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How to Start an Internet TV Station
By: Seth Malave
Starting your own TV station may sound like a dream, but it's a dream you canachieve. Hundreds of millions of people all over the world connect to the Interneteveryday, some to learn new things and some to be entertained. Tap into theInternet television revolution gives you access to potential revenue that may begenerated through advertisers and membership fees. You can approach this severalways, one is quite simple and the other more challenging.
Start an Internet TV Station Using Veoh
Step 1
Visit the Veoh website and sign-up for a free account. You must provide a username,choose a password and enter your email address, birth date and zip code. These create anaccount for you to access Veoh.
Step 2
Join VeohPro. By joining VeohPro, you can take advantage of additional free video publishing tools. It provides video syndication to MySpace, YouTube and Google Videowithout manual uploading on your own.
Step 3
Make videos. You can produce your own home movies, acting in them yourself or havingfriends and family for you. Create something interesting that others would want to watch.
Step 4
Upload videos. You can upload any size video, no matter how long it is. Veoh does nothave upload limitations, a feature that allows your viewers to enjoy your feature-lengthfilms in one viewing without playing them in bits and pieces.
Step 5
Share your videos with fellow Veoh members. Notify your friends and family. You cansend them an email by adding the URL or link to your channel so that they can watchyour uploaded videos. They can also subscribe to watch future shows.
Step 6
 
Syndicate your videos on MySpace, Google and YouTube.
Step 7
Download and install VeohTV BETA so that you can download any TV shows free. Thisallow you to download and record TV shows just like a DVR. You can watch shows onyour TV for better viewing pleasure.
Step 8
Schedule the start and end dates for your video. The Veoh site creates a random play listof shows that are available to play each day, you cannot really control the time your videowill air.
Step 9
Change your content format as often as possible to make sure that you stay close to of thetop of the results page with new content.
Starting an Internet TV Station from Scratch
Step 1
Purchase video equipment such as cameras, microphones, sound equipment, soundmixers, and lighting.
Step 2
Use video encoding software to create your video for live streaming. Examples are AJAVideo, Apple Quicktime and Dolby Digital. They make video streaming softwarenecessary to provide video feeds for an Internet TV station.
Step 3
Install the video streaming software on your computer and start programming the device.
Step 4
Choose a streaming supplier. Adstream, Aspera and DGFastChannel supply streaming.The streaming supplier feeds your Internet TV station and supplies you with hours of service, which ensures your shows are available to viewers. They have multiple servers tohost your streaming videos, allowing hours of operation with very few or nointerruptions. Furthermore, you will not have to worry about bandwidth should your viewership increases.
Step 5
Choose a video format to use. You can choose Windows Media Player, Quicktime or Flash. These players can allow most viewers to view your Internet TV station from their computers with ease.
Step 6
Build a website to host your TV station. You can also upload your videos on videohosting sites such as YouTube.
Step 7
Build a virtual studio and start producing your TV programs based on the types of audience you are targeting.
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