Exploring LinqTV Playout Drag and Drop Scheduler and EPG

FAST channels and Linear TV are gaining popularity as a huge portion of the audience is still TV-watching and is transitioning slowly to internet-based entertainment. The OTT and streaming industry is a tech-heavy industry that relies on technology to maximize its delivery to the audience and to deliver content seamlessly via FAST Channels and Linear TVs, LinqTV Playout is the best option available for you. In this blog, we will be learning more about Drag and Drop Schedule an Electronic Program Guide (EPG), which are two distinctive features that make TV broadcasting a delightful experience. Let’s see what are these and how they work.

LinqTV Playout’s drag-and-drop scheduler effortlessly creates program schedules by simply dragging and dropping content to the calendar or event timeline. It integrates complex workflows efficiently, eliminates the need to specify manual start and stop times and seamlessly integrates complex workflows. With a drag and drop scheduler, you can insert content into the linear stream and manage program gaps effortlessly. Here is how this is going to be a game-changer for your broadcasting needs.

Gaps can occur in any broadcasting and many times they are deliberately inserted to increase revenue via ads. LinqTV Playout’s dynamic gap management ensures that such gaps are handled efficiently via CMS and keeps instant room for future ads and content with instant deployment. With such efficient gap management, your content revenue will increase as no screen time is wasted even during live broadcasting.

Every primary programming has breaks and such breaks must be capitalized. Playout lets you add default filler content such as promos, advertisements, etc and thus maintains audience engagement and creates a uniform and consistent playback timeline.

Ads are a priority in any broadcasting setup and major revenue depends on the effectiveness of ad campaigns. LinqTV Playout’s drag-and-drop lets you seamlessly stitch ads to your programming directly from the CMS thus maintaining optimum revenue throughout the broadcasting.

Not all content is live. Some are recorded shows such as the latest episode of a TV series. For schedules that are pre decided, LinqTV Playout lets the admin schedule content effortlessly without any technical expertise. Anybody can do it with training and the user-friendly drag-and-drop reduces manual scheduling and the need to be present all the time.

Recurring events such as soap operas, daily news, etc can be scheduled to repeat on a daily, monthly, or weekly basis as per requirement. This reduces scheduling time and the team can focus more on the content rather than endless stitching of media.

Now that you know the immense capabilities of LinqTV Playout’s drag-and-drop scheduler, the next question is how one schedule content from the backend CMS. Here are a few easy steps that give you complete control over the drag-and-drop feature.

That is how you can run your broadcast seamlessly from your setup without