KVH Launches New Content Delivery Service for Crew Wellbeing

KVH Industries, Inc. has launched a new digital content service called KVH Link, which addresses the need to provide news and entertainment for the crew and the operations data service required to optimize vessel performance.

For crew wellbeing, KVH Link provides popular news, sports, movies, TV, music, karaoke, podcasts, documentaries, trending social videos, and more in a sleek new user interface designed with digital natives in mind.

“There is an increasing focus on seafarer wellbeing as the foundation of safe, efficient operations,” said Mark Woodhead, KVH’s executive vice president for mobile connectivity. “With our decades of experience in providing crew content - starting in the 1960s with reel-to-reel movie nights on the deck of a ship - to our history of mobile tech innovation, KVH is uniquely suited to deliver a digital content platform for today’s seafarer.”

KVH Link's content includes hundreds of daily news stories, clips, and shows in the most popular languages among seafarers; sports news and video sports highlights from teams around the world, sports talk shows, and documentaries; early release movies and classics from Hollywood to Bollywood and independent studios; full seasons of popular hit television series; and more than 15 genres of music radio, podcasts, karaoke, and more. KVH Link content is licensed from copyright holders for crew viewing.

Accessible for group viewing on a vessel TV screen or on seafarers’ personal devices, KVH Link is accessible for group viewing on a vessel TV screen or on seafarers' own devices. It is available as a monthly content subscription package, with no data delivery charge.

In developing KVH Link, KVH built on its experience with the IP-MobileCast content delivery service it introduced in 2014, which features patented technology for delivering cybersecure, encrypted multimedia content to vessels with mini-VSAT Broadband connectivity.

For vessels without mini-VSAT Broadband, KVH has announced a new entertainment content service that provides media on secure, encrypted drives. “Today, all vessels in a fleet need news and entertainment content even when several different satellite connectivity vendors are involved,” said Woodhead. “With KVH Link and linkHUB, we can deliver terrific content to every vessel in the fleet.”

KVH Link also encompasses operations data services delivered by IP-MobileCast to address the need to optimize vessel performance. The KVH Link operations solutions include fast, secure delivery of ECDIS-compliant chartsets; high-resolution, global-scale weather forecasts delivered four times per day; and delivery of customer-generated content to promote crew safety and corporate values.

This coverage is sponsored by KVH.