QOOB
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QOOB was an Italian
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

 television channel
Television channel
A television channel is a physical or virtual channel over which a television station or television network is distributed. For example, in North America, "channel 2" refers to the broadcast or cable band of 54 to 60 MHz, with carrier frequencies of 55.25 MHz for NTSC analog video and...

 owned by MTV Italy
MTV Italy
MTV Italy is the Italian speaking version of the popular 24 hour music and youth entertainment channel. Unlike its counterparts elsewhere in Europe, MTV Italia is a national channel available free-to-air on terrestrial television since September 1, 1997 and available on digital terrestrial...

, launched in 2005 and permanently closed in 2009.

Content

Was launched in November 2005 as Your Open Source on Telecom Italia Media
Telecom Italia Media
Telecom Italia Media is an Italian commercial television network, founded in Rome, Italy by Seat Pagine Gialle in 2003 and later acquired by Telecom Italia and listed on Italian Stock Exchange.-Overview:...

 analogue television frequencies.

Broadcasting indie music videos and user-generated contents, on April 8, 2006, was renamed as 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...

and later on November 30, 2006, was again renamed as QOOB.

From January 1, 2009 to February 9, 2009, Telecom Italia Media
Telecom Italia Media
Telecom Italia Media is an Italian commercial television network, founded in Rome, Italy by Seat Pagine Gialle in 2003 and later acquired by Telecom Italia and listed on Italian Stock Exchange.-Overview:...

 has temporary stopped the broadcasting and finally closed on November 3, 2009.

A program called The QOOB Factory on MTV Brand New
MTV Brand New (Italy)
MTV brand:new was an Italian television channel and plays mainly Indie music videos with many music-related themed zones and some productions from MTV USA like Beavis and Butt-head subtitled in Italian....

 broadcast user-generated videos from QOOB website.

External links

  • QOOB Official Website
  • QOOB on 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....

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