When
television is being watched by subscribers or customers from streaming IPTV
providers such as NuMedia and others, they are usually on what is referred to
as a carriage deal which was negotiated before they launched their service to
the public.
Nearly all
Television networks negotiate carriage deals with the content providers. There
are scales that determine how much the fees will be to the IPTV service based
on how many customers the service has viewing their content. There are
negotiations that determine how much the providers will pay and where channel
streams can be watched.
We have seen
carriage deals that don't allow the operator to provide services outside of the
customers home but that wouldn't work in today's world where most customers use
their phones and tablets to view their TV on a regular basis. This forces the IPTV providers to pay more
money for that license, to meet the demands of their subscribers.
In the end it really comes down to how much you want to pay based on the level of service you wish to provide your subscribers. This is why all streaming IPTV services are not the same. Some pay just the bare minimums that the Networks ask for, while others like NuMedia pay more to offer more features and a higher quality service.
Some channels
that are purchased under these carriage deals are licensed in blocks from a
wholesale channel aggregator, but deals for premium channels such as HBO and
NFL channels are usually negotiated individually and are expensive and once
again are necessary to compete in the IPTV market.
Many times
IPTV providers must agree to ‘minimum guarantees', meaning the IPTV operator
pays a minimum price regardless of many customers actually subscribe to their
service making it a risky gamble on the provider's end. That is why TVizion
over delivered when it launched.
Many smaller
IPTV services cannot afford the costs to get premium channels because smaller
operators don't have the necessary money at hand to launch their service. These
IPTV brands come and go. It takes a lot
of money to start a streaming IPTV service if you want to do it right.
TVizion is a
“Master Reseller” from our aggregator and didn't have customer base cash or
flow problems and it didn't plan on failing, so they over delivered with their
channels, added some great support and kept prices as low as they could.
So yes NuMedia is legal.