SailFin Keep TV for your customers without betting the company on it.
SailFin is a complete TV platform built by an operator, for independent operators. It takes the feeds you already receive and delivers them to TVs, phones and set-top boxes, with a guide, recordings, local ads and billing hooks, for a fraction of what the big platforms charge.
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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 branded apps on TVs, phones and tablets, at home or away, plus set-top boxes.
What your customers see
A TV app that feels current: highlights of what’s on tonight, channel rows with live previews, and a full guide. With your name on it.
Program pictures blurred in these screenshots.
The big video platforms are built and priced for big operators. A six-figure launch doesn’t work when you have a few hundred or a few thousand TV customers.
So smaller providers either drop video and watch customers leave for a satellite or streaming bundle, or they keep an ageing platform running long past its time.
SailFin was built for our own network, WiConnect in southwestern Wisconsin, because we faced the same numbers. It runs our live TV service today, and it’s priced for operators our size.
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 by 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.
TV that earns, not just costs.
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
What you see here is WiConnect’s live system: two headends, every encoding server reporting in.
Hosted by us, or on your servers
You keep your own channels, programming agreements and customers. We provide the platform.
Hosted
We run the platform and apps. Your headend workers connect to it, and your customers stream through our edge.
- Fastest to launch
- Updates and monitoring included
On your servers
The whole platform runs on your own hardware, inside your network.
- Full control of data and delivery
- Uses servers you already own
Pricing that fits a small operator
No six-figure launch. You pay to get set up, then a simple monthly fee that grows only as your TV service grows.
Tell us your subscriber count and headend setup, and we’ll send a quote in plain numbers.
Running live today
SailFin carries WiConnect’s own TV service in southwestern Wisconsin.
See it running
We’ll walk you through the platform on our live service, and look at what it would take to run your lineup on it.