Everything that runs your channel
Schedule, vault, Control Room, destinations, and more — what ships in Hustle TV Studio today, with roadmap items labelled planned so you can see what's next.
Broadcast Scheduling
Weekly rundown list
Build your channel's entire week one day at a time — add shows, reorder them, and every start time is worked out for you automatically.
Automatic timing
Reorder a show and the rest of the day recalculates instantly, junction card included, so tight schedules stay contiguous by default.
No dead air, enforced
Any minute of the day not covered by a show, junction, or declared break becomes a visible "Awaiting content" placeholder that blocks you from going live.
One break per day, on air
Declare a single off-air window of up to six hours per broadcast day; the channel keeps streaming a "We'll be back" card the entire time.
Compact day
Pull a day's shows tight with one click, closing gaps without touching your other days' start times.
Wall-clock anchors
Moving or resizing one show never shifts another; your primetime slot stays exactly where you put it, week after week.
Repeat and strip programming
Set a show to repeat across chosen weekdays, weekends, or every day, the way real channels strip a series.
Rotation slots
Point a slot at a whole collection instead of one file; the channel rotates through it in order or shuffled, a different (but deterministic) pick each week.
Copy and replace a day
Duplicate one day's schedule onto another, or wipe and replace it outright, both undoable in one click.
Daypart awareness
Breakfast, daytime, primetime, and late-night bands are visible on the grid, with primetime visually weighted so you can see your week's shape.
Live readiness diagnostics
Every scheduling problem — missing media, unallocated time, an over-long break, a second break — is named in plain language with a one-click fix, and blocks going live until resolved.
Live source scheduling
Drop a live feed into any slot on your grid; it airs for exactly that window, re-resolved fresh the moment it goes on, then hands off to your next show on schedule.
Command-palette quick add
Double-click any point on the grid to search your library and drop a show in place, snapped automatically.
Full keyboard control
Move, resize, duplicate, delete, and nudge any block from the keyboard, with a shortcuts reference a keystroke away.
The Guide (EPG)
A real TV guide for your channel
A horizontal, read-only week view built on the same grammar every viewer already knows from decades of TV guides — no onboarding required.
Live now line
A moving line shows exactly where "now" sits across your week, so you always know what's airing without checking the clock.
Now & Next, always visible
The currently airing show and what's coming next are called out with their own visual treatment, on the guide and in Control Room.
Primetime, at a glance
Your 18:00–23:00 slot is visually weighted on the guide the way broadcast schedules highlight peak hours.
Genre colour coding
Every show carries a colour by type, with a legend, so you can read your channel's rhythm without reading every label.
Programme detail on demand
Click any slot for a synopsis card — thumbnail, times, duration, and status — with one link straight back to the editor.
Live slots read as live
A scheduled live source is marked distinctly on the guide before and during its window, so viewers and you both know it's not a file.
Publish your week as an image
Export a 1080p schedule card, or a portrait "Tonight" version, ready to post to socials or Discord.
Publish your week as text
A plain listing formatted for pasting straight into a YouTube description.
Publish your week as XMLTV
A standards-compliant guide feed for anyone running downstream EPG tooling.
Channel Identity & Presentation
One home for your on-air identity
Logo, screen bug, and every continuity card live in a single Channel page, each with a live preview of exactly what the engine will output.
Screen bug preview
See your bug composited on a real frame at its true broadcast position before it ever airs.
Five continuity cards
Countdown, transition, closing, ad-window, and break cards are each configurable with your own artwork, or a clean auto-generated fallback.
"We'll be back" card
Your break card states your return time and the first three shows of your next broadcast window, generated automatically from your schedule.
Colour-coded show labels
Tag shows or whole collections with one of eight colours to see your week's shape across the grid, guide, and rundowns at a glance.
The Vault (media library)
Three ways to add media
Import files, watch a folder, or pull straight from a URL.
Collections, nested
Organise your library into folders and sub-folders, with roll-up counts and filtering.
Kind and state at a glance
Filter by video, live source, bumper, or placeholder, and see download and readiness status on every card.
Safe removal
Deleting media that's still scheduled tells you exactly how many slots use it before you confirm.
Control Room (Live Operations)
Pre-flight checklist
Four verifiable checks — media ready, licence valid, connection live, schedule clean — before the Go Live button ever activates.
One-click YouTube connect
Device-code authentication with a live countdown and a cancel button if you change your mind.
Live diagnostics in plain English
Every blocker is written as a sentence a human would say, with a link straight to the fix.
On-air monitoring
Current title, viewer count, per-destination health, and elapsed/remaining time, all reading from the same clock your channel actually plays on.
Presentation at a glance
See your bug, logo, and every continuity card's status without leaving the live console; edit them on the Channel page in one click.
Skip and stop, with consequences stated
Skip to the next show or stop the broadcast entirely, each confirmed with exactly what will happen.
Distribution & Syndication
Multi-destination streaming
Send your encode to YouTube and additional RTMP destinations simultaneously.
Write-only stream keys
Keys are stored in your system keychain and never displayed once saved.
Device Distribution (Pro) — on the roadmap
Desk to living room is next: Studio ships the channel today; TV sticks and a central directory are planned, not in the current desktop download.
Your channel, on a real TV
Planned: watch on a Hustle stick or sideloaded Firestick app — television, not a browser tab.
One-tap channel discovery
Planned: devices find your channel through a directory that updates when you go on or off air.
Category browsing
Planned: viewers browse channels by category — music, sport, film & TV, gaming, and more.
Private channels with a PIN
Planned: keep a channel out of public discovery and gate it behind a PIN for household or community use.
Central EPG sync
Planned: your Studio-published guide reaches every device, kept in sync with your schedule.
Boots straight to your channel
Planned: on a branded Hustle stick, the app is the system launcher — plug in, and it's on.
Reliability & Trust Roadmap
Planned for the public directory and device layer — not claims about Studio today.
Broadcaster quality score
Planned: a transparent uptime score from how consistently a listed channel has actually been broadcasting.
Uptime commitment
Planned: listed channels commit to coverage targets over a rolling window, measured automatically — not on the honour system.
Viewer feedback
Planned: viewers can rate a channel and report problems, with reports reviewed by a person before action.
Channel moderation with recourse
Planned: channels can be suspended with a stated reason and a path back to good standing — never silently dropped.
Content responsibility is clear
Planned: creators are responsible for the rights to what they broadcast, set out in distribution terms before a public listing goes live.
Hustle TV Studio (the desktop app)
Dark, built for a control room
A dark-first interface designed for long broadcast sessions — with a proper light theme, not an invert.
Autosave, always
Every schedule change is saved as you make it; the status strip tells you so.
Undo where it matters
Destructive schedule actions — remove, copy, replace a day — come with one-click undo.
Automatic updates, on your terms
Studio checks for updates and asks before installing — nothing changes without your say-so.
Trial first, licence when it earns it
Use the full product before you pay for it.