International. The well-known Internet video portal Youtube will have its own network of television channels from 2012. In total there will be 12 channels dedicated to economy, sports, culture, fashion and art, among other topics, and with the possibility that in subsequent years the number may rise to 20.
For these, the company is preparing an investment that is close to US $ 100 million in content purchase. It is not yet clear whether the content broadcast by Youtube will be seen worldwide or only in the United States.
Nor has it been clarified if this is the much rumored Google TV project that has been talked about for more than a year, because it is worth remembering that since 2006 Google is the owner of the video portal.
With this announcement, the words of the president of Youtube, Larry Page, who on several occasions has assured that the future and the true competition of his is in the television transmitted by Internet and not only being a portal to which videos can be uploaded.
Youtube will thus swell the offer of Internet TV, competing with the work that has been carried out for some years by large Latin American production companies, such as the case of Azteca in Mexico.
