Google owns the biggest TV station on the planet

From the forthcoming edition of Forbes:

"The three-year-old YouTube site probably crossed a billion views per day worldwide a few months ago, exceeding even the lofty expectations by Google when it made the acquisition. (YouTube will only confirm it does hundreds of millions of views per day.)

"Thirty-eight percent of the video streamed on the Web now comes from YouTube, according to ComScore. No other player has more than 4%. Google owns the biggest television station on the planet. It will upload 600 years' worth of video this year.

""A studio declining to do business with YouTube would be like a cereal maker not dealing with Wal-Mart," says Bobby Tulsiani, a JupiterResearch analyst."

Photo -Brian Eno, The Future of Television (1991). From Watz under a creative commons license.