Central calendar for all streamers

Problem from the viewer's perspective:

You've found a few channels you like, but you don't know when the next stream is scheduled or whether there are regular broadcast times.

Problem from the streamer's perspective:

You want to inform your viewers about regular broadcast times and any individual cancellations (!) in this series. You want to inform your viewers about special dates.

Challenge for both:

The time difference and the different world time formats.

Solution:

a) Streamer

There is a calendar where streamers can enter dates.

Fields:

• Date (individual dates and series of dates) -> For series of dates, it is helpful to have corresponding functions (daily, weekly, monthly, every 1st/2nd/3rd/4th/5th weekday per month),...

• Title (title of the program/series)

• Free text field (information about the program)

• Start date (date/time of planned start) -> The following would be ideal: LFG knows the user making the entry because they are logged in and therefore also knows which time zone they (generally) stream from. If necessary, such a field could also be queried in the general channel settings. The streamer specifies the start date from the perspective of their time zone (example: UTC+2 7:00 pm).

• End date (optional entry for the planned end: day/time)

• Link (optional for further information)

b) Viewers

Viewers can display the cumulative data of the streamers (channels).

By default, all currently running programs are displayed, sorted by genre (with the planned end time displayed if applicable). This is similar to classic online TV guides. You can scroll the timeline to the right to see the later hours in the future.

Special feature(!): The date and time are already converted to their time zone (according to the zone stored in their profile)!

Functions:

• (serarch)Filter (LFG music genres (Afro, Chill, House, etc.), timeline (show me programs from date/time), program duration (show all streams with a duration greater/less than XXX minutes), etc.)

• Reminder function (you can mark individual programs in the calendar and send yourself a reminder (email/SMS/chat message, etc.).

(Note: I would also like to see such a reminder function at the channel level for viewers, so that they can mark their favorite channels as such).

Possible future functions:

• Individual recording of programs (similar to online TV recorders) which are then available for xx days (may be subject to a fee!)

Such a calendar could be a unique selling point for LFG.TV! And... to be honest, it is extremely important for the usability of a 24-hour global live streaming service.

Best regards and continued success!

Norbert

(House Sound of Hamburg, HSH-lab)