MTV Online: All South Park, All the Time

MTV Networks is reaching out to consumers everywhere by making every clip from every episode of the hit animated comedy “South Park” available for free online starting next year.

The decision follows parent company Viacom’s release of the “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart,” whose popularity online has helped boost television viewership.  MTV Networks’ Comedy Central channel network has hosted some 13,000 “Daily Show” videos dating back to 1999 since October.

Networks have discovered that releasing episodes of TV shows to the internet hasn’t hurt ratings and may have improved them.

“One does not diminish the other by any stretch of the imagination. That is kind of our hat trick,” MTV Networks Chairman and Chief Executive Judy McGrath said at the Reuters Media Summit in New York on Wednesday.

“South Park” creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker signed a deal with Comedy Central in August to create a new joint venture to spread “South Park” materials across the Web, on mobile phones and video games.

Hopefully we’ll get some good video games out of this unholy union. Notice the emphasis on good.

via Reuters