Welcome to Television Internet
- Primetime, Online. From the beginning, Television Internet
Broadcasting Network has made historic and hit programming. As a pioneer
of internet series programming, Television Internet is the only company to
deliver original network-quality episodic programming over the internet. Television
Internet is not a leader in its industry, but an industry maker.
Launched in 1997, the
Television Internet Broadcasting Network today remains the only CDN (content delivery
network) producing and streaming half-hour, and now hour-long, original network-quality
filmed episodic programs for the web. Television Internet is headed by Anthony Kling, the
son of seven time Emmy nomiated, two time Emmy Award winning writer/producer Woody Kling.
Collectively, the Klings have been attached to all six decades of television history with
credits including All in the Family, the Carol Burnett Show and Maude
and two of the "Top 100 TV Shows of All Time" according to Variety.com.
Television Internet's
shows like its new series Sitcoma sitcom have been covered in virtually
every major television, internet, and wireless industry publication including the Hollywood
Reporter and Daily Variety. When their last series Muscle Beach
premiered in March 2000, Variety quickly praised the show as the "first
network-quality first-run series for the Web". Today, Muscle Beach is not only
the net's most watched series but also its longest running.
In 2001, Kling's Television Internet slated to
deliver over thirty hours of original series programming. Television Internet is currently
producing over sixty half-hour and hour-long on-demand original episodes. After having
been best known for its award-nominated
content, the internationally acclaimed Microsoft Content Partner has matured to become the
world's leading destination for original streaming video programming, streaming media
services, broadband services, and soon wireless programming, for its anticipated
deployment of TelevisionMobile.com. Today, Television Internet has three core businesses
(content, products, and services) and one affiliate business (Television Mobile, a
Microsoft Mobile Solutions Partner).
Some
of Television Internet's historic dates are:
1998
First original
primetime online series slated for production - Muscle Beach (Fall, 1998).
1999
First foreign language
promotion online for an internet webcast
- Television Internet Internationale (Spring, 1999).
First internet series
slated for half-hour streaming episodes
- Muscle Beach (Spring, 1999).
First multiple - format
series slated for the Internet - Muscle
Beach (Spring, 1999).
First
first fitness/bodybuilding online series
- Muscle Beach (Spring, 1999).
First series with
printable workouts - Muscle Beach
(Spring, 1999).
First industry
recognized primetime online series - Muscle
Beach (Fall, 1999).
Second original
primetime online series slated for production - Sitcom,
a sitcom (Fall, 1999).
2000
First Department
e-store with series products for sale -
TVI Store (Spring, 2000).
First original
network-quality series to premiere online - Muscle Beach (March 22, 2000).
First multi-part
episode for an internet series - Arm
Series on Muscle Beach (March 22, 2000 begins).
First family name to be
attached to two centuries of episodic programming - Kling Family (March 22, 2000).
First hour-long
original special for the Internet - Muscle Beach Summer Special
(June 21, 2000).
Longest running
original series for the Internet - Muscle Beach (June 29, 2000).
First original
situation comedy series slated for production - Sitcom, a sitcom
(March, 2000)
First filmed
original internet series to reach second season - Muscle Beach
(Fall, 2000).
First series to be
slated for wireless delivery -
Sitcom, a sitcom (Spring, 2000).
First internet series
to star an African-American actor - Sitcom, a sitcom (Fall, 2000).
First internet series
to tackle interracial relationships and controversial social themes - Sitcom, a sitcom (Fall, 2000).
2001
First netcaster to
begin wireless deployment - Television
Mobile (Spring, 2001).
First wireless
broadcasting network - Television
Mobile (Spring, 2001).
First 1 1/2 hour movie
of the week for the Internet - Sitcom,
a sitcom (Spring, 2001).
First spinoff series
for the Internet - Sitcom, a sitcom
(Spring, 2001).
First cross-over
episode slated for the Internet -
Jim Morrow of Muscle Beach visits Sitcom, a sitcom (Summer,
2001).
Only series to be a
part of Pocket PC launch - Sitcom,
a sitcom (Summer, 2001).
First TV Movie of the
Week slated for the Internet - Sitcom,
a sitcom (Fall, 2001).
Company Profile
primetime, online.
Not sure if you are interested by what the
networks have ready for primetime? Then take a look at what's ready for primetime, online!
Primetime Online is the slogan of the Television Internet Broadcasting Network which
has revolutionized internet programming history.
muscle
When Television Internet's
series "Muscle Beach" first premiered in March, 2000, the comedy/fitness show
about bodybuilders and models immediately became a worldwide hit. Originally developed in
1997, "Muscle" quickly became the first network-quality episodic series for the
Web. In its first season, "Muscle" was propelled by international auds from
Sweden and Italy. In April, the show became the net's most watch original series. In June,
the series made history again by airing the net's first hour-long original special. By its
season finale in July, the show posted its highest ratings ever on a night against CBS's
Survivor.
In July, Television Internet surprised industry
watchers by announcing that "Muscle Beach" had been picked up for not one but
two more seasons, slating the show to become the net's longest running series.
