web TV

1 3.7

A type of show that people watch only on the internet, not on regular TV

noun

Texting

: televisión por internet

Many people are shifting from traditional cable to web TV for their entertainment needs.

Examples

Mark Kenyon has been including various blog articles from my site for his "Friday Morning Mashup," and also puts together an outstanding web TV show featuring episodes every other Monday throughout hunting season.

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Living blogging and independent web TV have become part of the web because the technology is in place to allow them to exist.

Blog text (10)
It has a browser, it supports web TV, it supports BitTorrent and supports RSS.
In that series, Jennette's character Sam travels from Seattle, where "iCarly" was set, to speak about web TV series at Hollywood Arts High School, the setting for "Victorious."

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The latest web TV series has gained a large following due to its original storytelling.
With the rise of web TV, viewers can now enjoy exclusive content not available on regular television.

Synonyms

web television

vsweb TV

Texting

3.8

Shows or series made for the internet rather than for TV broadcast

is released only via the internet and not by other channels

How Professional

docuseries

4.1

web TV

Texting

1 3.7

webisode

Texting

3 5.9

clip

526 1.9

home movie

34 2.8

Surface Forms

web TV singular

web TVs plural

Morphology

web + TV

The compound 'web TV' directly combines 'web' (internet) and 'TV' (television), so the meaning—television content delivered via the internet—is inferable from the constituents. This noun+noun compounding follows regular composition patterns and is cross-linguistically transparent, so a B1 learner who knows both words would understand it.

Etymology

Web TV comes from putting TV shows on the web, meaning the 'internet', instead of on regular television channels. That's why web TV now means 'TV-style series made to be watched online', not on traditional TV.