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n. television programming produced for original distribution through the internet.
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Web television (abbreviated web TV) is original television content produced for broadcast via the World Wide Web. (The phrase "web television" is also sometimes used to refer to Internet television in general, which includes Internet-transmission of programs produced for both online and traditional terrestrial, cable, or satellite broadcast.)
Web television content includes web series such as Red vs. Blue (2004–present), Husbands (2011–present), The Lizzie Bennet Diaries'' (2012–present), Video Game High School (2012–present), Carmilla (2014–present)'', and Teenagers (2014–present), among hundreds of others; original miniseries such as Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog (2008); animated shorts such as those of Homestar Runner; and exclusive video content that supplements conventional television broadcasts. The current major distributors of web television are Amazon.com, Blip.tv, Crackle, Hulu, Netflix, Newgrounds, Roku, and YouTube. Examples of web television production companies include: Generate LA-NY, Next New Networks, Revision3, and Vuguru.
In 2008, the International Academy of Web Television (an organization headquartered in Los Angeles) formed with the mission to organize and support web television authors, actors, producers, and executives. The organization also administers the selection of winners for the Streamy Awards. In 2009, the Los Angeles Web Series Festival was founded. Several other festivals and award shows exist dedicated solely to web content, including the Indie Series Awards and the Vancouver Web Series Festival.
In 2013, in response to the move of the soap opera All My Children from broadcast to web television, a new category for web-only series in the Daytime Emmy Awards was created. Later that year, Netflix made history for earning the first Primetime Emmy Award nominations for web television web series, for Arrested Development, Hemlock Grove, and House of Cards, at the 65th Primetime Emmy Awards.