Broadcast Scheduling Software for Linear TV and Cable
BroadView’s single-asset approach provides powerful metadata for all your scheduling needs
BroadView’s broadcast scheduling software gives broadcasters a single, integrated platform for linear scheduling, rights management, EPG listings, and programming analytics. Built on a centralized asset library, every module shares the same metadata — eliminating duplication and keeping your operations efficient across all channels.
At the core of BroadView is a centralized asset library that houses all metadata and tracking needs. Within this library, a single asset can provide the required information for linear schedules, EPG, OnDemand, media operations, traffic, and sales. The asset library is completely extensible and can support the addition of any number of user or system-defined fields. All fields can be controlled via security and are searchable, filterable, editable, reportable, and exportable. Like every other field in BroadView, asset fields can be used by all other modules, from linear scheduling to OnDemand and all media operations.
Broadcast Scheduling and Programming Workflow
Rights Management
BroadView provides strong rights management tools to ensure that your content obligations are being met. These help manage, validate and enforce rights across your linear channels from individual station rights to sharing station rights or complex multi-network, country, and territory rights. In the world of On-Demand and cross-platform content, Platform Rights provide the tools to track and record OnDemand commitments on a platform-by-platform basis as well as providing validation and feedback. BroadView allows for all-encompassing OnDemand schedules to be individually managed and controlled against the breadth of platforms they distribute to.
Linear Scheduling Across Channels, Regions and Time Zones
BroadView can create schedules for a single station to a network of any number of channels, regions and time zones where schedules flow seamlessly from one to another. It can manage unlimited planning channels and alternate channels for sporting and live event contingencies. Extensive validation tools and email notifications advise users of changes and issues before the schedule gets to downstream departments. Version control, live, record and “joined in progress” flags ensure that the correct version is running on the right network or platform. Learn more about OnDemand.
EPG / Listing Management
BroadView has collaborated with Gracenote to provide an API-based transfer of your program metadata and schedules to their listings services. Integration is also available for TiVo, FYI, EBS and other listing services. BroadView supports the industry standard EIDR identification. We also facilitate database access to pull your own information to support all your website and data needs.
Data Analytics
BroadView’s analysis tools, with powerful cross-filtering functionality, summarize your OnDemand schedule information and answer common questions at a glance. It will help you under- stand the complex relationships between your linear schedules, OnDemand Schedules, Offers, and Platforms It is always up to date, makes it easy to collaborate, and lets you zoom in when you need a closer look. It is available from within the BroadView application or any web browser.
Programming
Create and manage your Deals in our Programming module, where program costing and amortization are tracked. Create Series, and Program Items and schedule them out with as little or as much information as you have. Add formats and rotations for your sales team to begin selling the inventory. Update program and episodic descriptions to output to listing clients, or export directly to your website. Changes in the schedule are live and update the log, so Traffic users are able to manage the spots on the fly; there is no delay for traffic users to take action on spots booked into old rotations. Automatically generate new grids for both internal and external distribution with new program or episodic updates.
CRTC
BroadView keeps up-to-date with changing CRTC regulations for both conventional and specialty to ensure that broadcaster’s submitted reports match the current CRTC codes.
Metadata
Track unlimited metadata fields about your entire content library. Fields include: titles and synopsis (in multiple languages), genres, attributes, production year, supplier, box office take, as well as media characteristics like: video status, audio status, 4k status, cue sheet details, closed captioning, described video, SAP and many more. Need more? Only BroadView allows users to add their own fields (strings, dates, financials, checkboxes, etc.). These become completely searchable and reportable as if they were part of the original application. As content recommendations and searchability grow in importance, having unlimited and accurate metadata becomes critical.
What Broadcast Scheduling Software Does
Broadcast scheduling software is the system of record for what airs, when, and on which channel. It holds the programme rights that determine what may be scheduled, builds the linear schedule across channels and time zones, publishes listings data to EPG providers, and passes the finished schedule downstream so that commercial inventory and delivery can be managed against it. In BroadView, all of that runs on one centralized asset library rather than a chain of separate tools, so a change made once is reflected everywhere it matters.
From Schedule to Air: Playout, Traffic and Listings Handoff
A schedule is only useful once the rest of the operation can act on it. Changes made in the BroadView schedule are live and update the log directly, so Traffic users can manage spots on the fly with no waiting period between departments. Programme metadata and schedules transfer to Gracenote through an API-based integration, with support also available for TiVo, FYI, EBS and other listing services, and BroadView supports the industry-standard EIDR identifier. Database access is available to pull your own information for website and data needs. BroadView interfaces with most of the playout automation systems currently in the market, so the approved schedule and its log can be delivered into the playout environment you already run rather than requiring you to change it.
Schedule Validation and Conflict Prevention
Most scheduling errors are cheapest to catch before a schedule leaves the programming department. BroadView applies extensive validation tools and email notifications that advise users of changes and issues before the schedule reaches downstream departments. Rights are managed, validated and enforced across linear channels — from individual station rights through to complex multi-network, country and territory arrangements — while version control and live, record and “joined in progress” flags ensure the correct version runs on the right network or platform. Unlimited planning channels and alternate channels cover sporting and live event contingencies.
Why Choose BroadView Broadcast Programming Software
BroadView’s broadcast programming software integrates seamlessly with BroadView Traffic and BroadView Sales for a unified workflow. See us at NAB Show and IBC to learn more, or contact us for a demo.