Empire Channel

Your community channel, on every TV in the building.

Activities, menus, birthdays and notices, on the DIRECTV system you already own. One recreation director, one screen, no design skills, no new wiring.

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How it works

One small box on the rack. Every TV in the building.

Your headend already distributes signal to every room. We add an Android player and an HDMI modulator to the rack, and your community channel lands on a channel of your choosing. Residents tune to it like any other station.

1
We install the player
A small Android device into an HDMI modulator on your existing rack. One visit. Nothing in any resident room changes.
2
Your director signs in
From any computer or tablet in the building. Nothing to install.
3
She types, the TVs change
New content reaches every screen in under a minute.
Signal path
Android player  in the rack
↓  HDMI
Modulator  on channel 2
↓  existing coax
Every television  in the building
No new cabling. No smart TVs. No per room hardware. It works with the COM3000 and Ventiva systems already in place.
The slides

Built for senior living, not for marketing departments.

Twelve of them, every one because a recreation director asked for it. Type is sized to read from a doorway, with the contrast and scale that residents with reduced vision actually need. Pick a shape, fill it in, watch it appear on the screen as you type.

Design

Or build the screen yourself.

Start from a layout, then drag anything anywhere. Photographs, headlines, panels, shapes. Snap guides catch the centre so it lands straight. Twelve backgrounds are included, made for community screens rather than borrowed from a stock library.

Drag and drop
Move, resize, reorder, rotate. Arrow keys nudge. Undo is there when something goes wrong.
Twelve backgrounds
Dawn, ocean, meadow, celebration, winter and more. Every one has a scrim under the text, because white type on a raw photograph is unreadable across a room.
Or your own photographs
Upload the summer picnic. Residents would rather see their own garden than a stock beach.
Widgets

Things that keep themselves right.

Drop them on any design. A clock and a date never need updating. A countdown ticks down to the picnic on its own. A QR code is drawn on the device itself, so it still scans when the building's internet is out.

Clock and date
In the community's own time zone. Right in Texas and right in New Jersey.
Countdown
Six days until the picnic, then five, then four. Nobody touches it.
QR code
Point a phone at the TV and land on the family app. Drawn offline.
Scrolling notice
A ticker along the bottom for visiting hours or a reminder.
Video and web
Paste a YouTube link and it plays. Or embed a page you already have.
Icons and lists
Twenty four drawn for community life: bingo, music, worship, transport.
Quotes
A line from a resident, set the way it deserves.
Progress
How far along the fundraiser is, at a glance.
A design using a clock, a countdown, a QR code and a ticker. Live, in your browser.
AI help

Describe the slide. Get one back.

Type "bingo Tuesday at 2 in the activity room" and a finished slide appears, ready to adjust. It is told to keep headlines short, use plain warm language, and leave a field empty rather than invent a time or a name nobody gave it.

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It never makes things up
A missing detail stays missing. On a wall in front of residents, an invented dinner time is worse than a blank line.
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She stays in charge
It opens in the editor for her to change. Nothing reaches a screen without a person putting it there.
Ask Emmy
bingo Tuesday at 2 in the activity room
Scheduling

A calendar, not a settings panel.

Your director thinks "Tuesday is bingo at two." So that is what the software looks like. Drop content on a day. Set it weeks ahead. It runs itself.

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Schedule months in advance
Holiday programming set in October simply appears in December, then disappears on its own.
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Replace or play alongside
The lunch menu can own the noon hour completely, while holiday slides join the normal rotation all week. Both, not one or the other.
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The screen never goes blank
There is always a fallback loop underneath. If nothing is scheduled, the everyday content plays.
December
Willowmere
■ Replaces ■ Plays alongside ■ Everyday loop
When it matters

Every screen, immediately.

Severe weather, a lockdown, a water shutoff. One button takes over every television in the building at once, and it clears itself so nobody has to remember to turn it off.

The family app

Families see the same day their mother sees.

A daughter three states away opens a link on her phone and knows there is music at two and fish for dinner. It is the same content already on the TVs, so it costs your team nothing extra.

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A public link or private accounts
Put a QR code at the front desk, or invite families individually. Your choice, per building.
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You decide what leaves the building
Each slide is marked family visible or TV only. Internal notices never reach a phone.
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In your community's colours
Each building sets its own app name, accent colour, logo and light or dark. A daughter opens it and sees her mother's community, not a vendor.
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Nothing to install
It opens in a browser and can be saved to a home screen.
Willowmere
What is on today
9:30 AMMorning stretch
11:00 AMCoffee and news
2:00 PMLive piano
3:30 PMIce cream social
Dining
Dinner
Baked cod, rice pilaf, honey carrots
Celebrating this week
Happy birthday, Ruth
Eleanor Hayes turns 91 on Thursday.
For groups

One building or fifty.

A corporate director signs in once and moves between every community in the portfolio from a single menu. A local director sees only her own building. Nobody is managing dozens of separate logins.

Organization access
Attach a person to a parent account and they reach every community under it, including ones opened later.
Permissions per person
The activities aide may add slides but not delete them. The dining manager touches menus only. Set it person by person.
Directors add their own team
No support ticket to add a new hire. She invites them herself, with only the permissions she holds.
<60s
From typing to on the TVs
48h
Of schedule cached on every player
0
Rooms that need new hardware
1
Login for an entire portfolio
Reliability

The internet goes down. The channel does not.

Every player holds two full days of schedule and all its media on the device itself. If the building loses its circuit on a Friday night, Saturday morning's activities still appear at the right time.

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Comes back after a power cut
The player starts itself when the box powers up. Nobody has to walk to the rack.
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Correct clock, every state
Each community keeps its own time zone, so a nine o'clock slide fires at nine in Texas and nine in New Jersey.
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We can see every screen
Online state and current content for the whole fleet, so a dark TV gets noticed by us, not by a family member.
Screens
● Main Lobby playing
● Dining Room playing
● Second Floor playing
● Rehab Wing playing
● Chapel offline 4m
Compared

What most signage systems leave out.

General purpose signage is built for a retail chain with four lobby displays. A senior living community is a different problem.

 Typical signageEmpire Channel
Buildings and organizationsOne flat accountParent accounts and facilities
Who sees whatA few fixed rolesPermissions per person
Time zonesWhatever the box thinksSet per community
Overlapping schedulesUndefinedReplace or play alongside
Emergency takeoverNot offeredOne button, self clearing
Planning viewSettings dialogsA month calendar
FamiliesNothingCompanion app included
TemplatesRetail and restaurantWritten for senior living
Design canvasGeneric design toolBuilt in, with layouts
Weather on screenA paid add onIncluded, works offline
AI helpNothingDescribe it, get a slide
Live widgetsClock, if you payClock, date, countdown, QR, ticker
QR to a family appNothing to point atDrawn on the device, works offline
Next step

See it running on your own building's channel.

We will put a player on your rack, load your real activity calendar, and let your recreation director try it for a month. If she does not want to keep it, we take it back out.

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