OTT for Regional Broadcasters
A platform that treats your linear signal, your catch-up archive, and your existing audience as first-class assets — with territory-rights enforcement, ad-supported monetization, and a migration path that does not ask viewers to re-learn where your channel lives.
From Linear to OTT Without Losing the Audience
Vucos for broadcasters is a streaming platform built around the realities of a rights-holding channel: a live linear feed that needs to be on every device, a catch-up window with strict per-territory expiry, an archive that becomes FAST and AVOD inventory, and an audience that already knows your brand. The platform ingests SDI, ST 2110, or contribution feeds; delivers ABR live with low-latency DASH and HLS; enforces geofencing and blackout at the edge; and monetizes via SSAI, dynamic ad insertion, SVOD, TVOD, and FAST channels against the same catalog.
Why this matters
Broadcasters face a specific version of the OTT problem. The audience is already there — loyal, measurable, tied to a brand — but every rights contract, every ad-sales deal, and every measurement currency assumes linear. Migrating to OTT without respecting those contracts breaks revenue; migrating slowly lets pure-play streamers capture the same viewers with less production cost.
Vucos is designed for that crossing. Territory rights, blackout windows, catch-up expiry, and content packaging rules are enforced as platform primitives rather than afterthoughts. The same system that runs your OTT apps also supplies FAST channels to third-party aggregators, respects your existing ad-sales inventory, and reconciles audience measurement back to the currencies that your sponsors still buy.
What broadcasters get
Linear-to-OTT simulcast
Ingest SDI, ST 2110, or SRT feeds; deliver low-latency ABR HLS/DASH on every device; maintain channel continuity for viewers arriving from your over-the-air or cable signal.
Catch-up with rights enforcement
Per-program catch-up windows with configurable expiry, restart, time-shift, and start-over — automatically aligned to the territory and platform rights declared in your MAM.
Ad-supported (AVOD & FAST)
Server-side ad insertion (SSAI), SCTE-35 aware break handling, dynamic creative swapping, and a FAST-channel packager so your archive becomes inventory on Samsung TV+, LG Channels, Pluto, and your own apps.
Territory & blackout enforcement
Geofencing, IP and device-level blackout, sports-league blackout tables, and per-region catalog rules enforced at the edge before a stream is ever delivered.
Audience migration tooling
Bring existing viewers across without forcing re-registration — SSO with your current identity, account linking from set-top boxes, and targeted in-broadcast CTAs that drive to your new apps.
Broadcaster-grade measurement
Reconciled linear + OTT viewership with cross-screen reach and frequency, exports to Nielsen, Kantar, and your sales-house trading currency — no separate measurement silo.
Recent customer stories
FTA channel launching a digital-first catch-up
A national free-to-air broadcaster needed a branded OTT app to complement the linear schedule and meet regulator catch-up obligations. Vucos delivered live simulcast plus a 30-day rolling catch-up with per-program rights enforcement — launched across mobile, web, and three smart TV platforms in under 30 days.
Archive monetization via FAST
A broadcaster with 40 years of local-language content used Vucos to stand up twelve genre-themed FAST channels. SCTE-35 ad breaks, SSAI, and syndication to two external aggregators were live in one quarter, opening a net-new ad-revenue line against content that had been dormant.
Live event peak with blackout compliance
A broadcaster running a high-profile live competition needed edge-level blackout enforcement for a contracted territory and sub-5-second latency for a second-screen companion app. Vucos handled a 2.1M concurrent peak with rebuffer ratio under 0.4% and zero blackout breaches.
Ingest, delivery, compliance
- SDI, ST 2110
- SRT, RTMP, RIST contribution
- MXF, MPEG-TS
- SCTE-35 ad marker passthrough
- LL-HLS (target duration 1-3s)
- LL-DASH (CMAF)
- Multi-DRM (Widevine, PlayReady, FairPlay)
- DVR window with restart and start-over
- Server-side ad insertion (SSAI)
- VAST/VMAP, SCTE-35 break handling
- FAST channel packager
- SVOD / TVOD / AVOD hybrid
- Territory geofencing (country, region, ASN)
- Sports-league blackout tables
- Per-program catch-up expiry
- Watermarking (A/B session)
- Nielsen DAR-compatible event schema
- Kantar cross-media output
- Custom sales-house exports
- Reconciled linear + OTT reach
- Rights & inventory mapping (3-4 weeks)
- Apps + live path build (6-8 weeks)
- Soft launch with CTA-driven migration
- Sunset of legacy OTT or catch-up stack
Key Takeaways
- Simulcast of your linear feed on every device with sub-5-second latency
- Catch-up with per-program expiry enforced against your MAM rights metadata
- SSAI and SCTE-35-aware ad breaks for AVOD and FAST channel monetization
- Territory, blackout, and platform-rights enforcement at the edge
- Viewer migration tooling — SSO, STB account linking, in-broadcast CTAs
- Reconciled linear + OTT measurement exported to Nielsen, Kantar, and your sales house
Frequently Asked Questions
Can we keep running our existing playout and ad-sales workflow?
How do you enforce per-territory and per-program rights?
Do you support FAST channel distribution to Samsung TV+, LG, Pluto, and others?
How do you migrate our existing audience without losing them?
How is audience measurement reconciled with our linear currency?
Can Vucos run alongside our current digital platform during transition?
Related
Live TV
A broadcast-grade Live TV experience built for OTT scale — with 24-hour time shift, catchup, a full EPG, multi-audio and multi-subtitle, low-latency delivery, and cloud DVR available on every device you ship.
Read moreFAST TV Platform
FAST is the fastest-growing corner of OTT because it rebuilds the economics of linear TV on IP rails. Vucos provides cloud playout, SSAI, dynamic ad pod management, EPG automation and the distribution pipes to ship channels into Samsung TV Plus, LG Channels, Roku Channel, Pluto, Amazon Freevee and operator bundles — on one control plane.
Read moreVucos Monetization Engine
One engine for every revenue model you run — subscription, ad-funded, transactional, and hybrid — with entitlement, billing, and ad serving wired into the same data plane so you never reconcile three systems again.
Read moreReady to learn more?
Talk to an architect about how this fits your deployment.