Broadcast scheduling, autonomous
Rivr is an AI scheduling agent built for regional TV stations. It builds your broadcast schedule, monitors for conflicts, fixes errors, and alerts you only when it needs judgment — not hand-holding.
Regional broadcasters shouldn't need a team of ten and a six-figure software budget to keep their channel on air. The big platforms were built for national networks. Rivr was built for the station down the road.
How it works
Drop in your program library — recorded shows, promos, jingles, spots. Tag them by type, duration, genre, and any regulatory rules that apply.
Define scheduling constraints: local content quotas, genre rotation, ad load limits, maximum consecutive repeats, prime-time preferences.
The AI builds your schedule, continuously monitors for conflicts or gaps, self-corrects, and handles last-minute changes — automatically, 24/7.
Rivr flags anything that needs human judgment — a rights expiry, a genre conflict, an unexpected gap. You decide. The rest runs itself.
Built for regional operations
The AI builds the schedule. Not a drag-and-drop interface — a live agent that maintains it, 24 hours a day.
Schedule gaps, genre collisions, expired rights, regulatory violations — Rivr catches them and fixes them before they hit air.
Local content quotas, ARCOM rules, maximum ad loads — encode them once, and Rivr enforces them in every schedule it generates.
Breaking news, live events, special programming — signal a change and Rivr rebuilds the affected blocks in real time.
Export schedules in industry formats — EPG XML, BXF, CSV — ready to plug into any playout system: OpenBroadcaster, Veset, EBIMS, or custom.
Pull in basic viewership data and Rivr adjusts genre timing — moves documentaries to higher-traffic slots, nudges repeats off prime time.
What Rivr handles
Prime time, morning, off-peak — Rivr populates each window with the right content mix, automatically.
Documentary, news, fiction, music — Rivr enforces your rotation rules so the schedule never gets stuck in one mode.
Breaks, spots per hour, separation rules — Rivr builds the commercial structure into the schedule, not on top of it.
Want the magazine show re-run at midnight? Set it and forget it — Rivr slots it and respects its repeat limits.
Sports, breaking news, elections — Rivr isolates the affected window, rebuilds around it, and restores normal operation after.
Not just tomorrow — Rivr builds out rolling 7-day schedules and flags upcoming gaps before they become problems.
Every hour spent hand-building a schedule is an hour not spent on the content that actually matters. Rivr replaces the spreadsheet. The control room still belongs to you — but the schedule runs itself.