Citytv.com.co is a Colombian

Colombia

Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia , is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The country is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the...

 video sharing

Video hosting service

A video hosting service allows individuals to upload video clips to an Internet website. The video host will then store the video on its server, and show the individual different types of code to allow others to view this video...

 website

Website

A website, also written as Web site, web site, or simply site, is a collection of related web pages containing images, videos or other digital assets. A website is hosted on at least one web server, accessible via a network such as the Internet or a private local area network through an Internet...

 that operates under the Canadian-based

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 brand name Citytv

Citytv

Citytv is a Canadian English language television system owned and operated by Rogers Communications under its Rogers Broadcasting Ltd. division...

, which is licensed to the Colombian newspaper El Tiempo. The website was created by El Tiempo Publishing Company (Casa Editorial El Tiempo) in order to compete with other popular video sharing websites such as YouTube

YouTube

YouTube is a video-sharing website, created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005, on which users can upload, view and share videos....

 and Metacafe

Metacafe

Metacafe is a web site that specializes in short-form video entertainment in the categories of movies, video games, sports, music and TV.The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, with offices in New York, Los Angeles, London and Tel Aviv...

 with the difference being that it targets a Colombian audience. As of August 2009 the vast majority of videos in the website come from Citytv Bogota's

Citytv Bogotá

Citytv Bogotá is a local television station in Colombia's capital city. It is owned by the Casa Editorial El Tiempo , which publishes the main national Colombian daily newspaper El Tiempo, as well as other magazines such as Portafolio, Cambio, Motor, and Carrusel. CEET licensed the Canadian...

 television programming. Users can upload their own videos upon registration or by accessing via Facebook Connect

Facebook

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. The website's terms of service warns that videos with improper material such as pornography

Pornography

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 or defamation are prohibited and that all videos are screened prior to publishing.

Facebook Connect integration

Citytv.com.co is tightly integrated with Facebook by allowing users to post a comment in the website and at the same time having the comment published in their Facebook wall.

See also

• Citytv Bogota
  Citytv Bogotá
  Citytv Bogotá is a local television station in Colombia's capital city. It is owned by the Casa Editorial El Tiempo , which publishes the main national Colombian daily newspaper El Tiempo, as well as other magazines such as Portafolio, Cambio, Motor, and Carrusel. CEET licensed the Canadian...
  
  
• Citytv Canada
  Citytv
  Citytv is a Canadian English language television system owned and operated by Rogers Communications under its Rogers Broadcasting Ltd. division...
  
  
• Comparison of video services
  Comparison of video services
  The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of notable video hosting services. Please see the individual products' articles for further information...
  
  
• Internet in Colombia
  Internet in Colombia
  Internet access in Colombia shows a marked increase during the last few years. As of September 2009, the web connections surpassed two million, as compared with an estimated total of 900,000 Internet subscribers by the end of 2005...