COSMOTE TV PROVYS TV Office
Client:
COSMOTE
Solution:
Broadcast
Industry:
Media & Entertainment
Country:
Greece
Project Summary
Between 2013 and 2018, COSMOTE TV implemented the PROVYS TV Office solution in three phases: advertising sales, scheduling and rights management, and expansion to sports channels. Telmaco delivered a broadcast management system covering rights, scheduling, promos, sales, invoicing, and integration with playout, VOD, and OTT, enabling COSMOTE to manage its large portfolio of channels efficiently.
3
Phases
9
Sports Channels
4
Cinema Channels
2018
Completion Year
Overview
COSMOTE, part of OTE Group and Deutsche Telekom, is Greece’s leading telecommunications and media provider. Its Pay TV platform operates multiple sports, cinema, and history channels, plus VOD and OTT services. The PROVYS TV Office project streamlined scheduling, rights management, promos, sales, and workflows across departments, ensuring centralized, automated broadcast operations for COSMOTE TV.
The Challenge
Managing complex multichannel broadcast operations.
Select and implement a scalable advertising sales CRM (Phase 1).
Deploy scheduling and rights management for linear TV and VOD (Phase 2).
Expand to cover sports channels with complex live programming (Phase 3).
Ensure centralized control of multiple channel types: sports, cinema, history, and pop-up channels.
Manage large volumes of promos, commercials, fillers, and interstitials.
Streamline collaboration between editorial, sales, promo, traffic, and scheduling departments.
Enable accurate rights validation and automated warnings to avoid misuse.
Provide reliable data exchange with playout, VOD, OTT, and ERP systems.
The Solution
A fully integrated broadcast management system.
Rights Management
Hierarchical contract system covering channels, licences, reruns, and rights validation.
Scheduling & Macro Planning
Schema weeks, chain scheduling, sports and cinema macros, with conflict detection.
EPG Management
Metadata entry (synopsis, actors, subtitles, posters) and exports to Huawei VOD platform.
Ingest Scheduling
Planning of up to 24 simultaneous live recordings with Glookast devices and resource conflict checks.
Promos
Template-driven creation and lifecycle management, automated scheduling, validity periods, and campaigns.
Sales & Advertising
Break patterns, templates, pricing, agency order management, law compliance, and client tracking.
Micro Scheduling
Final playlist creation with interstitials, promos, commercials, fillers, and secondary events. Export to Pebble Beach Marina playout.
Invoicing
Full billing, discounts, tax handling, and SAP ERP integration.
Device Integration & APIs
XML/API interfaces with Marina playout, Huawei VOD, and other systems.
Centralized Database
Reduction of Excel/manual work, cross-department integration, streamlined workflows.
Tailored Services
NRCS integration and daily schedule handoff.
Ad sales pricing, bookings, and compliance.
VOD/OTT metadata exports to platform.
Ongoing support for broadcast management workflows.
Role-based training across departments.
Phased expansion for channels and services.
