Display news feed from CTV news. Use an RSS feed from the news site to display on your screens.
Creating a CTV news app
- Click on the CTV news app within your app gallery to add it and fill in the app details as follows:
- A Name is required for the app, and an optional Description.
- Choose the refresh rate of the RSS widget. This sets the time interval the app will use to update the posts from the feed.
- Choose how many posts you want to display by configuring the Number of Posts.
- Optionally, enable the toggle to display the image of the post. Disabling it will display only the text of the post.
- Configure the slide duration of each post (minimum is 5 seconds) by configuring the Post Duration.
- Select the Style setting.
- Click Save, and your app is ready to use.
Availability
By enabling this option, you can set the media’s Availability. In other words, you can select a future and an expiration date, which means you can pick the exact date and time this media will be available for play on your screens.
ExampleImagine having an event that will start and end on specific dates. Setting an availability on the media you want to display on that event, the system will automatically start and stop displaying these media on the screen based on the dates you have set. No need to manually add/remove these media in your playlist/layout.💡By keeping this option disabled, the media will never expire (recommended)
CBC RSS app