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Fishcam refers to a broadcast

Broadcasting

Broadcasting is the distribution of audio and video content to a dispersed audience via any audio visual medium. Receiving parties may include the general public or a relatively large subset of thereof...

consisting of a video camera

Video camera

A video camera is a camera used for electronic motion picture acquisition, initially developed by the television industry but now common in other applications as well. The earliest video cameras were those of John Logie Baird, based on the electromechanical Nipkow disk and used by the BBC in...

pointed at a fishtank.

Australia

Channel 31 Melbourne

C31 Melbourne, formally known as Channel 31 Melbourne , is a public television station in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.-The Channel:Its signal is transmitted from Mt...

, Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

, had one of the more famous and long-lasting Fishcams. The Fishcam itself was originally used as a replacement to the more common testcards, shown when the station had nothing else to air. Due to extreme popularity though, the Fishcam became an actual scheduled show on the network. The station has also released several VHS

VHS

The Video Home System is a consumer-level analog recording videocassette standard developed by Victor Company of Japan ....

tapes of the program. The broadcast was accompanied by the music of unsigned Melbourne musicians. For more information please see the Fishcam section on the Channel 31 Melbourne article.

Rumours have abounded amongst fans that Channel 31 has played repeats of this program while it has continued to be labelled "live".

From 4th March 2007 the broadcasting of Fishcam on Channel 31 has ceased.

Canada

When St. John's

St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador

St. John's is the capital and largest city in Newfoundland and Labrador, and is the oldest English-founded city in North America. It is located on the eastern tip of the Avalon Peninsula on the island of Newfoundland. With a population of 192,326 as of July 1, 2010, the St...

television station NTV

CJON-TV

CJON-DT is a Canadian English language television station broadcasting on channel 21 in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, with additional transmitters and cable coverage throughout the province. It is known on-air as NTV, for Newfoundland Television...

first commenced 24-hour broadcasting in the early-1970s, one of its overnight programs was a constant shot of a fish tank.

Hong Kong

The ATV Network in Hong Kong also aired a Fishcam program, in lieu of test card

Test card

A test card, also known as a test pattern in North America and Australia, is a television test signal, typically broadcast at times when the transmitter is active but no program is being broadcast...

after the station signs off the air. The program's name was TeleFishion . It became an unexpected hit for the station, with the program performing as well, if not better, than the station's normal primetime programs. The title of the show entered into popular vocabulary as one being incredibly bored.

Turkey

Turkish broadcaster Digiturk

Digiturk

Digiturk is a Turkish Satellite television provider, founded in 1999, with services starting in mid-2000. They offer, both national cable TV channels and their own channels, national radio, and music streams of different genres. Digiturk is also the current owner of the broadcasting rights of...

broadcasts live fish tanks in their music channels under the name "Aquavision".

Netscape

Netscape Communications is a US computer services company, best known for Netscape Navigator, its web browser. When it was an independent company, its headquarters were in Mountain View, California...

has a web feed

Web feed

A web feed is a data format used for providing users with frequently updated content. Content distributors syndicate a web feed, thereby allowing users to subscribe to it. Making a collection of web feeds accessible in one spot is known as aggregation, which is performed by an aggregator...

of their fishtank, and for some time had an easter egg hidden in Netscape Communicator

Netscape Communicator

Netscape Communicator was an Internet suite produced by Netscape Communications Corporation. Initially released in June 1997, Netscape Communicator 4.0 was the successor to Netscape Navigator 3.x and included more groupware features intended to appeal to enterprises.- Editions :Netscape...

that would bring that page up when a user pressed CTRL + ALT + F. The Netscape Fishcam was the 2nd live camera to start broadcasting on the Web. The Netscape Fishcam went off line in the Summer of 2007 and has been moved to a new site by its original creator, Lou Montulli

Lou Montulli

Louis J. Montulli II is a programmer who is well known for his work in producing web browsers. In 1991 and 1992 he co-authored a text web browser called Lynx with Michael Grobe and Charles Rezac while he was at the University of Kansas...

Programs/Events similar to Fishcam

Yule Log
Yule Log (TV program)
The Yule Log is a television program which is broadcast traditionally on Christmas Eve or Christmas morning , originally by New York City television station WPIX but now by many other Tribune Company-owned television stations, including WGN America, and by Antenna TV starting in 2011...

, which broadcast on WPIX on Christmas night
Orchestra (unofficial name), which broadcast on TV11 Thailand during downtime

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