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User-Generated Television or UGTV refers to TV footage that was originally created by a member of the public and then uploaded to the internet. Often the process of selecting such footage for broadcast includes the input of web users. UGTV can refer to TV show content or to advertisements.

UGTV Firsts

The first TV show containing UGTV was an experimental show ZeD

ZeD

ZeD is a Canadian variety television program and website. The series premiered on CBC Television in March 2002 and ran to 2006. Hosted primarily by Sharon Lewis and Ziya Tong, ZeD publicized creative works from Canada and other countries, including a substantial portion of material created by...

, broadcast by CBC

CBC Television

CBC Television is a Canadian television network owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the national public broadcaster.Although the CBC is supported by public funding, the television network supplements this funding with commercial advertising revenue, in contrast to CBC Radio which are...

, Canada’s national publicly-funded broadcasting company. The show ran from 2002-2006.

The first TV show that runs completely on UGTV is Outloud.TV. The show started in August 2003 as a student project on Amsterdam local TV and is currently still running as project by the Outloud.TV Foundation in Amsterdam.
Outloud.TV is also the first show that locates the broadcast timeslots automatically and 100% democratic based upon the Outloud.TV user communities votes.

The first TV network based around UGTV is Current TV

Current TV

Current TV, or Current, is a media company led by former U.S. Vice President Al Gore and businessman Joel Hyatt. Comcast owns a ten percent stake of Current's parent company, Current Media LLC....

, which was set up by Al Gore

Al Gore

Albert Arnold "Al" Gore, Jr. served as the 45th Vice President of the United States , under President Bill Clinton. He was the Democratic Party's nominee for President in the 2000 U.S. presidential election....

and businessman Joel Hyatt

Joel Hyatt

Joel Z. Hyatt is a prominent businessman and former attorney and American politician of the Democratic party. He is the founder of Hyatt Legal Services, and was featured in the law firm's television commercials speaking the slogan, "I'm Joel Hyatt and you have my word on it."Hyatt graduated from...

in 2004. Current relies on UGTV for about one third of its content.

The first UGTV advert broadcast on national TV was a spot for Sony

Sony

, commonly referred to as Sony, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan and the world's fifth largest media conglomerate measured by revenues....

created by Tyson Ibele, an 18-year-old from Minneapolis. It was first broadcast in May 2006.

Other UGTV examples

Trouble

Trouble (TV station)

Trouble was a television station in the UK and Republic of Ireland, owned by Virgin Media Television. It fully replaced The Children's Channel from 4 April 1998, prior to the start of Sky Digital....

, a UK satellite and cable channel has been, since April 2006, regularly broadcasting clips that have been uploaded to its Trouble Homegrown website.

NBC

NBC

The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...

and 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....

, an extremely popular website, announced an alliance in June 2006 part of which will see NBC broadcasting select YouTube clips.

Sumo TV

Sumo TV

Sumo TV Is a free-to-air television channel owned by Cellcast Group. On 1 July 2006, You TV was relabelled as Sumo TV. Sumo TV was officially launched on 28 November 2006 claiming to be the world's first user-content TV channel...

launched a fully integrated TV & web platform in July 2006, allowing users to upload video clips for broadcast onto the UK SKY satellite network. The channel also employs user-generated broadcasting by allowing users to build their own shows which are broadcast within the channels live virtual studio.

MTV

MTV

MTV, formerly an initialism of Music Television, is an American network based in New York City that launched on August 1, 1981. The original purpose of the channel was to play music videos guided by on-air hosts known as VJs....

launched a new, viewer-controlled channel called MTV Flux

MTV Flux

MTV Flux was a television channel in the United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland. The version in the UK and the Republic of Ireland launched on September 6, 2006. The brand started as a website on 1 August...

on August 1, 2006. On the channel, UGTV was shown in addition to professional content selected by web users. However it was soon closed and MTV is relaunching a different service simply called "Flux", based on their Italian office's website.

Predating these initiatives was UGTV’s becoming common on TV news. Tom Glocer

Tom Glocer

Tom Glocer is the CEO of Thomson Reuters and former CEO of Reuters.-Biography:Glocer joined Reuters Group in 1993 as Vice President and Deputy Counsel, Reuters America...

, CEO of Reuters

Reuters

Reuters is a news agency headquartered in New York City. Until 2008 the Reuters news agency formed part of a British independent company, Reuters Group plc, which was also a provider of financial market data...

, talking about the catastrophic tsunami caused by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake

2004 Indian Ocean earthquake

The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake was an undersea megathrust earthquake that occurred at 00:58:53 UTC on Sunday, December 26, 2004, with an epicentre off the west coast of Sumatra, Indonesia. The quake itself is known by the scientific community as the Sumatra-Andaman earthquake...

from a news-gathering perspective said, 'For the first 24 hours the best and the only photos and video came from tourists armed with 1.3-megapixel portable telephones, digital cameras and camcorders. And if you didn't have those pictures, you weren't on the story.'

"UGTV" as a term was first publicised through an inaugural UGTV conference, UGTV ’06, held in London in July 2006.

dorf - user generated TV, a noncommercial and community based digital terrestrial channel was launched in June 2010 in Austria.
dorf tv is broadcasting via DVB-T reaching about 440.000 households. dorf tv allows users to upload video clips via website, FTP and E-Mail directly from smartphones.

Another global project of UGTV is Blogz. It's a package of website, social network and tv channel all in one. The user uploads their video to the web and their network votes for the best videos. The most voted video, after selection, go to the channel grid.
The site is already in three languages and it has Android and iPhone apps.

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