How to Start an Internet TV Station

Screenshot of Veoh Site

Starting your own TV station may sound like a dream, but it's a dream you can achieve. Hundreds of millions of people all over the world connect to the Internet everyday, some to learn new things and some to be entertained. Tap into the Internet television revolution gives you access to potential revenue that may be generated through advertisers and membership fees. You can approach this several ways, one is quite simple and the other more challenging.

Things You'll Need

• Internet connection Computer Web cam or digital camera Video camcorder Microphone Internet TV hosting service Video encoding software Video stream supplier

Instructions

Start an Internet TV Station Using Veoh

1. Visit the Veoh website and sign-up for a free account. You must provide a surname, choose a password and enter your email address, birth date and zip code. These create an account for you to access Veoh.

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 Video without manual uploading on your own.

3. Make videos. You can produce your own home movies, acting in them yourself or having friends and family for you. Create something interesting that others would want to watch.

4. Upload videos. You can upload any size video, no matter how long it is. Veoh does not have upload limitations. a feature that allows your viewers to enjoy your feature-length films in one viewing without playing them in bits and pieces.

5. Share your videos with fellow Veoh members. Notify your friends and family. You can send them an email by adding the URL or link to your channel so that they can watch your uploaded videos. They can also subscribe to watch future shows.

6. Syndicate your videos on MySpace, Google and YouTube.

7. Download and install VeohTV BETA so that you can download any TV shows free. This allow you to download and record TV shows just like a DVR. You can watch shows on your TV for better viewing pleasure.

8. Schedule the start and end dates for your video. The Veoh site creates a random play list of shows that are available to play each day, you cannot really control the time your video will air.

9. Change your content format as often as possible to make sure that you stay close to of the top of the results page with new content.

Starting an Internet TV Station from Scratch

1. Purchase video equipment such as camera, microphones, sound equipment, sound mixer and lighting.

2. Use video encoding software to create your video for live streaming. Examples are AJA Video, Apple Quicktime and Dolby Digital. They make video streaming software necessary to provide video feeds for an Internet TV station.

3. Install the video streaming software on your computer and start programming the device.

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 to host your streaming videos, allowing hours of operation with very few or interruptions. Furthermore, you will not have to worry about bandwidth should your viewership increases. For more information, check the link under "Resources."

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.

6. Build a website to host your TV station. You can also upload your videos on video hosting sites such as YouTube.

7. Build a virtual studio and start producing your TV programs based on the types of audience you are targeting.

8. Attract audience to your Internet TV station by using SEO (Search Engine Optimization) or Internet marketing. You can also collaborate with other websites such as YouTube, Google Video, Yahoo Video or any Video hosting sites.

9. Attract advertisers and allow links to their sites so you can make money. Google ad sense is also helpful for ad alignment and revenue from ad clicks you host on your TV station site.

10. Schedule your content and provide this on the schedule page of your website.

Tips & Warnings

• Make sure to send email to notify your subscribers so that they can always tune in to watch your latest shows. Use a video RSS feed to enable viewers to subscribe to your feed so that they can receive instant notification whenever you post new videos.

• Keep your show wholesome so that you will stay on the air.

Resources

• Veoh
• Video Streaming Software
• Video Streaming Supplier