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Sumo TV was a free-to-air television channel owned by Cellcast Group. On 1 July 2006, You TV was relabelled as Sumo TV.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Television Broadcast Licensing Update September 2006 )〕 Sumo TV was officially launched on 28 November 2006 claiming to be the world's first user-content TV channel.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Cellcast launches Sumo.TV on Sky )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=User-generated TV channel launches )〕 Through their website and programming blocks on other TV channels, Sumo TV also had operations in America, Asia, Europe and the Middle East, with a showcase of local content.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Sumo.TV Officially Launched In India by Cellcast )〕 Every time a clip was broadcast, the originator of the content received a percentage of the revenues generated.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Video-sharing makes move to TV )〕 The channel was criticised by Ofcom for putting too much responsibility for complying with the broadcasting code on the creators of user-generated clips rather than performing sufficient checks themselves.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Sumo slammed over users' video clips )〕 In 25 October 2007, James Brown was hired as Sumo TV's creative and editorial director,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Sumo.tv hires 'Loaded's James Brown )〕 Brown introduced a dozen new programmes.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Q&A: Brown explains shake-up at Sumo )〕 On 27 March 2008, it was announced that Cellcast had sold Sumo TV and Sumo TV +1's EPG slots to Discovery for £1.4m as well as receiving a slot further down the Entertainment category of the EPG.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Sumo owner in £1.4m EPG slot trade )〕 Later in the year Sumo TV moved to the Adult category followed by the Gaming and Dating category allowing them to broadcast content from Cellcast's adult channels at night. Sumo TV returned to the Entertainment category on 25 November 2008 with programming from Psychic Television as well as archive footage. On 21 August 2012, Sumo TV closed and was replaced with a simulcast of the Horror Channel on Sky channel 198.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Horror Channel Now Also On Sky 198 from 9am till 9pm! )〕 == References == 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sumo TV」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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