Webisode

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An episode of a television show that airs initially as an internet download or stream as opposed to first airing on television.

A webisode is simply a web episode – a form of new media that characteristically features a dramatic, serial storyline, and where the primary method of viewership is streaming online over the internet.

[Origin: 1998-99; Los Angeles, California. First known use of the word Webisode, attributed to Stan Lee Media in the promotion of the 7th Portal online superhero series created by Jesse Stagg and Steven Salim.]

[Origin: 1996; Earlier usage by the textually-based seaQuest 2047 to describe their periodic publications, beginning circa 1996.]