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German public broadcasters open source their streaming platforms

ARD and ZDF want to put the code for their streaming media libraries on a common basis. Parts of it are also to be made freely available.

"If other institutions – including media companies that compete with us – use the software, then you can also imagine it as the nucleus for a large German-language platform." ARD and ZDF are thus also placing their media libraries on a common technical basis, having already grown together in terms of content in recent years. "In this way, we are giving something back to society for which it has paid us," comments ZDF Director General Norbert Himmler on the project.

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