Move Networks Streams Oprah’s “A New Earth Web Event”

The past 2 Monday evenings, Move Networks has streamed Oprah’s live Web event to viewers all over the world—in Denmark, Egypt, Zanzibar, Hawaii, and many more locations. The event has been monumental in its breadth and reach, and Move Networks has been thrilled to work with Oprah, Harpo Productions, and Limelight Networks to pioneer the power of video streaming with a live event of this magnitude, as well as to provide the subsequent on-demand streaming of the event.

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In Oprah’s live Web classroom, viewers from all parts of the world call in, send video messages, or email questions for Oprah or Eckhart Tolle about Tolle’s book, A New Earth. Questions from viewers guide the Webcast’s discussion and heighten the event’s interactivity, enhancing the learning environment for each viewer. The only way to achieve this level of worldwide interactivity is through the Internet and Move Networks’ streaming to hundreds of thousands of people. A viewer named Cathy in Beijing, China, called in and said, “This is huge that we can have this one conversation around the world. I’m a girl from Deluth, Minnesota, living in Beijing, China, and I’m talking to Oprah in Chicago and Eckhart.” Oprah responded exuberantly, “Fun!”

If you haven’t watched Oprah’s event yet, it’s not too late to catch up. Watch the past two weeks’ Webcasts on demand, and tune in on Monday to participate in the discussion of Chapter 3. Let us know how it goes for you!

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Each of the “A New Earth Web Event” on demand webcasts needs to be broken up in several small segments.

I don’t have the time to listen/watch the 90 minute program all at once. I would like to be able to listen/watch the program for 15 minutes or a 1/2 hour, and then come back later and watch another segment.

Thanks for your help!

Diane, Move Media Player is designed so that you can watch the on-demand program for as long as you want, stop or pause it when you need to, and come back and watch again from where you left off. It’s easy to navigate through the video using the scrub bar. Simply drag the bar forward or back to bring the video to the exact position you want. Let us know if this helps. Thanks for watching!

Hello, Mr. Edwards. Enjoy your site, very informative. For Oprah and other live events, do you actually acquire the broadcast signal from satellites at your NOC or is this somehow streamed from a CDN you partner with today (they either acquire via satellite or take in the large bandwidth from Harpo)? I read about your Move SimulCode solution as part of an analysis for recommending your solution to a client so was curious how you actually bring in live content.

Best,
Ari

Ari, Thanks for your question. Move Networks has flexibility in all of the above. We can acquire the signal from our NOC, from a customer’s site or an event site, or from a CDN. For Oprah’s event, we acquire the live signal at Harpo’s studio.

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