Yahoo hooks up with CBS to offer local news clips

Looks like everyone's making video deals these days. First, Google bought YouTube for $1.65 billion; now Yahoo has made a deal with CBS to show news clips from all of the network's owned-and-operated local stations.

According to this AP article, between 10 and 20 local news clips from each station will be posted daily to Yahoo, starting tomorrow. In return for providing these clips, the stations will share in whatever advertising revenues Yahoo generates from the videos. The site already shows national and world news from CNN, ABC News, and CBS's 60 Minutes; this is the first deal, though, involving local news clips.

I'd imagine that these clips would be news about local politics, police cases, fires, etc. But, for all we know, they could be clips of sweeps-month dreck like "Is eating broccoli dangerous?" Unfortunately, Cleveland's finest muckraker, Carl Monday, works for an NBC station; you'll just have to go to his station's web site to see his adventures.