TenbandTV is a video publishing and distribution platform operated by
Tenband Media, LLC. It is used by sports leagues, schools, broadcasters and similar organisations to
run their own streaming services.
What it does
- A content library. An organisation keeps its video in one place, whether the
files live with us, in its own Cloudflare Stream or Mux account, in Dropbox or Amazon S3, or
on its own YouTube channel.
- Live events. Scheduling a game or a broadcast, taking in the camera feed,
putting it on air, and keeping the recording afterwards.
- Its own websites and apps. We deliver each organisation a branded streaming
site, with the same catalogue available on connected TV platforms.
- Sponsorship. Local sponsor spots scheduled against that programming.
How TenbandTV uses YouTube
Many organisations already publish to their own YouTube channel and want to keep doing so.
TenbandTV works with that channel rather than replacing it. An administrator
connects their organisation’s channel from our console, and can disconnect it at any time.
We never create, own or operate a YouTube channel on an organisation’s behalf.
Everything below happens on a channel that already belongs to them, at their instruction.
What each permission is for
- Reading public channel and video information. So an organisation’s own
YouTube videos appear in its TenbandTV library alongside everything else, with the
right titles, thumbnails and durations — and so viewers can be shown when one of its
streams is live.
- Confirming which channel was connected. We read the authorising
channel’s name and ID once, so an administrator can see which channel is linked and so
we can refuse a connection that would link the wrong one.
- Creating and ending live broadcasts. When an organisation schedules a game in
TenbandTV and asks for it to also go out on YouTube, we create the corresponding
broadcast on their channel and close it when the game ends — so the same event does not
have to be set up twice, in two places, minutes before kick-off.
- Allowing embedding on their own past broadcasts. YouTube turns embedding off
on a recording when a live event was scheduled to be unlisted afterwards, and it cannot be
turned back on from YouTube Studio. Without this permission those recordings cannot play on
the organisation’s own website — the viewer sees “Video not
available” instead.
These actions require write access to the connected channel, which is why TenbandTV
requests the youtube.force-ssl scope. We do not read or change anything on any other
channel, we do not touch videos an organisation did not ask us to publish, and we do not use this
access for advertising or sell any data obtained through it. The full detail is in our
Privacy Policy.
Who signs in
TenbandTV is an operational tool for the staff of the organisations that use it, not a
consumer account service. Administrators sign in at
https://console.tenband.io, which requires an invitation — there is no
public sign-up. Viewers watch on each organisation’s own site and need no account at all.
Policies
Contact
Tenband Media, LLC
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
legal@tenbandmedia.com