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A 24/7 channel from a playlist
Recorded programmes dragged into order, looped and auto-started, with Start, Stop, Skip and Re-sync. Playlist edits reach the running channel without a restart.
SCENARIOILLUSTRATIVE SCENARIO
How a community television station with a sister radio station could move its linear channel online and run a live special beside it — told through one election night. A composite built from product facts, not a named customer.
The product fact that carries it
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video ad-break slots — before, during and after
An illustrative scenario: a composite of how an organisation like this runs on MediaCore2, built only from what the product does. No customer is named and no result is quoted without written permission.
02/ 06WHO THEY ARE
A community television station serving one county: a daily news bulletin, a weekly magazine programme, council meetings, local sport on Friday nights, and a sister radio station down the corridor. A small full-time staff runs the channel, and volunteers fill the gaps.
What they stop needing
- A playout machine in a back room, and the phone call when it stalls overnight
- A weekly schedule retyped into a web page by hand
- A separate website and player for the radio station
- A news crawl rebuilt in the graphics system before every bulletin
- An online stream with no breaks to sell
03/ 06WHAT THEY BUILT
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A guide on the station’s clock
A week at a time in Morning, Afternoon, Evening and Late Night. Regular programmes are weekly slots entered once; every live event mirrors in and stays in sync.
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A channel line-up
An artwork grid with category tabs, free and paid badges naming the plan, and a LIVE badge that appears only when something is really on air.
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Breaks they can sell
Pre-roll, mid-roll and post-roll with skip countdowns that subscribers on the ad-free plan never see, and website banner placements for local sponsors.
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The radio station, on the same site
Now-playing, recent tracks, listener counts and a mini-player that keeps going between pages — and the station attached to any event as companion audio.
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A ticker that reads like a newsroom
Typed lines, the newsroom’s feeds and the station’s own schedule in one scrolling line, a breaking-alert band that expires on time, and the station logo and clock.
04/ 06THE NIGHT IT MATTERED
- Tuesday · 09:00
The programme director creates “Election Night Live” for 19:00. A homepage hero banner and a guide slot publish with it, and in the guide it sits under Evening beside the station’s regular weekly programmes.
- Tuesday · 16:00
The newsroom sets a breaking alert — polls close at eight — to expire on its own when they do, and adds typed ticker lines the desk will update as each ward declares.
- Tuesday · 18:30
On the 24/7 channel, the producer drags the candidate profiles to the top of tonight’s playlist. The running channel picks up the change without a restart, so nobody watching is dropped.
- Tuesday · 19:00
The studio pushes from vMix. The companion channel takes the picture, artwork and access from the event, and the line-up shows LIVE because something genuinely is. The radio station rides along as companion audio for listeners in the car.
- Tuesday · 21:12
The studio encoder loses its connection. Staff get a notification naming the channel and telling them to check the encoder, and the line-up stops calling the channel LIVE while nothing is on air. The engineer is at the rack before the first viewer thinks to phone in.
- Tuesday · 21:30
Coverage is back, and so is the LIVE badge. The sponsor’s mid-roll runs at the minute mark the sales team set for the live stream; viewers on the ad-free plan never see it.
- Wednesday · 00:15
The last ward declares and the event ends. The companion channel reverts to its slate, the recording — two takes, because of the drop — publishes as one replay with Part 1 and Part 2, and the 24/7 channel is still running the overnight loop.
05/ 06WHAT CHANGED
- The channel runs overnight from a playlist, and a playlist change never restarts it.
- The guide can’t disagree with the schedule — live events mirror into it and stay in sync.
- LIVE shows only when something is on air, and a dropped channel reaches staff as a notification before it reaches them as a complaint.
- Radio listeners and video viewers follow the same coverage on the same site.
- Subscribers on an ad-free plan see no video breaks, with nothing to set per video.
THE TALLY LIGHT IS RED
Walk through playout, the programme guide, the line-up and your radio station on a call — built around your own schedule.
A 30-minute walkthrough of the live product — no slides.