Automated broadcast playout, without enterprise complexity.
Plan your channel, automate your schedule and stay on air with Telvi Server and Telvi Player. Built for local broadcasters, community TV and production teams that run a full channel with a small crew.
Most local and regional channels are run by a small team. Telvi takes over the repetitive work of scheduling and playout, so your people can spend their time on programming.
01
Build tomorrow's schedule today
Generate playlists up to 30 days ahead from reusable formats, check them, and let Telvi take it from there.
Format Editor · Playlist builder02
Keep broadcasting when nobody is in the control room
Telvi Player follows the playlist to the second, through the night and the weekend, without anyone at the desk.
Telvi Player03
Change what's next without touching what's on air
Update today's playlist during the broadcast. The player picks up the new schedule while the current item keeps playing.
Live playlist updates04
Recurring programming in minutes, not hours
Describe a typical day once as rules. Telvi picks the right episodes, promos and fillers every time you generate.
Selection rules · Automation grid05
No black screen when something goes wrong
An emergency playlist takes over when normal programming isn't available, and a backup Player can take over when a machine fails.
Emergency playlist06
Automation that makes room for live
Mark live segments with user cues. Your operator ends them with one button, exactly when the studio is ready.
User cues · Cue Clock
How it works
From media to on air in four steps.
You don't need to read the manual to understand Telvi. This is the whole idea, shown in the real interface.
01Prepare media
Import videos, add websites and livestreams, organise them into groups.
For a broadcaster, a black screen is the one thing that can't happen. Telvi is designed around that, from the way it prepares transitions to the way it saves a playlist.
Programme output · always something on airPlaylistEmergency playlistOverride
City Update Follow
Weather
Emergency loop no playlist
Harbour Talk
Override
Music
18:0018:3019:0019:3020:00
Nothing scheduled? The emergency playlist loops until the normal playlist can take over again.Breaking news? Force one item on air immediately with an emergency override.Back to normal automatically, at the right point in the schedule.
Fallback
Emergency playlist
A looping fallback playlist takes over automatically when there's nothing scheduled or the normal playlist can't be used.
Manual takeover
Emergency override
Put one item on air instantly: play it once, loop it until you stop it, or keep it on until a set time.
The next item is prepared on a second, hidden player. Telvi only switches when that picture is ready.
Hot reload
Live playlist updates
Edit or regenerate today's playlist during the broadcast. The player loads it without interrupting what's on air.
Safe writes
Never a half-saved file
Playlists and media data are written atomically, so a player always reads either the old or the new version.
Offline tolerant
Keeps playing without internet
Playout never depends on your connection. After a long outage only configuration changes pause until the licence check succeeds.
Failover
Automatic failover to a backup Player.
Put a second Telvi Player on the same schedule, behind your video switcher. Telvi watches every Player in two independent ways and switches the transmission when one fails.
Heartbeat: the server notices within seconds when a Player stops responding.
Telvi SilDe watches what actually goes out, for black, silence, freeze or a lost signal.
Hold time, so a brief glitch never moves the transmission.
Switch back automatically once the original Player has recovered, if you want to.
Works with Blackmagic ATEM, vMix, Kramer and Extron, or any switcher that accepts TCP or HTTP commands. The failover plan is shown in advance, so you know what Telvi will do before it ever has to.
telvi-server:7269/patch
telvi-server:7269/emergency
A hard cut when you need one.
Emergency override is deliberately simple: pick the item, pick when it should stop, press the button. The player cuts to it immediately and returns to the live schedule on its own.
Play once, then continue with the schedule.
Loop until you turn it off, for a stream or a holding slide.
Until a set time, then back to the schedule automatically.
Integrate
Fits the way your station already works.
Telvi runs on your own machines and storage, talks to the rest of your gear through scripts, and grows from one Player to four.
Scripting
Trigger your gear from the schedule
Run a Windows script when an item starts or ends: cut the vision mixer to the studio, start a recorder, recall a lighting preset.
Branding
Station bug, per item
Upload a transparent PNG, place it once, and hide it automatically for commercials or full-screen graphics.
