Teletext - Professional Products
TV-Guide Editor

FAB TV-Guide Editor manages a TV programme database for up to 50 TV channels. It allows very easy entering of TV programme listings and automatic generation of teletext pages out of the database. The TV-Guide editor is a proven solution that may save up to 90% of time that is required for generation of TV Programme teletext pages in a regular way.

The TV-Guide editor supports the following features:

Database

File based database, SQL Server is not required. In general the FT-NC 2.5 FAB Teletext Network Controller is used as a file server for hosting the database.

Multi-user capable, multiple users can edit the same database at the same time

Up to 50 TV channels - Windows based configuration tools

Editor

Windows based TV listing entry

Programme shift / move function

"What you see is what you get" preview of teletext pages generated for a specific day/time

Manual / Automatic import from other database formats (CSV).

When importing from other formats all changes are automatically displayed and highlighted: New/Changed/Deleted programmes.

Teletext Page Generation

Windows based configuration tool

What's on now/next page

TV listing page: pages for today's TV programme, tomorrow, next 7/14 days

Contents pages: pages for programme contents (i.e. film descriptions). The page number of the generated teletext page is automatically displayed also on the TV listing pages (see above)

Existing Data Import

Existing programme data can be imported if available in CSV files

The CSV file format is described below

Models & Specifications

FT-TVGUIDE 1

FAB TV-Guide Editor for Windows

Screen Appearance

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CSV File Format

This section describes the file format for the TV programme information that can be imported into FAB TV Guide Editor.

The file format CSV should preferably be used for exchange of TV programme data. The advantage of the CSV Format is that it is expandable and it is supported by other applications as well.

Each CSV file contains programme schedule data for a certain amount of time. Normally each day should be stored in a separate CSV file, however also one file per month or any other logical arrangement is supported.

All filenames should be according to the following convention (however the filenames can be different as well, this filename structure is not obligatory):

CCCCMMTT.csv
CCCC = Channel ID (i.e. MTV1, BR01),
MM = Month (01-12),
TT = Day (01-31)

Each CSV file should be stored in a "Text delimited" format, all texts should be stored in the current Windows codepage (1252, 1250, ...). Each programme should be stored into a separate line into the CSV file. Each line contains more fields which are separated by the TAB character (ASCII #9). The end of each line should contain CR LF.

Each line and each field can be as long as required. There is no limitation regarding the length of texts. To force a line break within the text the text must contain the character ~ (ASCII #126) on the line break position. When exporting to teletext pages the text will be broken into a new line at that position. The new line will start at the same column as the line before.

The following list defines fields that should be present in the CSV file: