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Yahoo Japan Corp has partnered with local media companies to expand the scope of video delivery services in Japan with the addition of a pay-per-view shows.

Starting early September, GyaO Corp, Yahoo’s Japanese unit, will be adding dramas from public broadcaster NHK and cartoons and other programs from TV Tokyo Corp to its pay-for-view streaming service, charging several hundred yen per show.

Besides, the partnership with NHK and TV Tokyo allows GyaO to offer programming from all major television broadcasters.

Apple Inc is negotiating a deal with News Corp, Walt Disney and other media corporations to rent TV shows to viewers for 99 cents through iTunes, according to the sources with the knowledge of the matter. The talks are aimed at allowing viewers to rent network programming off Apple's iTunes store for 48 hours.

Meantime, the sources also report that a number of companies including NBC and CBS do not seem to be too happy about the offering because they believe it would undercut revenue they already earn through iTunes.

The number one US broadcaster CBS Corp is negotiating with Hulu to bring some of its TV shows to the popular Web video service, as announced by CBS CEO Les Moonves.

Moonves reported that the talks are held with Hulu Plus, a paid for subscription service which the online video company launched in June charging users $9.

To date CBS is the only major broadcaster who hasn’t yet placed its shows on Hulu. According to reports from comScore Hulu is one of the fastest growing TV sites since its launch in 2007 with around 43.5 million viewers in May.