Media types
More than video
Schedule websites and livestreams next to your videos.
Text TV and news tickers
HLS livestreams
Video in the house format
Storage
Your media, your storage
Everything lives on the Telvi Drive: a folder on a local disk or a NAS. Telvi Importer brings new files onto the drive and into the library.
Team
Users and rights
Give every colleague an account, with rights per user and a choice of login methods. The interface is available in English and Dutch.
Scale
Up to four Players, up to 4K
Run a main and a backup Player on the same schedule, or feed extra outputs. Each Telvi Player licence can run on its own machine or share one.
Connect
REST API Coming soon
Connect Telvi to your website, programme guide or your own automation. Included with Telvi Four.
Architecture
How a Telvi installation fits together.
Everything runs on-premises, on standard Windows machines. One installation runs one TV channel, with up to four Players on the same schedule.
Any browser
Your team
Plan, schedule and monitor from any PC on the network.
Management PC
Telvi Server
Media library, formats, playlists, users, Cue Clock.
Ingest
Telvi Importer
Brings new media into the Telvi Drive.
Shared storage · local disk or NAS
Telvi Drive
Media, formats, playlists, scripts, logs and configuration in one place that every Telvi machine can reach.
Telvi Player 1 MAIN
IN 1
Telvi Player 2 BACKUP
IN 2
Telvi Player 3 OPTIONAL
IN 3
Telvi Player 4 OPTIONAL
IN 4
Video switcherTransmission
PGM
SilDe watches the output: black · silence · freeze
Output through the graphics card (HDMI / DisplayPort)Network wired gigabit, 10 GbE for several 4K PlayersOS Windows 10 or 11, 64-bitSystem requirements →
Pricing
Start with the capacity your channel needs.
Scale up as your operation grows. Every tier includes the scheduling and playout engine. Higher tiers add Players, capacity, 4K output and integrations, and each card lists exactly what's included.
Several TV channels, more than four Players, or a special setup? Each TV channel is its own Telvi installation, and we'll size the licences to your station.
Prices in EUR, per month or per year (two months free). Licences can run on one machine or on separate machines. One installation runs one TV channel. Evental Media uses the Dutch small business scheme (KOR), so no VAT is charged. See the terms and conditions.
Hardware
Runs on standard Windows broadcast hardware.
Telvi Server is lightweight. Player requirements scale with your output resolution and media formats, so you only invest where the picture needs it.
No. Telvi runs on standard Windows 10 or 11 PCs. Telvi Player outputs through the graphics card, in HD or up to 4K UHD depending on your tier. See the system requirements.
Where are my media and schedules stored?
On your own storage. Media, formats, playlists and configuration live on the Telvi Drive: a folder on a local disk or a NAS that your Telvi machines share. Nothing is hosted in the cloud.
What happens if our internet connection goes down?
Playout continues. Telvi checks its licence online, but a broadcast never stops because a licence server can't be reached. After a long outage only configuration changes are paused until the check succeeds again.
Can we combine automation with live programmes?
Yes. Use user cues in your format for live segments. The Cue Clock shows what's on and what's next, and the operator ends a live segment with a single NEXT CUE. For breaking news there's the emergency override.
Can Telvi run several TV channels?
One Telvi installation runs one channel, with up to four Players on the same schedule, for example a main and a backup output. For several different TV channels you set up one installation per channel, and we'll help you size the licences.
Can I see Telvi before I buy?
Of course. Book a demo and we'll walk through your channel, your formats and your hardware, with Telvi running live.
Is VAT charged?
Evental Media uses the Dutch small business scheme (KOR), so no VAT is charged on our invoices. The prices you see are the prices you pay.
Book a demo
See Telvi on your own schedule.
A personal demo, online or on location. We look at your channel together and show you Telvi running live.
01Your channel, your formats and your programming
02Which tier and which hardware fit your station
03Migration from your current playout
Sarah Bakkers
Owner & developer of Telvi
You talk directly to the person who builds Telvi, so your questions get real answers and your ideas end up in the product.
