Curated playlist
YouTube channels launched in 2006
- PBSPBS carried the 1973 Senate Watergate hearings gavel to gavel and alone rebroadcast them in prime time.
- Sesame StreetTest children lost interest in Sesame Street's human-only street scenes, so producers re-shot them with Muppets.
- Linkin ParkLinkin Park formed in 1996 in Agoura Hills, California, a suburb of Los Angeles, and went on to sell more than 100 million records worldwide. Its founders were high school friends with a bedroom studio and no record deal. Years of…
- France 24France 24 nearly launched under a name managers couldn't pronounce. The working title CFII was awkward to say in French.
- Al Jazeera EnglishEgyptian forces arrested three Al Jazeera English journalists in a Cairo hotel in December 2013.
- RobloxRoblox, pronounced ROH-bloks, reported an average of 85.3 million daily active users as of February 2025. The company also says its monthly players include half of all American children under the age of 16. Those numbers belong to an…
- Deutsche WelleRussia shut down Deutsche Welle's Moscow bureau on the 3rd of February 2022. DW then moved its Moscow work to Riga.
- BBC NewsIn the 1982 Falklands War, BBC News used an electronic camera in a war zone for the first time.
- Sveriges TelevisionSweden's public broadcaster SVT lost its television monopoly when TV4 began terrestrial broadcasts in 1992.
- RTVERTVE, Spain's public broadcaster, began as a wartime propaganda radio in Salamanca. Its radio service began in 1937.