A non-European case study presented itself at one of Europe’s biggest broadcast events, as TV New Zealand revealed its disdain for the managed services model. TVNZ is now in year three of a five-year transformation designed to turn the organization into a digital broadcaster, and one of the more striking parts of that transformation has been the decision to replace a stack of six technology vendors with cloud-based streaming platform Quickplay. That is a brutal rejection of the way broadcasters have been assembled streaming platforms – a collection of specialist products, glued together through integration work, with managed services providers sitting in the middle to keep the whole thing ticking along. It is never truly a one-vendor show, of course. AWS remains the underlying cloud platform,…