Billions of people followed the State Funeral of HM Queen Elizabeth II worldwide, with 32 million in the UK alone. BBC Studios, the commercial arm of the BBC, streamed the event using a cloud based SRT distribution platform by Swiss startup GlobalM. The result: 12 hours of high-quality, interruption-free event coverage delivered to 22.4 million viewers via BBC’s international rights holders.
Founded in 2019, GlobalM provides an SRT-based digital network to distribute live events to rights-holding broadcasters, production partners and sponsors. Its media platform which turns smartphones into broadcast cameras is based on an advanced secure video streaming network and fulfils the demand for high-quality, low-latency live or file-based video delivery over the internet.
The partnership with BBC studios demonstrated just how this technology can is transforming the broadcasting industry. The BBC televised the Queen’s funeral across the U.K. through its BBC One broadcast television network. However, BBC Studios required a cloud-based media distribution workflow to deliver live feeds to its international rights holders with limited or non-existent satellite links.
Thanks to its partnership with the Geneva-based startup, BBC used the GlobalM network and Matrox Monarch EDGE encoder technologies, providing them with an easy-to-use, easy-to-setup solution to launch a same-day, cost-effective, IP-based distribution workflow. The workflow began with the Monarch EDGE multi-channel encoders encoding high-quality, low-latency international and domestic feeds to the GlobalM SRT streaming platform. The GlobalM orchestration network then distributed and transmitted the SRT-enabled feeds—including backup and redundant paths—to international rights holders across the globe while the master control monitored all streams in real time with the GlobalM web dashboard.
As a result, global BBC audiences got access to 12 hours of high-quality, interruption-free event coverage. Worldwide, around 22.4 million people in the UK watched The State Funeral of HM Queen Elizabeth II across all BBC channels, excluding those watching live, on mobile devices, or on catch-up.
“GlobalM and Matrox Video are honoured to have been entrusted to support arguably one of the biggest events in broadcasting history,” said Paul Calleja, chief technology officer and co-founder, GlobalM. “Matrox Monarch EDGE's high-quality and low-latency encoding support on the GlobalM private IP backbone provided BBC Studios with complete stability and quality for each stream, ensuring international rights holders near and far with exceptional event coverage.”
(Press release/RAN)
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