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Content distribution, affiliate, and playout technology news from NAB Show 2026. Covers CDN strategy, satellite-to-IP migration, affiliate signal delivery, and the tools that move content from production to audience at scale — with a focus on cost efficiency and reliability under live-event conditions.
Zixi demonstrates IP-based satellite replacement and dynamic market switching
Zixi used NAB 2026 to position its ZEN Master platform as a satellite replacement, showcasing market switching, ESNI/SCTE-224, and SPTS re-mux.
JioHotStar session maps infrastructure for 72 million concurrent live viewers
JioHotStar described CDN strategy, encoding, and capacity management for 72 million concurrent ICC T20 World Cup viewers at the Streaming Summit.
NBC Sports' Jon Miller: broadcast is stronger than ever, Peacock is complementary
NBC Sports President Jon Miller told Sports Summit that broadcast remains the strongest sports rights platform and Peacock complements rather than replaces NBC.
Streaming Summit panel: esports goes free, niche racing charges $300 a year
World Racing Group charges $300/year for 80–90 races; ESL FACEIT makes all esports content free — two models contrasted at Streaming Summit.
Paramount+ details shared Fire TV architecture for Paramount+ and Pluto TV
Paramount+ engineers explained how a single Amazon Fire TV codebase powers both Paramount+ SVOD and Pluto TV FAST in a Streaming Summit session.
WBD CTO Saxena outlines Max global DTC platform at Streaming Summit
WBD CTO Avi Saxena joined Dan Rayburn at Streaming Summit to discuss Max's international expansion, localization demands, and AI's role in live delivery.
Sinclair and ONE Media demo ATSC 3.0 delivering to TV, tablet, and mobile
Sinclair and ONE Media demonstrate a single ATSC 3.0 signal reaching TVs, tablets, and phones simultaneously at the ATSC booth in Central Hall.
Frequency powers 160+ FAST news channels, targets 100,000 live events in 2026
Frequency announced Studio enhancements at NAB 2026, serving 160+ FAST news channels across 70 million US homes with plans for 100,000 live events this year.
Streaming reaches 47.5% of US TV viewing as ad-tier hits 46% of SVOD subs
Viaccess-Orca data shows streaming hit 47.5% of US TV viewing in December 2025, with ad-supported tiers now representing 46% of premium SVOD subscriptions.
TV Azteca and Dolby bring Atmos immersive audio to free-to-air TV in Mexico
TV Azteca and Dolby announced Dolby Atmos delivery over ATSC 1.0 free-to-air broadcasts in Mexico, with Imagine Communications and Ateme as technical partners.
Oracle stages first public multi-vendor MoQ streaming interop demo at NAB
Oracle and five partners ran the first confirmed public cross-vendor MoQ (Media over QUIC) interoperability demo at NAB 2026.
Dan Rayburn opens Streaming Summit with AI trust as the defining challenge
Streaming Summit chair Dan Rayburn framed AI trust — not AI capability — as the defining challenge for streaming operators in his April 20 opening.
NAB bets creator businesses and broadcasters now need the same tools
NAB EVP Karen Chupka says the lines between broadcasters, streamers, and creators have collapsed — and the show floor now reflects that structural change.
Triveni Digital StreamScope MT-70 targets Brazil's ISDB-Tb to TV 3.0 transition
Triveni Digital's StreamScope MT-70 gives Brazilian broadcasters a single analyzer covering both ISDB-Tb legacy signals and the incoming TV 3.0 standard.
Sports Summit opens with rights and revenue panel on NAB's first floor day
The Sports Summit's opening session assembled Genius Sports, Utah Jazz, and Oklahoma City Thunder for a 45-minute overview on rights, reach, and revenue.
Quickplay launches AI social clip tool, lands Gray Media and TVNZ as customers
Quickplay debuted Social Signals at NAB 2026, an AI tool that turns trending moments into social clips in minutes, with Gray Media and TVNZ as new customers.
ICC CEO Sanjog Gupta brings cricket's 72M-concurrent-viewer milestone to NAB
ICC CEO Sanjog Gupta joins the NAB Sports Summit representing one of streaming's largest platforms — 72 million viewers watched the ICC T20 World Cup.
BritBox CEO opens Streaming Summit with North America SVOD strategy keynote
Robert Schildhouse, BBC Studios' Direct-to-Consumer CEO, opens the 2026 NAB Streaming Summit keynote on April 20 — the first BritBox leader to headline.
LVCC's $600M renovation puts NAB 2026 in a single footprint for the first time
A completed $600M Las Vegas Convention Center renovation consolidates all NAB Show programming under one roof for the first time in the show's history.
Streaming Summit confronts fragmented sports rights across broadcast and SVOD
Two Streaming Summit sessions on sports rights fragmentation and live UX place rights-map complexity at the center of the 2026 Streaming Summit agenda.
Streaming Summit 2026 frames five tracks around unit economics, not growth
The Streaming Summit organizes 85 speakers around bundling, churn, FAST/AVOD models, workflow cost, and discovery — all pointing to monetization over growth.
ATSC 3.0 ecosystem stalls as industry waits on FCC to set ATSC 1.0 sunset date
Pending FCC rulemaking on ATSC 1.0's shutdown date is holding back supply chains and device manufacturers from committing to volume NextGen TV production.
FIFA's host broadcast chief joins Sports Summit ahead of World Cup
Oscar Sanchez, FIFA Head of Host Broadcast Production, speaks at the Sports Summit on April 19 — the first senior FIFA production executive confirmed at NAB.
Broadpeak launches packager-level Multiview for live sports streaming
Broadpeak's Multiview composes live sport feeds at the packager stage rather than the encoder, reducing load and sending one stream to all devices.
Streaming Summit dedicates full session to AI chatbots for content discovery
The 2026 Streaming Summit devotes a session to live-test data on AI chatbots as discovery interfaces — the first Summit slot for AI as a front-end tool.
Synamedia Quortex PowerVu cuts affiliate distribution costs by up to 80%
Synamedia's Quortex PowerVu replaces satellite-to-IP affiliate distribution with an edge-playout model, avoiding full-feed decoding and cutting costs up to 80%.
Streaming Summit lines up Paramount, Prime Video, NBCU and JioStar on scale
Paramount CTO Phil Wiser, Prime Video's BA Winston and NBCU's Matt Strauss headline a Streaming Summit framed around monetization and scale.
Sports Summit expands to four days with NBC's Jon Miller headlining
NAB opens the Sports Summit to all floor pass holders across four days, with Lumen as title sponsor and NBC's Jon Miller on the main stage.
NextGen TV goes global at NAB with Brazil minister and FCC commissioner
Brazil's Communications Minister and FCC Commissioner Olivia Trusty share a NAB stage on April 20 as Pearl TV launches its NextGen TV Converter Box.