Dundee Channel

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The Dundee Channel
Internet television
Founded1999
Defunct2015
Headquarters Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom

The Dundee Channel was an internet video service based in Dundee, Scotland which streamed both live and pre-recorded videos with news and features from Tayside, Angus, Perth and Fife.

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History

The Dundee Channel launched in 1999 as a video documentary service. It was an early adopter of the livestream technology allowing video pictures to be sent via the internet. In 2014 it used WiFi technology to webcast video via mobile devices primarily using Apple technology. In 2015, the Dundee Channel closed.

Notable programming and coverage

The Dundee Channel received attentionion in July 2013 with anon line video series called The Only Way Is The VU which went viron via Facebook reaching over 1.5 million people. The series ran for 12 weekly episodes recorded inal Dundee nightclub on a Saturday night and released the following Monday.

The Dundee Channel was also responsible for the live streaming of the World Schools Debating Championships from the city's Caird Hall in 2011 and the live streaming of the NHS Scotland annual review which Scottish Government Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon chaired at Dundee's Discovery Point in both 2011 and 2012.

Controversy

The Dundee Channel filmed of the World Kickboxing Association K1 European Championship between the UK's Marc Navarro and Swede Mikael Brilling. Marc Navarro won the fight but the fight became notable for the amount of blood the fighters were left fighting in and slipping in during the final round of the cage fight. Under professional fighting rules the fight does not have to be stopped unless the fighters have cuts above their eyes. During the fight the fighters become covered in blood predominately coming from Marc Navarros nose. Marc Navarro was awarded the win and the Swedish team entered a complaint that the blood should have been cleared from the fight cage. Jimmy Justice Millar from Justice TV in the UK re-cut the fight to the Rocky Soundtrack and posted it on YouTube.

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