QuakeLive.tv grew out of the success of EnemyTerritory.tv, a shoutcasting, demo and Video on Demand resource for the competitive community of Enemy Territory Quake Wars. When the popularity of ETQW began to wane, the ETTV staff saw an opportunity to continue their work with QuakeLive, and the QuakeLive.tv name was a natural way to build off of ETTV's successes. The QuakeLive.tv staff is entirely volunteer, and their love of the game serves as the motivation for putting in the many hours it takes to create videos, collect demos and provide the weekly shoutcasts.

Before launching the site, when QuakeLive was still in its beta stage, the QLTV staff started a bit of buzz around their planned features on the official QuakeLive forums. The community resoundingly approved of the idea and agreed that a dedicated shoutcasting presence for QuakeLive was needed.

QuakeLive.tv's goal is to supply everything in one destination--information on upcoming matches, archives of past matches, tons of great video on demand that shows full-length match replays from the lead shoutcaster's perspective, an expansive demo collection, and tons of other great, community-building features.