{"id":491,"date":"2024-04-12T09:58:24","date_gmt":"2024-04-12T15:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.titantvinc.com\/blog\/?p=491"},"modified":"2025-09-30T07:59:25","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T13:59:25","slug":"mediastars-direct-data-reporting-makes-sending-broadcasting-reports-effortless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.titantvinc.com\/blog\/mediastars-direct-data-reporting-makes-sending-broadcasting-reports-effortless\/","title":{"rendered":"MediaStar\u2019s Direct Data Reporting Makes Sending Broadcasting Reports Effortless"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>Latest Update to Direct Data Reporting Feature<\/em><br><em>Automates Creation and Sending of Schedule Reports to TiVo<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>TitanTV Inc., announces its latest update to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.titantvinc.com\/broadcast-software\/mediastar-suite\/mediastar-scheduler\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">MediaStar\u2019<\/a>s <a href=\"https:\/\/tti.titantv.com\/Docs\/NAB2024\/MediaStarDDR.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Direct Data Reporting<\/a> (DDR) feature. DDR collects a station\u2019s schedule information, processes that data, generates comprehensive reports and sends them to select major data services in a single, seamless operation.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This update to MediaStar now includes TiVo among the list of major data services that receive digestible broadcasting schedules by DDR. Before the addition of the DDR feature to MediaStar, it was necessary for a station to perform the time-consuming and error-prone task of manually gathering its data, converting that data into a provider-specific format, and sending the file to that data service provider. This process must be repeated to generate reports for each of the data service providers.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In DDR, the collection, processing, formatting, and electronic transmission of the report data to each selected data service is now automatic.\u00a0This process allow our selected data service providers to more easily deliver broadcast schedules to their respective customers. The DDR now generates and sends reports in the provider-specific file formats for major data services such as <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tivo.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tivo<\/a>, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.simply.tv\/\" target=\"_blank\">Simply.TV<\/a>, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nielsen.com\/solutions\/content-metadata\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gracenote<\/a>, and <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tvmedia.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">TV Media<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOur client stations rely on MediaStar to help them resolve programming and reporting issues,\u201d stated <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/heidiabelsteffen\/\" target=\"_blank\">Heidi Steffen,<\/a> Chief Revenue Office, TitanTV, Inc. \u201cOne common topic among them was the time and labor-intensive task of creating and sending their programming reports to the broadcast industry\u2019s data services.\u201d&nbsp;<br><br>\u201cThe need to find a better way to get program data updated across the guide services drove us to create Direct Data Reporting,\u201d added Steffen.&nbsp; \u201cA task that used to take our clients hours to complete may now be performed in minutes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/heidiabelsteffen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img src=\"https:\/\/go.titantvinc.com\/l\/279992\/2021-05-31\/nfk3g\/279992\/1622515895LTsGLsA8\/Heidi.approved.Headshot.smaller.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><figcaption>Heidi Steffen, CRO of TitanTV, Inc<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.titantvinc.com\/about-us\/mission-statement\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">About TitanTV, Inc.<\/a><\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An independently owned company located in Cedar Rapids, IA, TitanTV Inc. is the foremost provider of data and real-time scheduling tools to the broadcast television industry. &nbsp;TitanTV creates innovative, powerful tools that enable television broadcasters to maintain their stations&#8217; schedules efficiently and economically.&nbsp; Its products are used by stations in every television market across the country.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The company also publishes and maintains the consumer sites <a href=\"https:\/\/www.antennaweb.org\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AntennaWeb.org<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/titantv.com\/Default.aspx?r=t\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TitanTV.com.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>TitanTV\u2019s corporate website is located at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.titantvinc.com\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.titantvinc.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Contact TitanTV by email at: <a href=\"mailto:Info@TitanTV.com\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Info@TitanTV.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Latest Update to Direct Data Reporting FeatureAutomates Creation and Sending of Schedule Reports to TiVo TitanTV Inc., announces its latest update to MediaStar\u2019s Direct Data Reporting (DDR) feature. DDR collects a station\u2019s schedule information, processes that data, generates comprehensive reports and sends them to select major data services in a single, seamless operation.&nbsp; This update [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":492,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.titantvinc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.titantvinc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.titantvinc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.titantvinc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.titantvinc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.titantvinc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":603,"href":"https:\/\/www.titantvinc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions\/603"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.titantvinc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.titantvinc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.titantvinc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.titantvinc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}