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October 5th, 2009

SatBroadcasting: Self-Scheduling With ScheduALL


ScheduALL homepage banner TFO, the Ontario French-language Educational Communications Authority, is using ScheduALL Enterprise Resource Management (ERM) software at its state-of-the-art HD facility to enable intuitive, efficient, and cost-effective scheduling of the people, rooms, and equipment involved in its production of programming for broadcast and other distribution platforms.

In 2007, TFO emerged from TVOntario as an independent organization, and the ScheduALL installation completed within just a month of the initial consultation, enabled TFO to make a rapid yet smooth transition to self-scheduling at its new Yonge and College facilities in Toronto. Today, the network has 150 employees and a yearly operational budget of $23 million, and broadcasts 21 hours of content each day. TFO produces 200 hours of fresh content every year, ranging from live shows for kids, a daily live current affairs show, a teen show, and segments for four different age groups. Collaborating with external francophone production companies in both Ontario and other Canadian provinces, TFO each year co-produces and acquires an additional 400 hours of content including drama series, sitcoms, documentaries, cartoons, and children's series.