Television bigwig and owner of MySpace, Fox Interactive Media, has appointed Tom Bosco as Vice President and head of sales for the recently updated and launched (and not in any way anything like YouTube, *cough*), MySpaceTV video portal.

Bosco is something of a seasoned broadband video pro, having helped to launch both MSN and AOL’s Video services as well as serving on the Internet Architecture Board broadband committee.

Fox Interactive Media is currently baying for content deals for MySpaceTV, having recently secured the likes of Lonelygirl15, The Onion, and Sony Pictures Television.

The site is certainly starting to come together and the addition of Bosco and all of his experience is sure to give the service a boost. It will probably still always live in the shadow of the colossus mind, but could make for a valiant second act…

[Via NewTeeVee]

Once she was a YouTube darling. Then she was exposed as being fictitious. Now, her creators have signed an exclusive deal with MySpaceTV – an indication that LoneyGirl15 is all grown up.

MySpace today announced an exclusive deal to broadcast the season one finale of the famous LonelyGirl15 series. Dubbed “12 in 12”, the final episode will be shown in one to four minute segments over twelve consecutive hours.

The first segment will be available on MySpaceTV at 8am Friday, August 3rd (EDT in the US), followed by eleven other segments on the hour every hour. The second series of the video blogger style videos, which feature a teenage girl named Bree, will commence on August 6th.

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MySpace has teamed with the Producers Guild of America to give amateur video makers a chance to make it big in Hollywood.

The Story Teller Challenge, like many of the current video contests going around, professes to be a way to shortcut the red-tape of Hollywood and get an audience with top studio executives – and an opportunity to make it big!

The competition is perhaps another sign that News Corp - which owns MySpace – is committed to investing in online talent. Another report suggests the company is producing a TV series exclusively for its social networking site.

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It’s been reported that the News Corp owned social networking site, MySpace, may be commissioning an exclusive web TV show.

Whilst News Corp haven’t confirmed (or denied) the production, it’s alleged that a group of Hollywood talent has been assembled to start work on an original series.

Having plenty of pull in the TV and media industry in general, it’s certainly not unfathomable that News Corp would try its hand at online TV. It already has a massive potential audience in its MySpace community.

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NewsCorp owned MySpace yesterday announced the launch of MySpaceTV, a new dedicated MySpace branded competitor to YouTube. The new MySpace video sharing site will work independantly to the regular MySpace social networking site.

According to the NYTimes, MySpaceTV will also have a strong focus for professionally produced content from the likes of NBC Universal and Fox (also owned by News Corp), in addition to the regular user generated content.

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Much like the situation in many schools the Pentagon decided to ban a variety of sites from the military including Metacafe, YouTube, iFilm, StupidVideos, FileCabi, Photobucket MySpace, BlackPlanet , MTV and more.

YouTube has now challenged the ban and is now working with the Pentagon to encourage them to remove the block.

YouTube’s CEO Chad Hurley said:

"They said it might be a bandwidth issue, but they created the Internet, so I don’t know what the problem is."

I just noticed that Google is integrating video thumbnails into its regular search results. It is doing this for video clips from select sites (pictured above).

Video sites that seem to get a thumbnail are:

• Yahoo Video
• MetaCafe
• YouTube
• Google Video
• MySpace
• Vimeo

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