The distribution of news content is a complex eco-system of news agencies and broadcasters all of which are both receiving and contributing content across shared content pools. Much of this contribution takes place over live feeds which need to be recorded in case the content is required in the future. The Time Addressable Media Store (TAMS) is an open source API specification from BBC Research and Development (BBC R&D which defines how to store small chunks of media on object storage and reference them through the API. This allows access to the content as soon as the chunk of media is written and registered with the API. The result is a single ingest can be used by multiple, geo-graphical distributed teams, for tasks like Post Production editing, broadcast playout and live streaming. AWS worked together with BBC R&D to bring together a set of news customers and agencies to think about the impact that TAMS could have on the distribution of news content.
