Sun Valley Confab: DealBook & Reuters’ Coverage; YouTube’s The Darlin’

Allen & Company’s annual Sun Valley retreat is on and journalists are sucking away at the dregs of information coming out. There’s an official ban on blogging by the participants. Anyway, the conference blogs from journos hanging around:
– NYT’s Andrew Ross Sorkin’s blogging it away, here (o how things have changed at NYT). Anyway, great coverage…this one about YouTube: “If there is a belle of the Sun Valley ball, it would have to be Chad Hurley, CEO of YouTube…While he is here, Hurley may be looking to arrange some advertising and other kinds of deals with the big players in the media business. And, of course, there is buzz about a YouTube takeover“.
– Reuter’s Ken Li is also blogging on Reuters.com, here: the Sun Valley class of ’06…the high-powered participant list here.
– AP does a story about how YouTube CEO and SlingMedia CEO are there as well, and being courted by big media companies. Interesting this: CBS CEO Leslie Moonves had a sit down meeting with Chad, and Moonves marveled when Hurley informed him that YouTube’s steadily expanding audience is now watching about 100 million videos per day. He asked how YouTube might be able to direct more traffic to Web sites owned by CBS. The meeting ended with Moonves concluding that CBS should start posting daily snippets of its programming on YouTube.