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Tuesday, Dec 27, 2005 11:40am

Yahoo streams CBS sitcoms

Yahoo today announced that it is streaming two episodes from each of the CBS' comedies "Two and a half men" and "How I met your mother" for free via its website. Pushing the envelope for online video distribution, the move could help lure potential video-viewers to Yahoo rather than the iTunes Music Store. iTunes began offering video content to consumers for $2 per episode with the debut of Apple's fifth-generation video-capable iPod in October and has also been recently offering free videos to attract potential purchasers. In early November CBS revealed that it had been in talks with Apple to offer its content via iTunes after rival network ABC made several hit shows available through the online store.

Yahoo is offering the commercial-free episodes of "Two and a half men" entitled "We called it Mr. Pinky" and "Madame and her special friend" as well as "How I met your mother" episodes dubbed "The pineapple incident" and "The sweet taste of liberty" until Monday, January 2nd, according to the Associated Press.