Dundee Channel

Background

The Dundee Channel is an internet video service based in Dundee Scotland which streams both live and pre-recorded videos with news and features from Tayside, Angus, Perth and Fife. Having begun life in 1999 as a video documentary service it moved on line in 2009. It was an early adopter of the Livestream technology allowing video pictures to be sent via the internet. As of 2014 it is now using wifi technology to webcast video via mobile devices primarily using Apple technology.

Breakthrough series

It came to national attention in July 2013 with an on line video series called The Only Way Is The VU which went viral via Facebook reaching over 1.5 million people. The series ran for 12 weekly episodes recorded in a real Dundee nightclub on a Saturday night and posted to the internet by the following Monday. The delay was to allow the owners of the nightclub Park Leisure Dundee to ensure the footage was within the UK licensing laws and guidelines as the series was filmed in a real business The VU Dundee and was not staged for the cameras.

Controversy

These viewing figures were exceeded in 2014 with the filming 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.

Other National Live Streams

The Dundee Channel have also been responsible for the live streaming of the World Schools Debating Championships from Dundees Caird Hall in 2011 and the live streaming of the NHS Scotland annual review which Scottish Government Minister Nicola Sturgeon chaired in Dundees Discovery Point in both 2011 and 2012.

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