SoapNet and ABC soaps coming to You Tube

The deal will see videos from sports network ESPN from April and the Disney/ABC Television networks such as ABC Entertainment and SoapNet become available on YouTube from May. Disney Media Networks will have the option to sell its own advertising inventory within those channels.

While the deal does not entail full-length programing, analysts said it represents an important validation for YouTube as it seeks to present itself as an outlet for professionally-made, premium video content.

http://www.reuters.com/article/industryNew...E52T7SL20090331

I'll be curious to see if they go the route of CBS and put up whole shows, and how they will deal with user content videos (CBS right now will mark a user video as their own copyrighted content, but doesn't make you take them down, just that they also can see user stats for that video)