Before AWS, I worked at an organization that owned and operated their own sports TV channel that provided content by aggregating tens of venues worth of local sports feeds into one 24 hour TV channel. The infrastructure and logistics of operating a broadcast grade network on this scale were immense, and it always proved difficult and expensive to change and maintain.
This was not a localized problem, as media companies and aggregators face similar challenges with their own broadcast infrastructure. Consolidating feeds from the non-urban area via satellite trucks, distribute video streams to multiple regions and countries, all while maintaining reliability and broadcast capability is still a difficult task and requires capital investment.
Introducing AWS Elemental MediaConnect