British YouTube users will soon be able to start watching their favorite music videos after Google and PRS for Music settled their long-running royalty rate fight. But YouTube has had to pay for the privilege, on a lump sum basis rather than the usual pay-per-view basis.

Music Videos On YouTube

Music videos are an integral part of YouTube. A quick glance at the latest viral video chart will tell you this much. This would seem to be a win-win situation for the Google-owned site, the record labels, and the artists involved. But that hasn’t always appeared to be the case.

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Foyle’s War Synopsis

Foyle’s War is a period detective series produced by ITV that debuted in October of 2002.

Foyle’s War is set in the town of Hastings in England during the period of World War II. Detective Chief Superintendent Christopher Foyle (played by Michael Kitchen) tries to catch criminals who are profiting during the period of mayhem that war has created.

Foyle’s War aired six seasons and seventh season started filming in February of 2009.

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The Fixer Synopsis

The Fixer is a crime drama television produced by ITV that debuted in March of 2008.

The Fixer follows the story of John Mercer who is a former Special Forces member now serving a life sentence for double murder of aunt and uncle. Suddenly he gets released from jail early and gets recruited to work as a hitman for an unofficial government agency whose primary task is to kill high profile criminals.

The Fixer aired one season and second season is due to air on September 1st 2009.

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YouTube’s business model is currently based entirely on advertising revenue. But what if the site started offering streaming movie rentals for a small fee in a move meant to rival iTunes, Amazon, and Netflix. How many of the 100 million-plus U.S. users would bite?

YouTube Revenue

I don’t think anyone can legitimately claim that YouTube isn’t a successful site, although Time magazine gave it a damn good go. With millions of users around the world and a brand name that would be the first mentioned by the vast majority when asked about online video, YouTube is as big a hit as some of its viral videos.

However, its current business model doesn’t seem to be bearing as much fruit as Google clearly thought it could when it paid $1.65 billion for the site. With the revenue from advertising almost wholly being consumed by bandwidth and associated costs, YouTube isn’t bringing in the big money as of yet.

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Emergency! Synopsis

The action-laden medical drama Emergency! follows the struggle of Los Angeles County Fire Department paramedics in dealing with catastrophe.

The series stars Randolph Mantooth, Kevin Tighe, Robert Fuller, Bobby Troup, Ron Pinkard, and Julie London.

Emergency! was a spin-off of Adam-12, which itself was a spin-off of Dragnet.

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The Dead Zone Synopsis

The Dead Zone is a Science Fiction television series produced by USA network that debuted in June of 2002.

The Dead Zone is based on the characters from a Stephen King novel by the same name. It follows the story of Johnny Smith (played by Anthony Michael Hall), a high school teacher who ends up in coma after a car accident. When he wakes up after six years he learns he has psychic abilities. Smith uses his ability to help solve crimes.

The Dead Zone aired six seasons.

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The Darling Buds of May Synopsis

The Darling Buds of May is a family comedy series produced by ITV that debuted in 1991.

The Darling Buds of May stars David Jason (Only Fools and Horses) and follows the story of boisterous Larkin family. The setting of the television series is 1950s Kent’s countryside. The series also launched Catherine Zeta Jones’ acting career. The Darling Buds of May was based on books written by H. E. Bates.

The Darling Buds of May aired three seasons.

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