British broadcaster Channel 4 is playing catch-up with the local streaming competition, executing a long-overdue upheaval of its OTT video infrastructure – switching out a swathe of in-house systems in place of new third-party platform-based technologies. This comes after Channel 4 reported a sizable revenue decline of over £120 million ($156 million) in 2023, triggering the company’s largest round of lay-offs in 15 years. The latest strategic overhaul and move away from running in-house infrastructure (potentially even migrating to a managed services model) implies that further jobs cuts are to be expected at the publicly owned (but not publicly funded) broadcaster. Details have emerged of Channel 4’s mission at the recent IBC 2024, to locate suppliers capable of alleviating the…