Broadcaster Business FAQ
This FAQ covers the business basics on broadcasting on TVU.
To see the Broadcaster Technical FAQ click here.
To see how you can start making money as a TVU Broadcast Partner, click here.
What is the TVUBroadcast application?
What do I need to become a TVUBroadcaster?
What's the broadcasting process?
What is the TVUBroadcast application?
TVU's free TVUBroadcast software allows anyone with a PC (Windows or Linux) and a broadband internet connection to create their own TV channel.
Yes it is. TVU sells broadcast hardware and services to professional broadcasters, but for amateur broadcasters using the downloadable software, there are no charges for broadcasting on TVU.
First, TVU respects the rights of copyright holders. As a broadcaster, you affirm that you have the legal right to broadcast the material you show on TVU.
Second, we ask that you not broadcast any "adult" content.
If we find you to be in violation of these basics, we may take down your channel with no notice.
What do I need to become a TVUBroadcaster?
You will need:
- A PC running Windows (2000, XP, or 2003 Server; with IE 6.0) or Linux
- Internal/external video capture card for your PC
- A broadband Internet connection
- The free downloadable TVUBroadcast application
- An account on TVU
What's the broadcasting process?
1. You'll need to make the media (video and/or audio) that you want to broadcast available to your PC. If it's already there in the form of files, or if it's in the form of a stream that's available over the Internet, you’re set. If not, you'll need a hardware add-on, either an external device that connects to your PC via FireWire or USB 2.0, or an internal capture card. Your video source will plug into that device.
2. Via the TVUBroadcast software, you'll encode your files or the video source into Windows Media Video (WMV).
- If you're re-broadcasting a stream from the Internet, you won't need to do this if the source is already in WMV format.
- If you're broadcasting from files that are not in WMV format, encode them (you can do this within TVUBroadcast).
- If you're broadcasting from a live video source (i.e. video coming in over a hardware device, as discussed above), you'll be encoding in real time, i.e. running both the encoder program and the broadcasting application at the same time.
Contact information
Business Development team:
partners@tvunetworks.com
212.863.9900 (New York)
Broadcaster Support team:
broadcastersupport@tvunetworks.com
