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HOW TO: Launch a Broadcast “TV” Channel for Your Nonprofit

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Nonprofits will soon be broadcasting their own live TV programs to households around the world simply with a Ustream channel and a smartphone. Start building your channel and live-streaming communities now. When you are ready to broadcast, simply posts links to your “Show&# [see below] to your social networking communities.

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Netflix built an army of servers to stream TV—now it’s powering games

Fast Company Tech

A little over a decade ago, Netflix decided to take streaming into its own hands: Instead of relying on commercial content delivery services, the streamer built its own servers from scratch, and gave them away to internet service providers. It can serve about 500,000 simultaneous streams. Thats something that were building now.

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Canada will tax online streaming companies to fund local broadcasters

TechSpot

The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) is imposing a new tax on online streaming services, requiring Netflix, Amazon, and other major companies to contribute five percent of their Canadian revenue to the local broadcasting system. Read Entire Article

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China’s state broadcaster takes small stake in iQIYI as revenue falls

TechNode

Chinas state broadcaster, China Central Television (CCTV), has taken a small stake in iQIYI as the video-streaming platform grapples with declining revenue. Beijing iQIYI Technology Co. added CCTV Integrated Media Development Co. as a shareholder with a 0.9999% stake, according to corporate filings.

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The Essential Tech Elements for Virtual Fundraising Events

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Streaming Platform. You’ll need a livestream platform for your virtual event if you are going to broadcast videos, live presentations, a combination of both, or if you want to pre-record a presentation but still make it appear live. Streaming on Multiple Platforms . Looking to stream your virtual event on more than one platform?

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Announcing… NonProfit Times TV!

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Live broadcasting via the Web has been around a couple years thanks to sites like UStream.tv , but the nonprofit sector has been slow to adopt this new technology… until recently. As social media fundamentally changed print journalism forever, so will Web TV and its impact on broadcast and cable TV programming.

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Lollapalooza is streaming a special four-day broadcast for free on YouTube this year

The Verge

The set will stream from July 30th to August 2nd, beginning at 6PM ET. More than 150 performances will be available during the four-day broadcast, in a combination of past Lollapalooza sets and new live originals, according to the festival’s website. Photo by Josh Brasted / FilmMagic. Lollapalooza will happen this year — on YouTube.

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