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Social news aggregator Reddit launches TV show - Yourweek

Conde Nast-owned social news website Reddit has launched a weekly TV news programme in the US based on recommendations made by users of its bookmarking service.

Reddit and US public service broadcaster PBS have developed the Yourweek show to focus on popular stories bookmarked on the Reddit front page each week.

The TV programme will take recommendations from users of the site to cover politics, arts, international events, science, technology, social, sports, and pop culture.

"Whereas traditional television new stories end once the show airs, YourWeek - like Reddit - will just be the beginning," wrote Alexis Ohanian, co-founder of Reddit on the aggregator's blog.

"Throughout the week you'll be able to share your thoughts on yourweek.reddit and follow up with content you think was missed or corrections that should be made."

The show has similarities to the Sky.com News programme launched last year in the UK by the cable broadcaster to focus on the most popular stories, videos and debates on the web. The broadcaster also launched a wholly online news show, Sky News Unplugged, earlier this month.

Popular daily news items on the web also determine part of the news programming developed by peer-to-peer TV network Current TV.

In the UK, the Google Current show broadcasts three new 90-second news shows the content of which is determined by popular web news search terms.

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