How TV 2 Regionerne streams always-on and event coverage with Castr
Always-on public-service streams and event-based regional coverage across eight Danish regional broadcasters, managed from one platform.
Denmark’s regional public-service broadcasting network
TV 2 Regionerne is the network of Danish regional TV 2 broadcasters, delivering local news, public-interest programming, and regional live coverage to audiences across Denmark.
Each regional company runs its own journalistic coverage and its own schedule of news broadcasts. Together they form a significant part of Denmark’s public-service media landscape, with every station answerable to the region it serves.
Livestreaming has become part of how that work reaches people. Local events, nature projects, public ceremonies, and breaking developments now play out in real time on a station’s own site, rather than waiting for a scheduled bulletin.
Separate setups across regional broadcasters with different needs
Regional broadcasters need streaming infrastructure that can absorb very different kinds of live work. Some streams are planned event broadcasts with a start and an end. Others are long-running public-interest feeds. Some are temporary channels for a single piece of coverage, while others run continuously for days, weeks, or years.
Those two jobs ask for opposite things. An event wants a setup that goes up quickly and comes down again, while a permanent camera is judged on whether anyone has to touch it at all. One platform had to hold both.
One stream is straightforward. Eight broadcasters running permanent cameras and one-off events side by side, each on its own setup, is where the work piles up.
The priorities
- Regional livestreams across multiple TV 2 stations
- Always-on camera feeds that run for months at a time
- Event channels that can be set up and retired quickly
- HLS delivery and adaptive playback across devices
- Simulcasting to external destinations alongside a station’s own site
- Shared access for technical staff working across stations and shifts
TV 2 Regionerne needed range, not just a reliable stream
A basic live streaming tool would have covered the event broadcasts and little else. The requirement stretched further than that: cameras running unattended for months, channels that appear for a single ceremony and disappear again, simulcast destinations, and technical staff spread across separate regional companies.
Castr could hold that whole range in one account without forcing the permanent feeds and the temporary ones into the same shape. That mattered more than any individual feature, because the mix is what makes regional broadcasting awkward to systematize.
One central platform for every region, station, and event
TV 2 Regionerne came to Castr in 2024 to manage and deliver live streams across its regional workflows.
The technical team creates dedicated channels for individual regions, stations, events, and always-on feeds. Each one is configured for what it actually is instead of being pushed into a single template, and all of them are managed from the same account.
Delivery stays flexible underneath: HLS output for websites and apps, adaptive bitrate for whatever connection a viewer arrives on, and simulcast destinations when coverage needs to travel beyond the station’s own channels.
The delivery layer behind those workflows provides:
HLS delivery for web and app playback
Adaptive bitrate streaming
Regional ingest options
Simulcast destination support
Event-specific stream setup
Always-on live stream workflows
Centralized stream management
Team access for shared operations
Running always-on public-interest streams
The clearest example is TV SYD’s Storkecam, a live camera on a stork nest in Smedager, Southern Jutland, running since 2014 in collaboration with Storkene.dk.
The camera runs 24 hours a day. TV SYD’s public-service reports logged 650,000 streaming minutes in 2020 and more than 37 million live viewing minutes in 2021, after a second angle let viewers switch between a wide view and a close-up of the nest. Schools, kindergartens, and care homes watched daily.
This is not event streaming. Nothing is scheduled, nothing ends, and the audience builds over years rather than hours.
Covering regional events as they happen
Alongside the always-on feeds, regional broadcasters constantly need to spin up dedicated streams for public events, local ceremonies, and one-time productions. That work often calls for simulcasting to several destinations, temporary event channels, or separate stream configurations depending on the audience and platform.
Those streams are prepared, monitored, and delivered from the same place, so the setup does not have to be rebuilt for each one. The same account covers stations including TV 2 Fyn, TV MIDTVEST, TV SYD, TV 2 Nord, and TV 2 Kosmopol.
Giving broadcast teams shared access
Running live streams across a regional broadcaster takes more than one person. The work spreads across stations, departments, and shifts, often with several people touching the same stream.
TV 2 Regionerne uses Castr Teams so multiple technical users work in the same account, each with their own login and responsibilities, instead of everyone sharing a single admin password. Anyone on the team can see what’s live and what’s coming next, which makes preparing the next broadcast easier.
The same setup, whichever region is streaming
What used to mean separate setups now runs as one operation, from always-on public-interest cameras to special-event broadcasts. Day to day, the team can:
Manage multiple regional livestreams from one platform
Run always-on live feeds like Storkecam
Deliver clean playback on any device with HLS and adaptive bitrate
Spin up event coverage for any station without rebuilding the setup each time
Simulcast event streams to external destinations when needed
Spend less time on stream setup and more on the coverage itself
Live video has become part of the regional toolkit rather than a project each station takes on separately.
The cameras stay on between the headlines
As regional media continues to expand beyond traditional broadcast windows, live streaming gives TV 2 Regionerne more ways to connect audiences with local stories as they happen.
Both sides of that work run on the same foundation: the steady everyday streams and the standout public-service moments that hold a region’s attention. Adding another camera or another event becomes a matter of setting it up, not of deciding how it will be delivered.
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