The present document describes the Single Illumination System, which allows to deliver Parent Signals for direct reception by consumer receivers and, at the same time, for a deterministic generation of daughter streams for terrestrial retransmission. Parent Signals can be provided to the daughter site via all defined TS-based DVB means - be it satellite, cable or terrestrial. Metadata may be provided as part of the Parent Signal(s) (called "in-band" in the present document). Part of the metadata may also be provided "out-of-band".