MTV to Offer All South Park Clips Online

NEW YORK, November 29:
MTV Networks will make every clip from every episode of the animated Comedy
Central series South Park available
for free online, beginning next year.

The launch of the South
Park clip site—which can be
found at SouthParkStudios.com—follows Comedy Central’s extension in
August of a deal with the show’s creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker. As part
of the deal, the channel agreed to create a new joint venture to spread South
Park materials across the web, on
mobile phones and video games.

According to Reuters,
the decision to freely distribute the clips online stems from the recent
success of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart’s clip site. The online popularity of The Daily Show’s clip site, which was launched by Comedy Central
in October and makes available some 13,000 videos dating back to 1999, has
boosted viewership on the linear channel. Comedy Central's Daily Show is one of the few programs that offer free access
to a deep archive of back videos.

"The Daily Show was the first out of the gate and it's been a big
success and it's a nice little model for us to follow," said Mika Salmi,
MTV Networks’ president of global digital media. "There's no limit to
which shows we can use at this stage."

—By Ned Berke