The Wall Street Journal reports, Youtube’s media collection will be enriched with more than 4,000 hours of video content such as classic television shows to the video-sharing site. No surprise, you might have guessed, and you would have been right. I’m not sure, but I must have been heard that MTV might lose its priority as a music and video giant due to Youtube’s stuff. Such is indeed the case.

Google Inc.’s YouTube took another step in its efforts to court providers of popular television shows, with a deal that will bring episodes of “I Spy,” “Gumby” and other classic shows to the video-sharing site.

By agreement, Youtube will also use a filtering technology to identify songs for which Digital Music controls the rights that are being used without authorization in videos on the site.

Technorati Tags:  video, music, shows, television shows, video, video content, video-sharing, mtv