This is a category for award presentation programs (or ceremonies) on cable and network television, such as the Emmy Awards, the Cable Ace Awards, and other programs of that nature.

The fact that your website or you personally have received some sort of award is not a valid reason for submitting it here. This also applies to any sites for award-winning individuals (actors, directors, producers, writers, etc.), TV shows (including programs and movies), production companies, and studios.

Please submit only sites primarily featuring chat rooms, mailing lists, message boards or other means of discussing television topics and/or shows. Forums dedicated to the discussion of a single show should not be submitted to this category - please submit them instead to the show''s subcategory under Arts/Television/Programs.

Please submit only sites with content related to closed captioning for television, as opposed to captioning for Internet media, DVDs, or theatrical films.

Please aubmit only sites focused on commercials, characters, ad campaigns, and/or collections of media clips from commercials.

Sites for advertising production companies will not be listed here and should be submitted to Business/Arts and Entertainment/Media Production/Television/Commercials.

Please submit only sites that focus on television shows recorded on DVD. Sites that focus on DVDs of feature films should be submitted to Arts/Movies/Home Video/DVD. Online stores and other sites for the sale of discs, players and recorders will not be listed here. All such sites should be submitted to the appropriate subcategory in Shopping, such as Shopping/Entertainment/Recordings/Video/DVD or Shopping/Consumer Electronics/DVD Players.

This category is for sites that include guides for more than one television show. A guide for a single show should be submitted to the appropriate subcategory of Arts: Television: Programs.

If your site only contains episode summaries please submit to Arts: Television: Episode Guides.

Do not submit sites with pictures ''borrowed'' from other sites to this category.

Do not submit sites that are under construction.

Do not submit sites with no content.

No internet TV sites please. Submit these to:

Computers: Internet: Broadcasting

Do not submit your site here unless it is a collector''s site with a non-commercial focus. Otherwise, please submit to the TV/Movies Related Merchandise category.

Sites listed in here will offer information on Television Networks. The information must be available in English. If it is not, please suggest the site to the most appropriate

A Television Network is a distribution network for television content whereby a central operation provides programming for many television stations.

Please submit sites offering production services to http://freshlinks.net/odp.aspx/Business/Arts_and_Entertainment/Media_Production/ and satellite services to Arts/Television/Satellite.

Entertainment news belongs under Arts/Entertainment/Publications_and_Media.

Non-English language sites are not accepted here and should be submitted to World.

Please use the appropriate sub-category for a director, writer, host, or announcer of a television show.

If the person is an actor or actress please submit the link to the appropriate category in Arts: Performing_Arts: Acting: Actors_and_Actresses.

Please submit only sites devoted to more than one program to Arts: Television: Programs. Sites concentrating on a single program should be submitted to the appropriate Genre subcategory.

To avoid delay in listing, please review prior to submission.

Please submit websites once to the most relevant category in the directory.

Submit your site using your main url. Do not submit a redirect URL for your site; use your actual URL. Do not submit vanity urls.

Use your site''s actual title.

Create a brief description, under 25 words, listing the current content of your site (not the future content). Do not use marketing verbiage or first person verbiage (we, our, us) in the description. Do not use hype.

Sites under construction will not be listed. Do not submit sites with broken links or missing content.

Affiliate sites, multiple URL''s for the same organization and mirror sites will not be listed.

All listed sites are periodically reviewed. .

The ODP reserves the right to alter or replace a proposed description at any time at its sole discretion and editorial judgment.

Please submit only sites with content related to production, programming, and distribution of television available exclusively via satellite.

Sites with content focused on sales of satellite television dishes, receivers, and systems, as well as related parts, hardware, software, accessories, and/or services, including repair, installation and programming or reprogramming, should be submitted to Shopping/Consumer_Electronics/Digital_Satellite.

Sites for companies that provide sales and services related to satellite television, such as systems and installation, should be submitted to Business/Telecommunications/Wireless/Equipment/Satellite.

Sites with content in languages other than English should be submitted to the appropriate subcategory of World.

Affiliate sites whose primary focus is the sale or distribution of equipment and/or services for satellite broadcasters (including, but not necessarily limited to DirecTV, DishNetwork and DirecWay affiliates) will not be listed in this category.

Site pertaining to television schedules or programming information should be submitted here.

Sites about a specific network''s schedule only should be submitted in the proper category in Arts: Television: Networks. Site about a specific shows schedule should be submitted in the proper category in Arts: Television: Programs.

Site listed here include independent and network affiliated television broadcast stations. Please locate the appropriate geographical subcategory that best describes the location and broadcast area for the station.

• If the site is for an official Network, please suggest it to Arts/Television/Networks.
• Internet television stations should be suggested in Computers/Internet/Broadcasting/Video_Shows.
• Sites must provide content in English, otherwise please suggest to the most appropriate

  A television station broadcasts both audio and video to television receivers in a particular area. Many stations are distributed and affiliated with a particular Network i.e. NBC, PBS, etc.

Please only submit sites to this category that are mainly ''theme song oriented''.

For example: A site with a collection of downloadable theme songs, or lyrics would be suitable for submission. Whereas, a page about Knight Rider, containing only it''s theme would not be suitable. A much better category for that would be: /Arts/Television/Programs/Science_Fiction/Knight_Rider/

Please submit only sites primarily devoted to trading recordings of more than one television program. Sites dedicated to trading recordings of a single program should be submitted to the program''s subcategory under Arts/Television/Programs.

Sites where tapes and discs are sold for profit should be submitted to Shopping/Entertainment/Recordings/Video.

Please only submit sites that are focused on trivia for the television medium here.