Apparently the agreement that put NBC content on youTube is no longer and the NBC channel has been pulled down. I am a member of the hulu.com private beta test, and although it is a better place to watch full length television shows then youtube is, I don't think that both services can't co-exist.

To me it would make more sense to maintain a library of shorts and clips on youTube as a means for marketing NBC's shows to a wider audience. Think about it this way, many users like to browse around youtube and check out what is new. Maybe I am looking for funny videos of celebrity breasts being mauled by cats and I happen upon a comical bit from 30 Rock. I decide "this Tina Fey lady is rather funny, I want to see more." Now I browse on over to hulu.com and pee some 30 Rock episodes in a higher resolution.

If the NBC deal with youtube has profit sharing, it seems to me that the move to exclusive hulu.com would be a mistake. It is quite possible that the move is only temporary as an attempt to bolster traffic over at hulu and that we will see the NBC Channel back up on youtube in the future.

Until then I guess we will have to rely on an army of uploaders that manage to get copyrighted material up onto youtube everyday to get our non-hulu NBC fix.