A system that provides the ability to monitor, capture and recreate states of media consumption (e.g., channel, timing) is provided. More specifically, the innovation provides for the ability to identify a context in which a plurality of components collaboratively participate in decisions of transferring a media. In accordance with the context, the innovation can save current states of a `session` (e.g., Internet television, radio, instant messaging conversation) thereafter being able to recover the state of the session on other devices that are connected to the same context as the original device. Accordingly, the session (e.g., media consumption) can be continued via an alternative device. In other aspects, for example where the session represents live media, a recorder can be employed to store (e.g., cache, buffer) the media for later broadcast in accordance with the continuity service.