"Muscle", by year-end alone, will reach an unprecedented twenty-six half-hour
episodes, joined by new series this fall.
Television Internet's CEO and Founder Anthony Kling explained then
that "visitors to Television Internet are now viewing on average four episodes of
'Muscle' per site visit, amounting to an enormous eighty minutes of programming." By
renewing "Muscle", Kling estimates "that figure to increase 50% by year
end." However, by only November, 2001
"Muscle" eclipsed that estimate. "Today, Television Internet is worldwide
understood as the only company delivering half-hour and hour-long original series for the
web."
Kling believes that one of Television Internet's key strengths is name branding.
"Muscle Beach" has become the leading destination for fitness video and workouts
online while Television Internet remains the leading destination for streaming video
programming.
sitcom
Since September, 2001, Sitcoma
Sitcom has ...
Entertainment
Publications
been acclaimed as making "Internet history as Sitcom
becomes the first situation comedy series for the Internet" ... a new comedy from a
family that "collectively have been attached to all six decades of television history
with credits including All in the Family, the Carol Burnett Show and Maude"
... a show so good it
" 'could easily finish in the top ten of any network show this season ' " (Yahoo! News),
been praised as a show that's "on laugh
track", "first time an Internet program has been spun off from another ... just
like a half-hour TV sitcom, except that it's available only online", making
Television Internet "the first broadcasting company to deliver original programming to Windows' Pocket PC wireless devices" and "an
unsurpassed forum for incubating new programming ideas on their way ... to traditional
media" (Hollywood Reporter),
been covered in a story alongside Blink 182
and Julianne Moore (Playboy Magazine),
Technology Publications
received rave reviews from the cable
television show "Techlink" (Techlink),
been heralded for delivering the "Net's
First TV Movie of the Week" (Microsoft Newsstand),
been acclaimed for being part of the
"first wireless broadcasting network to deliver net-original series programming to
Windows Media-enabled Pocket PC wireless devices" (Microsoft Newsstand),
been the only series to be part of the
October 4, 2001 Microsoft press release in two continents for the Microsoft Pocket PC 2002
(San Francisco, CA),
been heralded by the Microsoft Corporation (San
Francisco, CA). "We are pleased that the Television Internet Broadcasting Network is
taking advantage of the new feature functionalities of Pocket PC 2002 in producing Sitcom
for the Windows Media platform, enabling to watch half-hour episodes, even hour and a half
movies of the week, with full screen, stereo sound," said Chris Hill, product
manager, Microsoft Corporation.
African-American Publications
been applauded for having
"the first African-American actress to star in an original series for the
Internet" ... a show that demonstrates that an " 'African-American women can be
funny, beautiful, and intelligent '" (BlackVoices.com),
been praised for Lunden De'Leon's
"historic performance as the first African-American actor to star in an original
series for the Internet" (North East Florida Advocate),
been reported as sending "a positive
image regarding the role of Black executives in Hollywood" and an "interracial
relationship" (Columbus Post Newspaper),
been called "not ... just any new sitcom; it will break
ground as the first-ever situation comedy show airing solely on the Internet." (Venus
Magazine),
called "the net's first original television movie of the
week, and the start of a half-hour series slated for ten episodes." (Global Black
Woman),
reviewed as " 'having a Black woman as one of the heads
of the network was important to the production of the series. It sends a positive image
regarding the role of Black executives in Hollywood,' " (Sacramento Observer),
"Kling is the son of
seven time Emmy nominated, two time Emmy Award winning writer/producer Woody Kling who
collectively have been attached to all six decades of television history with credits
including All in the Family, the Carol Burnett Show and Maude and two
of the "Top 100 TV Shows of All Time" according to Variety.com. The elder Kling
was intrumental with Norman Lear in the 1970s in placing African Americans in leading
comedic roles in shows like All in the Family, the Jeffersons, and Good
Times." (Natural Hair and Braid Magazine.)
Deaf Publications
been applauded for making "internet programming history
in 2002 for the deaf and hard of hearing. Sitcom will provide the hearing
impaired a new form of closed captioning for viewing the net's first situation
comedy" (Deaf Voice),
been heralded for providing "the hearing impaired a new
form of closed captioning for viewing the net's first situation comedy. (Deaf and Hard
of Hearing Services Center, Inc.)
" 'We hope that Television Internet's
small step to develop advances for the hearing impaired will encourage other online
companies to do the same,' " (Northern Virginia Resource Center),
and been praised for "providing for the hearing
impaired a new form of closed captioning for viewing the net's first situation
comedy" (Deaf Base). Other press
first net-network.
At the time Television Internet entered the
then nameless video-audio internet industry, the landscape was doted only by dot-coms that
delivered audio and video net events. Anthony Kling, founder and CEO of Santa Monica-based
Television Internet, knew that netcitizens deserved more. For Kling, they deserved
episodic programming worthy of being on CBS, ABC, or NBC.
