SMS Terminal program module
SMS Terminal program module designed for broadcast automation is equipped with most demanded today’s services, such as:
- Broadcasting text and multimedia (graphic) messages, organizing the moderation of incoming messages;
- Vote holding by utilizing pre-programmed templates with variable number of answer choices, including result representation scale and telephone vote equipment connection feature;
- Automatic clip rotation via vote. Clip playback starts based on majority of its votes;
- Automatic news blocks output from RSS feeds;
- Organization of titling “on the fly” during news blocks production and organization of live broadcasts from studio;
- Output of announces and crawls.
SMS Terminal application can work both by interacting with the scheduled clips playout process in TELE 2.2 Info, and stand-alone. The program features a large number of parameters, which allow flexible system setup according to specific studio requirements, broadcast design style and various combinations of services.
SMS Terminal comes with additional utilities for calls and SMS-messages reception, i.e. via the Internet.
SMS and MMS
SMS Terminal presents rich potentials for SMS chat organization. The source for messages inflow may be a site on provider's page or a regular GSM phone connected to a computer. In case of integration with other existing source a message recognition from files mode is provided.
All incoming text messages are put in queue for broadcast and are shown in moderation window. The moderator has an opportunity to select the messages, which are going to be broadcasted. Broadcast of new messages is conducted with adjustable interval.
Multimedia graphic (MMS) messages allow receiving and broadcasting messages with graphic data, such as an avatar or a photo of an author of the message.
Announce and Crawl
“Announce and Crawl” services allow to broadcast prepared text messages over a graphic background or to output completely graphical announces. Messages change in turns according to set interval. An example for use of announce service can be a display of voting rules or additional information about SMS chat, broadcasting of program schedule and advertising information. Crawl serves for non-recurrent output of operational information.
Vote
“Vote” service allows to hold voting via SMS and over a telephone (with additional equipment). Voting can be held with exchangeable number of answer variants and has flexible settings, which allow to configure the color scheme for objects of the “gauge” results scale display. There is an option to hold voting till the maximum vote number is gathered, and a demo mode, which emulates the voting in accordance with set values for each variant. For integration with third-party vote counting systems an option for reading the vote results from external file or webpage is provided.
Live
“Live” service is a powerful tool for organization of titling “on the fly” when there's no possibility to add titles beforehand and the program is broadcasted with unprocessed material or on-air. Titles comply with standard design for broadcasts of such kind and consist of "event/broadcast location", "time", "name of person", "job title" and "additional information". Different combinations of fields output are provided, output is performed by the list with only one key stroke. It is possible to edit the list during its output. Removal of fields from screen is also done with one key stroke, which makes work with this service fast and comfortable. To simplify the consequent work with “Live” service, each edited field has customized user dictionaries, which allow to save frequently used initials, job titles, event locations and use them again.
News
"News" service serves for representation of Internet RSS feeds from selected website addresses. News feed is refreshed at set intervals and moves in a circle. “News prefix” parameter divides the news lines and allows to use text or animated image as a separator.
Rotation
"Rotation" service helps to organize interactive communication with the viewer, who can vote for the enjoyed clip and watch it broadcasted. Clip playback starts automatically based on majority of its votes. After clip playback is completed its votes are nullified and the clip is placed at the end of broadcast queue until it gets the majority of the votes again. Every clip has its unique number in the clip catalogue, this number serves as a trigger for vote processing.
During clip playback the titles prepared in advance are displayed automatically, they present the song title, performer information, as well as additional information about the clip, which can be used for the advertisement of the song melody for cell phones or the upcoming concerts of the performer.
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