SailFinOffer TV to your customers without betting the company on it.
SailFin takes the feeds you already receive and delivers them to TVs, phones, tablets and set-top boxes, with a guide, recordings, local ads and billing hooks. Built by an operator for operators, and priced for a few hundred or a few thousand TV customers, not a few million.
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Your headend
Satellite receivers, off-air tuners and MPTS or SRT feeds you already have.
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SailFin workers
Encode and package each channel on servers at your headend, with GPU transcoding where you have it.
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SailFin platform
Channels, guide, subscribers, rights, ads and health, hosted by us or on your servers.
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Your customers
Your TV service on their TVs, phones and tablets, at home or away.
The big platforms aren't priced for you.
Operator TV platforms are built for large cable companies, and a six-figure launch doesn't work when you have a few hundred TV customers. So smaller providers either drop video and watch customers leave for a satellite or streaming bundle, or keep an ageing platform running long past its time.
SailFin was built inside a working rural provider facing exactly those numbers. It runs that provider's live TV service every day, two headends and 80+ channels, and it's priced for operators that size.
You keep your channels, your programming agreements and your customers. We provide the platform.
Everything you need to run TV
One platform from the headend to the living room, managed from one admin. See every feature.
Headend conversion
Turn existing receiver and multicast feeds into IP channels. Workers self-register per headend, with health checks and failover between sources.
Apps for your customers
Google TV and Android TV, Android phones and tablets, with sign-in or QR-code activation. Set-top boxes through Ministra. More devices on the roadmap.
Guide and recordings
A full program guide from Schedules Direct, and network DVR recordings stored on your own storage.
Home and away
Per-channel rules for watching at home or away, matched to your programming agreements. Streams use signed, expiring links.
Subscribers and devices
Plans, stream and device limits, and a clear device list for each account, managed by your staff or your customers.
Billing integration
A signed API for sign-up, activation, plan changes and billing status, so SailFin plugs into the billing system you already run.
Stream health
Every channel checked continuously from signal to delivery, with the failing step named, before customers call.
Viewer analytics
Live and historical viewing by channel and device, the same data that powers ad reporting.
Channel cost tracking
Import your programming invoice and see what each channel costs per subscriber, next to how much it's watched.
What your customers see
A TV app that feels current: tonight's highlights, channel rows with live previews and a full guide.
Program pictures blurred in these screenshots.
Sell local ads in the breaks
SailFin detects the networks' local ad breaks and inserts your own spots: ads for your internet service, or paid spots for local businesses. Viewers can press OK to ask for a text or a call back, and every play is counted.
- Upload a spot once; SailFin prepares it for every channel
- Rotation and separation rules, so no one sees the same ad twice in a row
- Proof-of-play and household reach reports for advertisers
- Responses go straight to the advertiser, and to your own sales team for your spots
One admin for the whole service
These are live screens from a provider running on SailFin today: two headends, every encoding server reporting in.
Hosted by us, or on your servers
Either way you keep your own channels, programming agreements and customers.
Pricing that fits a small operator
A platform fee from $7 down to $4 per subscriber, or sell our licensed lineup and earn $8.50 a subscriber with no billing at all. Either way you keep at least $5 per subscriber, every month.
TV services running on SailFin
Each provider sells and supports its own TV service. If you get TV through one of them, sign up and get help through your provider.
WiConnect TV
Live TV with local stations, ESPN and the local community channel, on your TV, phone and tablet, from WiConnect in southwestern Wisconsin. You don't need WiConnect internet to sign up.
- Price
- $45 a month founding rate, each additional TV $10 a month, no contract
- Watch on
- Google TV and Android TV, Android phones and tablets
- App
- SailFin TV on Google Play
- Support
- 608-524-1579, call or text
- More
- wicw.net/tv
Your service could be listed here. Run an internet or cable service and want to offer TV? Book a demo and we'll show you the platform on a live service.
Running live today
See it running
We'll walk you through the platform on a live service, and look at what it would take to run your lineup on it.