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DarthMarley
http://www.physorg.com/news127734694.html

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NBC Universal Digital Studio will work with a division of Omnicom Group Inc. to create programs that help advertisers sell their products, the entertainment giant announced in a statement Thursday. The programming will be broadcast on NBC Universal's digital properties, such as Web sites.

"We are proactively working with our clients, the advertisers, to deliver compelling content to our audiences, wherever they are," NBC entertainment chief Ben Silverman said in the statement.

Digital Studio's first productions, which will premiere this summer, are a science-fiction series starring Rosario Dawson called "Gemini Division" and a quirky comedy about a college-aged zombie called "Woke Up Dead," said NBC Universal, a unit of General Electric Co.

Intel Corp., Cisco Systems Inc. and Microsoft Corp. are among the first brands involved with the development of "Gemini Division" (A science-fiction series starring Rosario Dawson) the statement said.

herbsinger42
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Soooo...
What does this really mean?
The end of broadcast TV as we know it... and you gotta have a link?

Does seem to be the way things are going.

Leaves us poor folk out in the cold, tho.
MikeTheC
I thought they did that already in television-land.

You know...

Transformers... Voltron... Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles... the list goes on and on.
DarthMarley
In the beginning of television, it was the norm. Rather than commercial breaks, there would typically be a single sponsor for the show, and the cast would plug the product.
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