It’s known but not exactly well-documented in the press that broadcasters are moving away from the traditional buying model, where dedicated processing capacity is tied to specific pieces of hardware, towards software architectures where licenses and capacity can operate across commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) infrastructure. A fresh test case for this shift has arrived courtesy of TV news network CNBC and its technology supplier MediaKind. The UK arm of CNBC has tapped MediaKind’s Beam product, a software-define media processing platform designed to separate video processing software from the underlying servers on which it runs, to modernize its contribution and distribution infrastructure. CNBC UK’s news teams will use the system to move live news feeds between geographically distributed bureaus, studios, production environments…