This coming New Year’s Eve in Times Square will be the first made available by satellite feed for mobile phone TV and IPTV providers.
Boing Boing reader Craig Sender says, “The New Years Eve feed is clean (no bugs burned in or other ID) and uninterrupted (no commercials) so they can customize and use however they like. It will consist of an eight-camera mixed feed including panoramic views of Times Square and the ball from proprietary camera locations on rooftops and on the street.”
Here is a related article in Broadcasting and Cable magazine.
Reader comment: David A. Gilman says,
The Worldwide Feed for NYE has always been available commercial free via satellite. The coordinates and info go out in a press release to the industry, and anyone who has the ability can suck it down and repurpose it into a news broadcast. The money to pay for the event is provided by sponsors, and in return, the Worldwide Feed covers those sponsors’ logos and signs a certain percentage of the time.