't tell me that the imagination land trilogy wasn't great! [ + quote] This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 29 November 2007 16:40
thekingo7 (Senior Member) 29 November 2007 17:24
Okay I will admit every so often they do come up with some funny ones. But whenever its something political they always acts like passive aggressive assholes. [ + quote]
jetyi83 (Member) 29 November 2007 23:59
seriously? i love south park but i thought that trilogy sucked ass.. that was like a .. 6 in the morning we need an idea type of episode. i mean sure there were a few funny joked but the whole premise and story was pretty forced. i thought the tourettes one was much funnier [ + quote]
dayoshi (Newbie) 30 November 2007 2:21
yeah ive alwase loved southpark and still do but that trilogy was shit [ + quote]
chaos_zzz (Junior Member) 30 November 2007 11:18
their shows are already being streamed online on some sites. i dun know how they work with the rights thought? I am a fan of the show the imaginationland trilogy was great, the list, queer-ro this season is great like every other south park > family guy :) [ + quote] This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 30 November 2007 15:27
ST2006 (Junior Member) 30 November 2007 14:49
Stupid, these people are slow.. there are already hundreds of sites for this one purpose.. how about you focus on the simpsons?? [ + quote]
borhan9 (AfterDawn Addict) 21 December 2007 20:08
This is great news for all south park fans well done mtv. [ + quote]