TV station hosting takes your live channel and your programme library to viewers on every screen. Ours delivers through the Akamai CDN and runs in StreamHub, our own panel: live TV, video on demand, DVR, adaptive streaming, content protection, your own ads and real-time analytics, from 20 TB a month.
Each part below is a tab or a channel type in StreamHub, so your team runs the whole channel from one login.
Your channel live, around the clock, sent over RTMP from OBS, Wirecast or your playout system.
Shows, news and catch-up in a VOD channel beside your live one, ready whenever viewers are.
Several qualities at once, up to 4K. The player picks the best quality each viewer's connection can handle, so the picture keeps playing.
Viewers pause and rewind live TV up to 1 hour, catch up on what they missed, then jump back to live.
GEO Secure plays your channel only where your rights allow; Domain Lock keeps the player on your own sites.
Fully responsive, on phones, tablets, computers and smart TVs, with no app or plugin. Your logo on it.
Who is watching now, minute by minute, plus views, watch hours, quality, countries and devices.
Pre-roll video ads before live, on your terms, so the channel earns from its own audience.
Picture one fuel station for a whole country: every driver joins the same queue. A single streaming server works the same way. Every viewer connects to it from wherever they are, and once its port is full the rest wait. A CDN is a fuel station in every town: Akamai serves each viewer from the edge server nearest them.
| Your own server | StreamHub on Akamai | |
|---|---|---|
| Viewers at 1080p | About 166 on a 1 Gbps port, then it is full | 200,000 and more |
| Far-away viewers | Their stream crosses the world, so it buffers | Watch from the nearest edge |
| Built on | One server, one ingest point: if either fails, you are off air | The Akamai CDN |
| Upkeep | Yours: system, streaming software, security fixes | Ours, kept up to date |
| Control panel | Buy one, or use the command line | StreamHub, included |
| DVR, ads, analytics | Each one yours to add | All in one login |
A 1 Gbps port carries 1,000 Mbps and each 1080p viewer uses about 6 Mbps, so about 166 people can watch before the next one has to wait.
One plan with every feature, quoted on the transfer your station commits to each month. The smallest commitment is 20 TB. You can buy any amount above it, and your price is based on the amount you buy.
Quotedfrom 20 TB a month
Delivered by Akamai's edge servers worldwide
Ordered through our sales team
Monthly billing, paid by bank wire transfer only, not by credit card. Prices exclude any applicable taxes.
You send one feed. The CDN copies it to every viewer, from the edge server nearest them, in the quality their connection can handle.
StreamHub runs it all: channels, VOD, protection, player, ads and analytics in one login
OBS, Wirecast or your playout system sends the live channel over RTMP; your shows go into the VOD library.
Edge servers around the world carry the channel in several qualities, with 1 hour of DVR so viewers can rewind.
In the HTML5 player on your website, on phones, tablets, computers and smart TVs.
StreamHub counts viewers minute by minute, so you see a programme land the moment it airs, and keeps every figure for the last 24 hours, 7 days or 30 days.
Sell your own sponsors and run their videos as pre-rolls before your live channel. StreamHub plays and counts them and takes no share: what advertisers pay goes to your station.
Tell our sales team about your channel and audience. We agree your commitment, set up the channel and send your StreamHub login.
Point OBS, Wirecast or any RTMP encoder at the stream address in StreamHub, upload your shows to VOD, and set your branding, protection and ads.
Embed the player on your website with one code and share your channel. Watch the audience arrive in real time.
Something we haven't covered? Our team answers every ticket within 24 hours, usually much sooner.
Submit a ticketTV station hosting is the streaming side of a television channel: it takes your live broadcast and your recorded programmes and delivers them to viewers on phones, computers and TVs. Ours runs on the Akamai CDN and is managed in StreamHub, our own control panel, with live TV, video on demand, DVR, content protection, ads and analytics in one place.
Because video is too heavy for one server to carry to a big audience. Akamai delivers your stream from edge servers close to each viewer, so when big news or a cup final brings everyone at once, viewers are served from many places instead of queuing at one server.
Your plan is priced on the transfer you commit to each month. You can buy any amount. The least is 20 TB, about 14,814 hours of viewing at 720p HD. Larger stations buy more, and your price is based on the amount you buy. Ask our sales team for a quote.
It is quoted for each station, on the monthly transfer you commit to (from 20 TB), because a regional channel and a national broadcaster need very different volumes. Ask our sales team for a price: tell them your expected audience and the quality you broadcast in. Payment is by bank wire transfer only, not by credit card.
Your channel is delivered in several qualities at once, and the player keeps choosing the best one the viewer's connection can handle. A viewer on fibre gets the sharpest picture; one on a train gets a lower quality instead of a frozen screen.
DVR lets viewers pause and rewind a live channel, then catch up or jump back to live, as on a set-top box. 1 hour of DVR is included, so someone who tunes in late can go back up to 1 hour and see how the story began.
Two ways, each set in StreamHub. GEO Secure plays your channel only in the countries you choose, for rights that stop at a border. Domain Lock lets only your own websites embed the player, so nobody can put your channel on theirs.
Yes. StreamHub plays your own video ads as pre-rolls before live starts: you add the ads, set a skip button, how often one viewer sees them and when a campaign runs, and see how many played, were watched to the end, skipped or clicked. The revenue is yours.
Yes. It is an HTML5 player that resizes to any screen and plays in the browser on phones, tablets, computers and smart TVs, with no app or plugin. You embed it on your website with one code and brand it with your logo.
Who is watching now, minute by minute, and over 24 hours, 7 or 30 days: views, watch hours, the most at once, the picture quality viewers received and how fast it started, plus their countries, devices, systems, browsers and the websites the player is embedded on.
Yes. StreamHub runs radio channels beside TV channels in the same login. If you have a radio station too, see radio station hosting.
Yes. Streaming online is a separate right from broadcasting, for programmes, films, sport and music alike, and your broadcast licence may not cover it. We provide the hosting, not the rights. GEO Secure helps you keep to the countries your rights cover.
Live, VOD and DVR on the Akamai CDN, with your own ads and real-time analytics in StreamHub. From 20 TB a month.
