—Microsoft’s YouTube Rival Arrives in Public Beta: Microsoft has unveiled a public beta of its MSN Soapbox video-upload service…The service also lets users watch videos and browse for new ones simultaneously on the same screen, something that differentiates it from YouTube.
—The Winner’s Multipltform Blitz: On Fox network, The Winner, starring The Daily Show veteran Rob Corddry, will be distributed on a dizzying array of distribution platforms—Sunday night prime-time broadcasts, $1.99 iTunes downloads, on-demand on Fox MySpace page and local sites for O&O stations, DVDs for sale at Circuit City, and even in-flight viewing on Jet Blue planes. Four episodes are already available at Familyguy.com. and they’ll go online at fox.com, myspace.com and the local sites on Tuesday (February 20). All six episodes in the series will be available as digital downloads from iTunes and other, unnamed retailers starting Februry 20, and beginning February 25, a two-episode DVD will be used as a promotional giveaway with certain 20th Century Fox TV DVD purchases at Circuit City. All this before March 4 TV debut.
—Wal-Mart’s Online Movie Premiere: Steven Levy reviews it and doesn’t like it. “Even the entrance of Wal-Mart into the marketplace has not changed the fact that you’re better off with the old model than the new.”
—MTV, Vice Partner For New Broadband Channel: MTV is launching a new broadband channel in partnership with Vice magazine that promises “edgy and raw” programming aimed at the 18- to-34-year-old male audience…the site is VBS.TV.
—The Weather Channel Launches Site Devoted To Exteme Sports: The broadband site is called Epic and it will feature videos that highlight the impact of weather on surfing, snow-skiing, mountain biking, whitewater rafting and sailing.  The site is a companion property of Epic Conditions, a new program debuting Sunday, March 4 on the cable network.
This BCB edition is sponsored by Limelight Networks