Radio One DJ Annie Nightingale is to make her internet TV debut.

The presenter, who for many years made her home in Brighton, will front a chat and music TV web show on music website Netbeat from next month.

It will be webcast on Monday and Friday from the site's own studio.

Entitled TV on the Box, the 15-minute programme will be a platform for new bands championed by Netbeat and picked personally by Ms Nightingale.

Interviews with big names are expected.

Ms Nightingale said: "I'm always excited by the innovative and what might be called risk-taking.

"I'll be free to let my guests say what they want without the editing of terrestrial broadcasting.

"The traditional sort of gogglebox has really lost its drive and enthusiasm."

Netbeat will create a library of performances from which fans will be able to download material.

She is no stranger to innovation. She was Radio One's first female DJ when she joined the station in 1970 after launching her career with Radio Sussex.

Her Saturday late-night Radio 1 show is one of the most successful shows to be webcast, with a huge following in New York.

www.netbeat.com