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Scheduling & rights obligation utility for media teams

Schedule, manage rights, and format commercial breaks for broadcast, FAST channels, OTT, and cable from one centralized system.

Support for enterprise data control (optional customer-managed storage) and multi-event tournament scheduling—same engine, your rules.

Media companies operate across more platforms than ever before. Broadcast schedules, FAST channels, OTT distribution, and regional feeds all require different formats, rights checks, and commercial structures.

Our platform provides a single programming and rights management engine that allows networks to build schedules once and deploy them across every distribution channel with full rights compliance and automated commercial formatting.

Schedule once. Distribute everywhere.

The Complexity of Modern Television Distribution

Media companies face significant operational challenges managing programming across multiple distribution platforms.

  • Linear broadcast
  • Cable networks
  • FAST channels
  • OTT streaming platforms
  • Regional and international feeds

Programming teams must manage:

  • Scheduling grids
  • Licensing windows
  • Territory rights
  • Commercial break structures
  • Platform delivery formats

These workflows are often handled through legacy traffic systems, spreadsheets, and disconnected tools, creating operational inefficiency and risk.

A Unified Programming and Rights Platform

The platform centralizes programming scheduling, rights management, and commercial formatting into one system designed for modern multi-platform distribution.

Networks can schedule content once and distribute it across multiple platforms while ensuring rights compliance and proper commercial formatting.

Enterprise Data Control: Your Storage, Our Engine

Schedule.M runs the scheduling, rights, workflow, and AI decision engine—while enterprise clients may optionally keep sensitive source documents in their own storage environment.

  • Platform-managed: Standard and smaller clients; we store files in our secure object storage.
  • Customer-managed: Agreements, schedules, memos, scripts, and legal exhibits stay in your AWS S3, Azure Blob, Google Cloud Storage, SharePoint, or on-prem—we store only references, metadata, and extracted intelligence.

The application, scheduling engine, rights engine, AI copilot, permissions, and audit logging all run from our platform. Parsing and indexing work the same whether files live with us or in your environment; only the storage backend changes.

Designed for enterprise procurement and legal review. See the technical design in the product documentation.

Multi-Event & Tournament Scheduling

Sports and live programming often require multiple concurrent events (e.g. tournament matches, playoff games) that must be assigned across networks and overflow channels.

Schedule.M supports event groups (tournaments or packages like World Cup or Olympics) and simultaneous slots: events that air at the same time are assigned to different networks with priority tiers and rights-aware placement. The ScheDUAL copilot can suggest placements and analyze the concurrent event slate.

  • Event groups and simultaneous time slots
  • Multi-network assignment (broadcast, cable, streaming)
  • Priority tiers and overflow handling
  • Rights tier and territory scope per event

Key Features

Centralized Programming Scheduling

Scheduling grids, automation, and channel management from a single environment. Schedule versioning supports advance planning and audit trails.

Integrated Rights Management

Rights windows, territorial restrictions, and licensing tracking in one place. Automated rights validation prevents scheduling outside permitted windows or territories.

Commercial and Ad Break Formatting

Ad pods, sponsorship slots, promo insertion, and FAST ad structure. Commercial compliance is applied consistently across distribution platforms.

Multi-Platform Distribution

One schedule can output to broadcast, cable, FAST channels, and OTT platforms. Platform-specific formatting is handled within the system.

Enterprise Data Control

Optional customer-managed storage: keep sensitive agreements, schedules, and documents in your own S3, Azure Blob, GCS, or SharePoint. Schedule.M holds only references and extracted data.

Tournament & Live Event Scheduling

Event groups and simultaneous slots for sports and live programming. Assign concurrent matches across networks with priority and rights-aware placement.

See It in Action

Key workflows in the app. Sign in to use the schedule grid, live events, import, and more.

AI-Powered Decision Support

Schedule.M includes a powerful AI utility—the ScheDUAL copilot—that acts as a strategic aide to decision-makers. When it comes to optimizing and managing expensive rights and obligations, AI arms programming and rights teams to look at and visualize rights and schedules like never before—surfacing best-fit windows, conflict risks, and fulfillment gaps in plain language so leaders can act with confidence.

Benefits

Operational Efficiency

Reduce manual handoffs and duplicate data entry. One system for scheduling, rights, and commercial formatting.

Rights Compliance

Automated checks reduce the risk of scheduling content outside its licensed windows or territories.

Multi-Platform Readiness

Schedules are structured to support both traditional broadcast and streaming distribution from day one.

Scalable Channel Management

Manage a single channel or a portfolio of networks from one platform.

Enterprise Data Control

Optional customer-managed storage so sensitive documents stay in your environment; Schedule.M holds only references and extracted intelligence.

Tournament & Live Event Scheduling

Event groups and simultaneous slots for sports and live programming; assign across networks with priority and overflow.

Target Customers

The platform is designed for enterprise media organizations, including:

  • Television networks
  • FAST channel operators
  • Streaming platforms
  • Content distributors
  • Multi-channel media groups

Built for the Future of Television

Modern television distribution requires centralized infrastructure for scheduling, rights management, and distribution across multiple platforms. Our platform is built to meet that requirement.

Schedule once. Distribute everywhere.