Station Distribution

Monetize local content by ingesting from thousands of stations to the cloud and delivering high-quality video to distribution partners

National TV distributors need to centralize content from thousands of stations and deliver high-quality (4K/HDR) normalized video via the cloud to cable operators and vMVPDs. Zixi provides scalable cloud-based management, stream normalization, and secure partner trust boundaries, ensuring reliable and cost-effective delivery which enables increased revenue from monetizable local content.

Features & Benefits:

  • Aggregate input from diverse affiliates and TV stations
  • Normalize inputs across various sources and formats (e.g., PID, SCTE)
  • Ensure demarcation and trusted handoff between partners
  • Rapidly deploy and unlock new revenue opportunities
  • Enable end-to-end monitoring, control, and orchestration
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Station Distribution Workflow

Zixi Advantages

Affiliate Uplinking and Low Bandwidth Contribution

  • Affiliates contribute to cloud local TV station content via Zixi 
  • Reliable contribution from TV stations with limited bandwidth 

Bandwidth & Cost Efficiency

  • Null packet compression 
  • Reduces egress costs with lossless compression 
  • Scales efficiently, lowering compute and infrastructure costs 

Content Sharing & Cloud Diversity

  • Share content with third-party platforms and receive it back for distribution 
  • Egress HOT HOT feeds with cloud diversity 
  • Quickly add more partners as needed    

End-to-End Monitoring & API Integration

  • ZEN Master provides end-to-end monitoring and quick RCA 
  • Integrates with existing NMS systems via API 
  • Simplifies programming distribution to internal organizations 
  • Flexible content delivery based on distributor contracts 
  • Native stream feeding into partner monitoring systems for video confirmation ​ 

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