Playout needs a room and a minder
The overnight loop runs on a machine in a back room, and when it stalls at two in the morning somebody drives in to restart it.
07/ 08SEE IT END TO END
ON AIRBROADCASTERS
Take your linear channel online without rebuilding the station: a playlist that runs all night, a guide on your own clock, breaks you can sell, a ticker your desk can feed, and your radio station on the same site as the picture.
- 24/7 playout from a playlist
- 4 guide day-parts
- 3 ad-break slots
- LIVE only when it’s on air
02/ 08YOUR WORLD TODAY
The guide is a document
Every week somebody retypes the schedule into a web page, and it’s wrong the moment a programme moves or a special is added.
The radio station lives next door
Your sister station has its own player on its own website, so the people listening in the car never meet the people watching at home.
The online audience earns nothing
Sponsors buy the broadcast. The stream has no breaks to sell and no report that shows how many people watched on a TV.
03/ 08WHAT CHANGES
- 01A playout machine somebody restarts in the middle of the night.A playlist channel with Start, Stop, Skip and Re-sync beside a live preview — and playlist edits that reach the running channel without dropping a viewer.
- 02A weekly schedule retyped into a web page by hand.A week-at-a-time guide in Morning, Afternoon, Evening and Late Night on your own clock, with recurring programmes entered once and every live event mirrored in.
- 03A sister radio station with its own player on its own website.Stations with now-playing, recent tracks and listener counts in a mini-player that keeps going between pages — and attachable to any live event as companion audio.
- 04An online stream with nothing to sell.Breaks before, during and after playback that subscribers on an ad-free plan never see, and eight website banner placements.
- 05A news crawl rebuilt by hand before every bulletin.A site-wide ticker fed by typed lines, your newsroom’s feeds and your own schedule — with a breaking-alert band whose items expire on time.
04/ 08WHAT YOU SWITCH ON
Switch a module off and its public page, navigation link and app tab leave together — so the site carries what you broadcast and nothing else.
Live TV channelsA cable-style line-up with category tabs and free or paid badges, plus a homepage slot that autoplays the channel you choose.
24/7 playoutChannels built from recorded programmes — drag to reorder, loop, auto-start — that run without anybody watching them.
Programme guideA week at a time with a day rail, a live-now banner with a Watch button, and every live event mirrored in.
RadioStations with now-playing, recent tracks, listener counts and live-presenter status, behind a player that survives page changes.
TickerA scrolling line, a breaking-alert band, and your station logo and clock, pinned to the top or bottom of every page.
Live EventsSpecials, election nights and local sport as scheduled pages, with a replay that publishes itself when the broadcast ends.
On-demandLast night’s bulletin and the archive behind it, with a rail of 12 recommendations on every watch page.
Shows & seriesYour magazine programmes as seasons and episodes, with Up Next and a Duplicate button for the weekly edition.
PublishingThe newsroom’s web stories beside the video, with a related-content block that points readers at the broadcast.
StoreLeave offLeave it off until you have merchandise to sell — then it’s one toggle, on the same site as the channel.
Teams & athletesLeave offOpt-in. Only worth switching on if you carry local sport and want a page per team.
Phone-number sign-in add-onLeave offFor markets where your viewers have a mobile number but no email address.
05/ 08A DAY ON AIR
One weekday at a regional station: a 24/7 channel that ran all night, a live special at seven, and a feed that drops at the worst moment.
- Monday · 06:00
The overnight loop hands over
The 24/7 channel has run its playlist all night with nobody in the building. The morning producer opens Playouts and drags the weekend highlights to the top, and the running channel picks up the change without a restart.
- Monday · 09:30
The week’s guide is already done
The breakfast show, the noon bulletin and the Thursday magazine were entered once as weekly slots. Tonight’s council special appeared under Evening the moment it was created as an event.
- Monday · 12:00
The ticker takes the noon news
Headlines from the newsroom’s feed scroll across every page beside lines the desk typed in. A road-closure alert is set to expire at six, so nobody has to remember to pull it.
- Monday · 17:30
The breaks are sold
The sales team sets the evening sponsor’s pre-roll with a skip countdown and times a mid-roll in minutes for the live special. Viewers on the ad-free plan will see neither.
- Monday · 19:00
The special goes live
The studio pushes from vMix. The companion channel takes the event’s picture, artwork and paywall, and the line-up shows LIVE because something is genuinely on air. The radio station rides along as companion audio for listeners in the car.
- Monday · 20:47
A feed drops
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 reseats a cable, and the badge comes back with the picture.
- Monday · 22:30
The special becomes the archive
The event ends and the companion channel reverts to its off-air slate. The drop split the recording into two takes, so it publishes as one replay — Part 1 and Part 2. The 24/7 channel is still running the evening loop.
06/ 08THE NUMBERS THAT MATTER
0programme-guide day-parts, on your own clock
0video ad-break slots — before, during and after
0ticker settings, from scroll speed to station logo
5smonitoring refresh across every feed and channel
THE TALLY LIGHT IS RED
See playout, the programme guide and the channel line-up running on a call — with your own schedule in the grid.
A 30-minute walkthrough of the live product — no slides.