Playout automation
Your channel, on the air, without a babysitter.
Schedule once and let Cablecast run it: file-based playout, live switching, graphics and a community bulletin board, all from Cablecast VIO servers built for the job.
What it does
One schedule, played to air, automatically.
Build your schedule once. Cablecast plays it to air with multi-channel support, redundancy and real-time monitoring, so the channel keeps running whether or not anyone’s in the building.
VIO playout servers
Lite through OMNI, sized to your channel, HD/SDI and NDI out, with unlimited network sources.
Scheduling & automation
Build days or weeks at a time; reconcile as-run logs automatically.
Bulletin board & CG
On-brand announcements that fill your schedule without anyone lifting a finger.
In one box
All-in-one channel playout.
Everything you need to run a channel ships inside a single VIO server, with no rack of extra boxes to wire together and keep in sync.
- Wide-ranging codec support. Upload and play virtually any format, with no transcoding step.
- On-board stream encoder. Capture live and on-demand video with built-in network encoding.
- Channel bug & crawl. Brand every channel with customizable on-screen graphics and crawls.
- Reporting & audience measurement. Generate reports and measure engagement across your platforms.
Work anywhere
An on-premise system you can run from anywhere.
Live switching, scheduling, streaming, uploading, monitoring, trimming, chaptering, branding, building playlists. Do it all from any device, in any location. Your system lives on-premise; your team doesn’t have to.
- Switch from anywhere. Take live sources, cut between them and cue up bulletin board content from any device with a connection.
- Schedule remotely. Build and adjust the schedule, upload files and reorder the playlist without setting foot in the building.
- Monitor in real time. Check as-run logs, confirm the channel is on air and catch problems before viewers do.
- Brand on the go. Trim, chapter and update on-screen graphics and crawls from wherever you are.
Bulletin board
Dynamic graphic announcements.
Cablecast CG turns dead airtime into a clean, on-brand community channel: multi-zone announcements for text, images and video that fill program gaps full screen, or wrap your live playout as an L-bar.
- Multi-zone signage. Text, image and video announcements share the screen, full-screen or as an L-bar around live playout.
- Always-current feeds. Pull in weather, traffic, RSS, iCal and social feeds automatically.
- Schedule-aware. Show a live program schedule, plus “Coming Up Next” and “You Were Just Watching.”
- Designed out of the box. Free prebuilt channel designs, or our team can brand a custom one for you.
- No extra hardware. Runs right on your VIO automation server, no dedicated bulletin-board player.
Cloud storage
Never run out of space, and never lose the record.
Cablecast Cloud Storage adds flexible, scalable off-premise storage to your automation server, managed by the Smart Asset Manager (SAM), so your library can keep growing and your content stays safe.
- Room to grow. Cloud-based media storage that scales with your library, no more running out of space.
- Automated backups. Set simple backup rules in Smart Asset Manager and your content is copied safely off-premise.
- Built into your workflow. Works with the Cablecast Smart Asset Manager on your VIO automation server.
Capability
Auto Schedule
Fill recurring slots automatically with rules that build, record, and update show records
Capability
Virtual Control Rooms
Custom control setups that cut clutter and human error from live event production
Capability
Squeezebacks
Frame your live channel playout inside an L-bar bulletin board layout
Watch
See Cablecast in action.
A quick look at how community stations run their channels on Cablecast.
Customer stories
Stations already doing this.
“A game-changer for us was the ability to post emergency notices from wherever we have electricity and internet, even cellular data if our link is down. People in the community really sat up and took notice; there was nowhere else they could get information that quickly. It made Falmouth Community Television instantly more vital to the community.”
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