NBC hulus away

NBC is turning out the lights on its branded YouTube channel in anticipation of its own video sharing site, Hulu, which it shares with News Corp.

After its launch in June of last year, YouTube spokesman Ricardo Reyes told AdWeek that NBC's branded channel was a "YouTube success story."

A beta version of Hulu is expected to launch at the end of this month. It will tout a distribution network that includes Yahoo, MSN, AOL, and MySpace.