Sharing the TelVue 2025 Vision with JAG

by Jesse Lerman, President/CEO, TelVue & Denise Rolfe, Director, Community Broadcasting Sales

It’s a new year. TelVue continues to be excited about our long-time partnership with JAG as we integrate the latest technologies to help you save time, expand your audience, increase accessibility, and generate new sources of revenue. Two letters have revolutionized the way we think now about technology: AI (artificial intelligence).

TelVue previously integrated AI into its broadcast products for automatic captioning and translation. Now we’re leveraging AI for meeting summaries and agenda generation to save time on transcript reviews and manual metadata entry. This allows faster meeting prep and streamlined communication. Agendas are displayed as chapters in your video library and are fully searchable along with the captioning—so your viewers can quickly find and watch specific topics of interest across your government meetings.

TelVue’s accurate and affordable SmartCaption automatic captioning service makes live and on-demand programming accessible to hearing impaired and multi-language audiences. Captions improve viewing in noisy environments or with muted audio. SmartCaption and CloudCast help you achieve Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) compliance for your website and apps which is crucial for government compliance. AI is quickly progressing to be able to generate audio description tracks for further accessibility compliance.

Automatic Government Meeting Agenda Generation & Summarization

Social media is vital for community channels, fostering real-time audience engagement and expanded reach (especially among younger audiences) while providing powerful promotional tools beyond traditional TV. Engaging directly with viewers also offers insights to tailor content and increase viral potential. The HyperCaster already automates live programming distribution to platforms like YouTube and Facebook Live, and now we’re adding automatic video files exporting to YouTube playlists. Our InfoVue Community Bulletin Board simplifies integrating social media feeds into your custom screens. For ready-made screens, the Screenfeed Social Apps package supports Facebook, Twitter/X, Instagram, and LinkedIn with moderation options to approve posts before they air.

TelVue Social Media Integration

HyperCaster V8.6 supports motion logos and backgrounds to enhance on-air graphics and branding. Upload motion graphics as bugs (motion logos) or backgrounds for tickers, snipes, clocks, and program guides to draw more attention to your channels through creative, dynamic branding.

NDI is a high-quality, low-latency protocol designed for live production. HyperCaster AIO models now offer NDI output as a new license option to expand output formats along with SDI, Transport Stream, RTMP, and HLS. While the HyperCaster AIO has long supported NDI input for live and recordings, NDI output adds utility for channel monitoring and NDI-centric workflows.

TelVue also launched an affordable, enterprise-grade cloud storage service for secure video archiving. This expands HyperCaster’s integration beyond NAS and Archive.org. Workflow rules allow automatic archive and retrieval of content to the cloud. It includes a browser-based interface for managing users, files, and folders. TelVue Cloud Storage eliminates the complexities of servers, hard drives, RAID, and backups, which results in a  reliable, long-term archiving solution for municipalities and organizations preserving historical programming.

New TelVue Cloud Storage Service for Secure Archiving

The TelVue CloudCast Paywall option empowers JAG stations to generate new revenue with flexible subscription and pay-per-view models (ideal for sports programming). Initially launched for websites, we are now extending Paywall to OTT and mobile apps for a seamless, TV-everywhere experience—purchase once, watch anywhere. CloudCast Paywall supports 24×7 live channels, live event-only, and VOD programming. It has nDVR for rewinding within live events, cloud recording, and live-to-VOD.

CloudCast Video Ads enable JAG stations to monetize live and VOD streams with pre-/mid-/post-roll ads, creating new platform revenue opportunities through local business advertising partnerships.

Generate Revenue with Paywall & Video Ads

OTT and streaming have driven the rise of free ad-supported streaming television (FAST) channels. TelVue now offers cloud channels for FAST, with advanced automation features that can benefit community media stations too. Tools like program segmentation, bumpers, and trailers help fill schedules to standard durations (e.g., 30 minutes, 1 hour) with promos and sponsorship spots to create a more consistent viewer experience.

We look forward to seeing you, presenting these latest developments, and getting your valuable feedback for our roadmap at the next JAG meeting, Feb. 26, 2025 at Bloomfield TV!