Internet Video

College Sports Television is deploying Akamai Technologies Inc.’s video-streaming platform to deliver broadband to CollegeSports.com (www.collegesports.com) and its 150 affiliated-college Web sites.

Those schools include Notre Dame, Stanford, Georgia, OhioState, Duke, Maryland and North Carolina.

Content includes streaming audio, press-conference coverage, game highlights and on-demand programming.

Viacom Inc. said Wednesday that its exchange offer for the split-off of Blockbuster Inc. was oversubscribed.

The offer to Viacom stockholders for the exchange, on a tax-free basis, of some or all of their Viacom shares for shares of Blockbuster common stock held by Viacom expired at midnight (EST) Tuesday.

After consulting with their online virtual pets, 44% of kids 8-17 would vote for Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) in the upcoming presidential election.

A Jack Myers Report/Neopets.com (www.neopets.com) poll of 2,000 Neopets members in that age range also found that 38% would vote for President George W. Bush and 1% for Independent candidate Ralph Nader, and the remaining 11% were undecided.

Cable News Network is developing a multimedia CD-ROM for teachers containing resources and activities related to the U.S. presidential-election process.

The network said Wednesday that “The America Votes 2004 Teaching Kit” will be available Sept. 13. Interested educators can request it through CNN Student News’ Web site (cnnstudentnews.cnn.com/fyi/index.html).

Newly named Viacom Inc. co-president Tom Freston said he is talking with a handful of internal candidates -- basically his circle of top lieutenants at MTV Networks -- as candidates to succeed him as head of the crown jewel cable-network unit.

“I’ve gone to talk to them, and some of them have come to talk to me,” said Freston, who was promoted following Mel Karmazin’s exit from Viacom this past week.

Within the next few weeks, Freston said, he expects to choose his successor as chairman and CEO of MTVN.