[badmash69]

I want to make the user experience seamless " if a user is interested in 3 items -- I don't want him jump from clip to clip; instead I want a seamless newscast with just his/her items , while giving him or her the option of going deeper.

The second reason is controlling the exposure to ad. The idea is that we not to force the viewer to view an ad unless we know that he or she has consumed more than X second of news videos.

As far as the CDN bucket goes -- the broadcaster owns the bucket. I have them set up their buckets ( for which Amazon bills them). My application just needs access rights to that bucket.

Also, I expect TV stations would be flexible in content management as news is a fungible and highly perishable commodity ( 5 pm news is stale by the time is 11 pm ). Also, unlike entertainment content ( sitcoms etc.) , Local TV stations produce their own news content; so they less encumbered by third party copyright issues.

[mjs00]

Understand your desire around consumer experience, but you really need to engage now with a few stations to vet your assumptions.