Google Video Marketplace was announced in a presentation at the 2006 Consumer Electronics Show.
"Google's innovative presentation of information and content is revolutionizing the way people access media," said National Basketball Association Commissioner David Stern. "In the increasingly competitive and rapidly changing world of entertainment, Google Video provides us with a new way to deliver the NBA experience to our fans when and how they want it."
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Offerings from CBS will include shows from the station's past and present lineups, and other shows from its library.
CBS programs are not available to purchase in many countries, even close US neighbours like Canada.
Full basketball games will be available for purchase. Games are available for 24 hours after the game finishes. It is unknown if NBA videos will be eventually available for longer periods of time. Major games of the season will also be available. Available for USD$3.99 per game.
Music videos from
At launch, artists included
Initial offering cost USD$1.99 per video.
Interviews
Interviews by Charlie
Rose, with subjects ranging from Henry Kissinger to Quentin
Tarantino, Martha Stewart to Charles M.
Schulz, Steve Jobs
to Bill
Clinton.
Available for USD$0.99 per episode.
Children's educational programming
Topics are said to range from "teen education on tattoos to
explanations about the workings of the human brain."
"Classic" cartoons
Episodes of animated series such as Rocky and Bullwinkle and Casper The Friendly Ghost (over 100
episodes), and animated shorts from series such as Felix the Cat.
Not confirmed to be available, but also owned by the company are
The Lone
Ranger, Rudolph the Red-Nosed
Reindeer, Mr. Magoo, series starring Shari Lewis and Lambchop,
Underdog, and Lassie (600 episodes).
Initial cost on GVM, USD$1.99.
"A diverse collection of short clips that capture personalities, moments and eras throughout history - selected from vintage newsreels and educational film, as well as contemporary news and events from around the world."
Feature-length independent films
According to Google, this collection includes works by Polish
director Andrzej
Wajda (Zemsta),
documentary filmmaker Ted Bonnitt (Mau Mau Sex Sex) and
independent actor/director Caveh Zahedi (In the Bathtub of the
World).
Distributor of TV and movies.
Google has not yet said which programs will be available through
Image. Properties Image own distribution to include The
Richard Pryor Show, lesser-known horror movies like
Monsters Crash the Pyjama Party, small market movies like
Paris Hilton
picture The
Hillz, music content like Cher The Farewell Tour, comedy specials by Jeff Foxworthy
and Jamie Foxx, and
"mature" content using the Playboy and Penthouse brands.
Collection includes Alfred Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much, The Lucy Show, Ozzie and Harriet, and Petticoat Junction.
Google has not yet said which programs will be available through Plum TV, a local station in the Hamptons. Programs include living artist profile Artist's Studio, professionally-produced sock-puppet program Cheap Show, and comedy-cooking show KitchenMC.
Google has not yet said which programs will be available through TBN. Programs likely to be available through this particular station are Manna from Heaven and This Is Your Day, both with Benny Hinn, and the long-running The 700 Club.
Google has not yet said which programs will be available through WGBH and WGBH Forum Network.
Free clips currently available:
Currently only trailers for episodes of Nova are available, for free.
Other programs produced by WGBH include American Experience, Antiques Roadshow, Arthur, Frontline, Masterpiece Theatre, Nova, Peep and the Big Wide World, Postcards from Buster, This Old House, The Victory Garden, and ZOOM.
Historic, news and educational footage from ITN. This material ranges from coverage of key events in 2005 such as the Pope John Paul II's death, back to a recording of the 1896 coronation of Tsar Nicholas II – one of the earliest known pieces of moving imagery.
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