Mediagenix FAST-Linear Scheduling

Designed to help channel operators ensure business agility, with changing demand & new competition, by providing a path to quickly launch new FAST & linear channels in new markets for new audiences, our core platform includes a multi-user integrated broadcast management framework, with role-based user access to long-term scheduling for multiple linear channels, series, episodes & repeat scheduling and season copying with business rule verification, continuity schedules/logs including time codes, secondary events & transitions, and automated schedule retiming & secondary event verification.

Additional features included material/media readiness verification, export of continuity schedule/playlist/log to playout, and import reports from as-run with standard BXF playlists, promo & interstitial management, with automatic adjustments to schedule updates, automated bumper scheduling with copy rotation based on branding rules & sponsor contracts, commercial spot scheduling from airtime sales system imports, and music management, including music clip scheduling, playlist management & import from music scheduling systems.

Also includes contract & rights management to manage & verify complex license rights, multi-currency costs, amortizations & payment schedules, and verification of clearance before schedule transmission, media management from external systems & locations, traffic & material handling, compliance management with configurable parental ratings for each regulator, decision process for ratings, and scene/fragments that underlie the ratings determination, reporting in XML-based environment with standard & customizable reports and APIs for file-based import, linear scheduling, contract & rights, media management, as-run logs, commercial integration and a REST API for read-only exchange of metadata for third-party systems.