Speakers' Corner

Country

Canada

How it feels

This is a TV series that aired short videos made by everyday people. People could record rants, jokes, or performances in a public booth and the best ones were edited for broadcast. It was like a local public-access video sharing platform before the internet.

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What happens

Speakers Corner is a brand owned by Rogers Media that is used for its television segments airing on Citytv in Canada. The namesake television series aired weekly on CHUM Limited's television stations Citytv and A (formerly A-Channel) stations as well as CP24 in Canada from 1990 to 2008, featuring numerous short segments on a variety of topics as recorded by members of the general public in the form of rants, big-ups, shoutouts, jokes, music performances, etc. After the video was complete, it was edited for television. The show was an example of Citytv founder Moses Znaimer's philosophy of interactive broadcasting, and essentially created what some 21st-century media outlets would retroactively label as a precursor to YouTube. Znaimer revived the Speakers Corner booth and its original format as VoxBox in 2022. The new booth is located on the ZoomerMedia's ZoomerPlex on Liberty Village. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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