MANAGING PROGRAM ACQUISITIONS, SCHEDULING AND RIGHTS
Why WideOrbit:
- Access to any related programming data
- Scheduling across all markets, time-zones and time-offsets
- Corporate and local market financial reporting
- Business-rule configured workflow and security
- Modular design for easy expansion
- Integration to WO Traffic and other programming areas
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The industry’s newest, most comprehensive solution for managing program acquisitions, rights, scheduling and finance
Program acquisition and production represent some of the highest expenses in your media operation. You manage a complex schedule of series, seasons, episodes, movies, features and local content across multiple markets, with all the associated rights and costs. To improve efficiency in your operation as well as profitability, you need to understand your return on investment and have the ability to tightly manage costs against revenue.
Manage all program content from one location
WO Program is the only solution on the market today that allows you to manage all acquired and produced program content. It allows for true network and syndicated schedule management with enough flexibility for both corporate and local market needs. In addition, it is fully integrated with WO Traffic—the media industry’s most advanced traffic, revenue and billing software—so that format, media and segment information is entered just once and maintained automatically to improve accuracy and efficiency.
Dramatically improve operations and the bottom line
- Maximize efficiency with centralized scheduling tools
- Improve corporate and local market knowledge of rights and financial implications of all schedules
- Optimize return on investment by analyzing costs and revenues
- Reduce or eliminate manual touch-points with integrated options for in-house or third-party systems
- Improve workflow between departments for all program-related activities
- Improve communication with network schedule providers and syndicators
Click below to learn more about WO Program:
- Program management
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- Manage all rights, license windows and financial amortization and liabilities for any market or station combination
- Enter data once and enable immediate sharing by all relevant markets
- Use automated tools to speed data entry and make changes at the touch of a button
- Communicate immediately with all departments regarding program acquisitions and changes including their cost impact
- Configure system features and corporate and local workflows to fit your business
- Ensure compliance of contracts, scheduling and financial data
- Optionally work with asset management and playout solutions for managing content ingest and purging
- Scheduling
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- Use drag-and-drop tools for scheduling your networks across affiliates, for syndicated content across all markets and for your local market
- Schedule according to date-based, pattern or run-order management
- Schedule views for any time period for any combination of channels
- Revenue management and reporting
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- View and analyze full amortization and payment schedules at the corporate and local market levels
- Easily access all contractual or other documents on your corporate network via document management links
- Customize viewing options through configurable templates that also include print and export options
- Embed thumbnails of all content, distributors, users and corporate and station logos to personalize the system
- Use flexible reporting tools to meet all corporate and local station departmental requirements
- Ensure compliance of contracts, scheduling and financial data
- Integrations
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- Fully integrated with WO Traffic
- Optional integration for web sites, listings services, press, media asset management, finance systems and other channel management options
- Integrate optional report writing tools such as Stylus Studio® 2011, LiquidXML or XMLSpy
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We’d love to show you how WideOrbit can improve your business dramatically!