The Indie Beat Television Progress Report
The Indie Beat Television Progress Report
By @limebar
It has been less than a month since we announced open submissions for The Indie Beat Television everywhere we could think to across the fediverse:
– On Animation Array
– On the Bonkboard
If you somehow haven’t heard of TIBtv, then visit any of those links to find out more.
Since then, we’ve been hard at work laying down the infrastructure, coding, transcoding, running tests, and making plans.
In this short time, I am happy to report that we have accumulated:
– 13.5 hours of music videos
– ~1/2 hour of original animation
– 14.5 hours of live stream recordings
– 15.5 hours of artist interviews
– ~1/2 hour of cross promos, station idents and jingles, eye candy, and more station materials…
– …for a total of 31GB of 720p @ 3000kbps transcoded video material and my tired old CPU is on fire!
This thing is going to happen. For real!
I am lucky to preview most of this material and wow, you are going to be amazed. The level of talent just on the fediverse is staggering. I already knew the musical talents were next level because I hear it every day on https://theindiebeat.fm, but some of these videos take my breath away!
And here is the real bit of news! We have a launch date!
Sunday, December 28th, 2025!
That’s right, we are planning to launch in the midst of that other music video channel’s death throes! Indie music videos will be there to comfort you, and there won’t be a moment’s gap in your music video stream!
But seriously, why the 28th? Well, we still need time to iron out the kinks and let more material flow in, and we have a special launch surprise from the incomparable @RobertaFidora that needs finishing, but mainly because that is smack in the center of the end-of-year holiday boredom period and we need something to look forward to and we hope you do too!
We still want and need:
– Original animations
– Music videos
– Station identifications and short form eye candy
There is still time and space for you to submit your indie art. There is even time to collaborate!
So keep those videos coming in to make history on December 28th!
