(a) Guide
Commercial TV for business premises
Showing television in a public or guest area is a commercial use, and it is licensed differently from the set in your living room.
Public showing is not residential viewing
Television shown in guest rooms, bars, waiting rooms, lobbies, gyms and break rooms is generally a commercial use that requires a commercial agreement. Running a consumer subscription in those spaces can put a business offside with programming terms, which is a risk that shows up at the worst possible moment.
Packages are scoped to the venue
What a bar needs is not what a clinic waiting room needs, and a motel's in-room line-up is different again. Programming is scoped by venue type, screen count and whether the viewing area is public or private, so the sensible starting point is a description of your rooms rather than a package name.
Plan screens with the cabling, not after it
- Screen count and locations agreed before cabling
- Distribution from a single rack rather than boxes behind every set
- Mounting and cable routes that survive cleaning and refurbishment
- Guest-room and public-area programming scoped separately
- Installed alongside internet and networking on one schedule
One agreement across services
Bringing commercial TV into the same agreement as internet, phone and networking keeps billing simple and, more usefully, means one team is responsible when a screen or a circuit needs attention — instead of three vendors pointing at each other.
Commercial service only · United States