IDA's Undercover TV Celebrates One-Year Anniversary

Catch UTV When It Airs on Your Local Public Access Station

It was one year ago on January 1st, 2005, that IDA President and founder Dr. Elliot M. Katz first proposed his idea for a new television show called Undercover TV (UTV) that would expose the abuse of animals taking place behind the scenes of factory farms, fur ranches, research laboratories and other industrial dungeons to viewers across the nation. Looking back over the last year, UTV has been amazingly successful in this goal, and continues to grow and evolve as more people tune in. Here are some of UTV's key accomplishments to date:

• UTV now shows weekly in 67 cities around the country, and airs sporadically in even more places. As UTV's network of volunteer distributors continues to expand, our message spreads ever more widely across the public airwaves to new communities. Millions of viewers from coast to coast can already watch UTV, making it the most viewer-accessible animal rights television program in history.
• UTV's Producer, Gabe Quash, recently finished editing the 29th episode, featuring footage from the award-winning Tribe of Heart documentary "The Witness." Be sure to catch this eye-opening installment when it airs in your community!
• UTV has been widely recognized as one of today's most innovative and effective animal advocacy campaigns. The show has been written about in several publications, most recently in the October 2005 issue of Satya magazine. Last month, a blogger on a popular animal rights list wrote, "Recently I came across...Undercover TV, an initiative that really impressed me...It's such a simple and brilliant idea, I wondered why no one had thought of it before." In addition, the latest issue of VegNews magazine features UTV's host - bodybuilder and IDA Vegan Spokesperson Kenneth Williams - on the cover.

With all that UTV has done to bring animal abuse into the public eye in 2005, IDA looks forward to achieving even greater success with the show in the coming year. A website redesign is currently in the works, and we hope to have episodes available for download from the Internet very soon. Stay tuned to IDA for more UTV news in 2006, and visit www.undercovertv.org to learn more!

What You Can Do:

• UTV airs in dozens of communities around the country. View our Schedule for channels and times, and check out an upcoming episode.
• If UTV does not yet air on the public access station in your community, volunteer for UTV's distribution network. As a resident of any city, you can submit episodes of UTV to your local public access station simply by dropping off a box of tapes every few weeks. Contact undercover@idausa.org for more information.
• UTV is seeking undercover and investigative video footage to show on the air. If you have video footage that exposes violence against animals, please e-mail undercover@idausa.org or send a copy to our main office (131 Camino Alto, Mill Valley, CA 94941). Please specify if you would like to remain anonymous.