Channel ONE™

Powerful Scheduling
The Channel ONE system’s powerful scheduling engine allows you to run your channel fully automated, or mix automated and external control. And you’ll feel secure running in an automated environment with the Channel ONE system’s server-grade motherboard, redundant power supplies, hot-swappable drives and optional video/audio bypass.

The schedule engine offers granular control of playback, making a wide range of channels possible. Each region can have independent or linked playlists, enabling data-rich info channels. Support sophisticated ad campaigns or diverse community needs with the ability to schedule individual videos and images to display at specific times of the day, on certain days of the week, within date ranges or when defined data values, such as temperatures or sports scores, are reached.

As Run Logging
Each region in Channel ONE can log playback. You can export the As Run logs for one or more items as a customer-ready report for billing or as a comma-delineated file for easy import into accounting and business systems.

Stunning Design Capabilities
Channel ONE provides unparalleled composition capabilities. Create a compelling on-air brand by quickly arranging multiple overlapping layers of design elements, including logos, charts, still images, analog and digital clocks, video clips, live video, animations, rolls and tickers. Cater broadcasts to specific audiences by creating custom content such as local news, community events, transit delays and advertising.

Real-Time Information
Keep viewers informed of breaking news, the latest sports scores, real-time stock information and weather updates with Channel ONE system’s sophisticated data integration. Channel ONE can broadcast multiple, live data feeds directly from various sources, including ODBC databases, RSS feeds, SMS messages, XML files and text files. Update time-sensitive data directly onscreen in tickers, tables and animations, or drive video clip and still image playlists directly from external data sources.

Pop-Back DVE
The Pop-Back DVE feature allows you to reposition and scale full-frame SDI input video, IP input streams or locally stored video clips. Show additional graphics and data without compromising your video content.

Connectus® Integration
Integrate with Connectus® for enhanced content and system management. Whether you need to manage a single community channel or an international network of channels, Connectus will streamline your workflow. Supporting multiple network architectures — including LAN, WAN and satellite — Connectus allows you to centrally store schedules and content for global distribution. Revision control, auto-archiving and file mirroring allow you to effectively manage and protect your content on the server. You can even retrieve and combine as run logs from multiple Channel ONE systems, making country-wide or even global advertising campaigns possible. Connectus also allows you to manage and distribute content for other Harris devices — such as IconStation™,  Icon Logo™, and the complete line of live broadcast character generators — increasing your ROI even further.

Connectus also makes managing a network of unmanned regional and cable head stations easier. Auto-generated e-mails warn technical staff of potential problems. Technical staff can monitor output and system health and perform basic trouble shooting from any Internet-connected location in the world. Powerful user rights management ensures personnel only have access to the appropriate systems and tasks.

*Note: Connectus Software must be purchased separately.

OPTIONS

Squeezeback DVE
Add elegance when you need to transition from full-screen video to a scaled or DVE video window. The Squeezeback option allows you to scale your video smoothly over a user-defined duration. Use this effect to reveal your already running graphics and data from under the full-screen video.

Clip Playback
Clip Playback allows playback of video clips in one or more regions. Choose from a wide range of video formats including QuickTime®, Flash®, AVI, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, WMV® and more. Channel ONE also has a built-in hardware codec, allowing you to play a full-screen HD video background without taxing system resources, such as memory or CPU.

Channel ONE Offline
With Channel ONE Offline, a standalone software package, operators can compose layouts on a computer running Windows® XP, and transfer their designs to an online graphics system for playout to air. A perfect complement to the Connectus graphics management system, Channel ONE Offline allows you to generate and schedule new content in an offline environment, and then use Connectus to publish it to remote player(s).

RTXports™ 
RTXports™ provides a simple and convenient interface with which to create customized interface controls to generate additional graphics through the Inscriber® RTX™ API. This option makes it easy to generate custom presentations — including sports scores, election returns, stock tickers and weather bulletins — and display them through Channel ONE. The RTXports option allows to you enhance your Channel ONE presenta-tion using purchased or custom-built plug-ins.