FizTV

Tonight at 7:15 pm (Sao Paulo time), Brazil’s — maybe even the world’s? — first Internet user-generated content program airs on television channel TVA, bringing to fruition a project that’s been patiently marinating in Web form for a couple of months soaking up viewers, submitters and the curious alike. Similar to MTV’s QOOB TV that I wrote about here a few weeks ago, the channel will broadcast audience-submitted entries like animation and music vids pulled from the Web site FizTV, all presented one after another without the aid of annoying hosts. But the videos have to cut it to make the cream of the crop, a process that’s as straightforward as the submission process; each clip’s worthiness for television is voted upon by the site’s visitors.

FizTV and TVA are both owned by super-media company Grupo Abril, which happens to also have MTV Brasil in its assets. I’m all for better TV in between the novelas and dubbed-WB reruns, so I wish FizTV all the luck. To all our Internet-savvy Brazilian readers, we’re curious to hear your comments!