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{{Short description|Canadian television program and website}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=February 2012}}
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| creator = [[Rae Hull]] & McLean Greaves  
| executive_producer = McLean Greaves
| presenter = [[Sharon Lewis]]<br>[[Ziya Tong]]
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| country = Canada
| network = [[CBC Television|CBC]]
| first_aired = {{Start date|2002|3|18}}
| last_aired = {{end date|2006}}
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'''''ZeD''''' was a Canadian variety television program and website. The series premiered on [[CBC Television]] on March 18, 2002 and ran to 2006.  Hosted primarily by [[Sharon Lewis]] and [[Ziya Tong]], ''ZeD'' publicized creative works from Canada and other countries, including a substantial portion of material [[User-generated TV|created by viewers and new artists]].  ''ZeD'' thus considered itself to be "[[open-source model|open-source]] television."<ref name="Wired">{{Cite web|url=https://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,67205,00.html |title=Gore's TV Seeks Northern Insights |last=McKay |first=Niall |date=April 14, 2005 |access-date=March 15, 2007 |work=[[Wired News]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061112054837/https://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,67205,00.html |archive-date= 12 November 2006}}</ref>

The website claimed thousands of users, and the series, while somewhat obscure, was nominated for several awards and influenced some [[Television in the United States|US television]].<ref name="Gill">Alexandra Gill, "What Al Gore sees in ZeD," ''[[The Globe and Mail]]'', April 19, 2005, pg. R.3.</ref>  A music album, ''ZeD: Live Off The Floor'', was also spun off the series.