Since its launch in 1997, Television
Internet today remains the only company producing and streaming half-hour, and now
hour-long, original episodic programming for the web. While other companies engage in
content aggregation of preexisting four to six minute video clips, Television Internet has
continued to develop the industry of original episodic content that it create. For
example, while other netcasters continue to flood the net with their six-minute animated
shorts, Television Internet in June gave netcitizens a historic choice to upgrade to the
net's first sixty-minute special.
comprehensive.
Since 1997, the Microsoft Windows Media Content
partner, internationally award-nominated company has matured from mere netcaster to now
the net's most comprehensive streaming media destination and to become a Microsoft Mobile
Solutions Partner.
Television
Internet has three core businesses (content, products, and series) and one affiliate
business (Television Mobile).
Content:
Channels, Television Internet Series, Television Internet Specials
vi Channels Television Internet pioneered the channel-format for
netcasting. On Television Internet, viewers can readily click to the individual selection
throughout the site from a left border, with programming airing 24/7 on individual
channels
vi Series Launched in 1997, TVI Series' first program "Muscle Beach" has
now become the net's longest watched streaming event with weekly viewers logging on to a
new episode every Wednesday night. From its initial premiere, "Muscle" has
become not only the net's first primetime online series but also its most popular with
overwhelming viewership numbers worldwide, 24/7.
vi Specials Television Internet Specials are devoted to event broadcasts.
Last year, the flagship series "Muscle Beach" made internet history with the
first 1-hour long special for the net, "Muscle Beach's Summer Break Special."
The special, which used groundbreaking embedded site promotions within the program's
breaks, is still one of Television Internet's most viewed programs (even during winter).
This year, Television Internet will deliver what has been heralded on Microsoft Newstand
as the first movie of the week for the Internet, a 1 1/2 hour special in conjunction with
its new series, "Sitcom".
Products: TVI Store, TVI Cards,
Television Internet Internationale
vi Store Launched in 1999, the TVI Store is still finding its place among the
e-commerce buyers as the only virtual department e-store where you can shop (for
approximately 10,000 products) and watch (TVI programming) at the same time. In 2000, the
TVI Store launched the first ever e-commerce tie-in to an episodic webcast with the
"Muscle Beach Store".
vi Cards Launched in 2000, TVI Cards is one of the fastest growing segments of TVI
where viewers are able to send cards from the hit series "Muscle Beach" while
watching the series.
vi Internationale Launched in 1999, TVI Internationale was the first online
foreign language offering for an episodic series. Today, providing lead pages for the hit
series "Muscle Beach", TVI Internationale daily provides an introduction to TVI
series for viewers worldwide in five languages. Television
Internet Internationale currently offers Television Internet France, Television
Internet Deutschland, Television Internet Italia, Television Internet
Japan, Television Internet España, the new Television Internet
UK/Ireland, and coming soon Television Internet Switzerland in conjunction
with its series "Muscle Beach."
Services: TVI Broadband, TVI Streaming Media Services
vi Broadbrand Launched in 2000, as the newest addition to Television
Internet, TVI Broadband is a
provider of DSL service, allowing customers to benefit from cost-effective, high-speed
access to the Internet using Digital Subscriber Line service. Television Internet offers two classes of service. Both ensure that
you enjoy true Broadband access to the Internet, while giving you the best value for your
actual requirements
vi Streaming Media Services Launched in 2000, TVI Services provides the same
streaming media services for corporations that have made "Muscle Beach" a
worldwide hit. With 100% uptime to date and prompt time's shorter than any other company
in the indusry, TVI's Services in many ways exceed the operations of multi-billion dollar
companies. TVI Service provide for clients personalized attention, creativity, and
competitive pricing.
Affiliate:
TVI Wireless (Television Mobile)
Television Mobile Television Mobile, the wireless division of the Television Internet
Broadcasting Network, was recently named by the Microsoft Corporation as a Microsoft
Mobile Solutions Partner. Television Mobile is the first wireless broadcasting network to
deliver net-original series programming to Windows Media-enabled handheld devices. As a
Mobile Solutions Partner of Microsoft, Television Mobile will be delivering its extensive
library of episodic programming over the Microsoft Windows Media platform. On March 7,
2001 at eStreaming World, Television Internet announced that it will deploy the first
wireless broadcasting network by year-end. Kling made the announcement during the
netcaster's presentation at the two-day streaming media conference held at the Los Angeles
Convention Center. Television Mobile has been covered in numerous leading publications
such as Wireless Reporter and Digitrends and will be featured on Techlink TV September,
2001.
Company History
Mission. Television
Internet was founded by you. Television Internet is the people's network. Your demands for
(1) better programming, (2) the end of VCR programming, and (3) shows when you want them,
how you want them, and as often as you want them created television internet. Since you
created it, that's why it's free.
Vision.
Television Internet was conceptualized in the early 1990s, years before the onset
of major internet traffic, by a young Anthony Kling. His vision at that time was to
broadcast to computer users around the world programming, episodic in nature, with
primetime-quality, that could be watched anywhere for free. With Television Internet,
Anthony began to establish that vision. In the fall of 1997, Anthony first introduced
Television Internet to the world wide web through the establishment of the Television
Internet Broadcasting Network.