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Type of site | Video on demand |
|---|---|
| Available in | English |
| Founded | March 2006 |
| Headquarters | United States |
| Owner | AOL Warner Bros. Television |
| URL | www |
In2TV was a website offering ad-supportedstreaming video of classic TV shows in the United States. It was operated byAOL Time Warner as an outlet for the company's archival television programming.
In2TV was announced in November 2005 as a collaboration betweenAOL andWarner Bros. Television,[1][2][3][4][5][6][7] at the time both being owned by theTime Warner conglomerate. The site was created in part as a counteraction against the rapid rise in popularity of video hosting sites such asYouTube; when In2TV launched, Time Warner subsequently ordered all of its content (mostly posted by users, not by Time Warner itself) off YouTube throughDigital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) notices in order to divert traffic to In2TV.[citation needed] The service was launched with a party held at theMuseum of Television & Radio (later renamed as The Paley Center for Media) and on March 15, 2006[8][9][10] and was later integrated with AOL Video in December 2006.
When In2TV first launched the shows were categorized into channels.[11] These included LOL (Comedy), Drama Rama (Drama), What a Rush (Action), Vintage TV (Classic), Heroes Horror (Sci-Fi/Horror), Toon Topia TV (Cartoons) and Pilot Theater (first episodes).[12][2]
In2TV also included bonus channels featuring original content based on the TV shows featured on the service. These channels included:
After the move to AOL video in December 2006, the channels were dropped and the shows were put into more generic categories such as Animation, Comedy, Drama, Reality, Sci-Fi, Secret Agent, Urban and en Espanol.[citation needed]
AOL Video lost its rights to the Time Warner library when AOLspun off from Time Warner in 2009 to become an independent company, which was later acquired byVerizon in 2015 and later merged withYahoo to formOath (later renamed as the second incarnation of Yahoo Inc.) in 2017. By the time AOL had purchasedThe Huffington Post (later renamed as HuffPost) in 2011,[13][14] AOL Video had been dissolved. Links to the service now redirect to Huffington Post's TV section, which contains no archival video. What remains of In2TV's content was moved over to online platforms bearing the brands of the now-defunctThe WB andKids' WB and then toPlex,[15]Warner Bros. Discovery'sMax and itsFAST channels onThe Roku Channel andTubi[16] (with programming fromDiscovery's cable channels that added when WarnerMedia and Discovery merged in 2022).[citation needed]