Cost-effective, scalable and future-proof solution
Our software is constantly enhanced by our in-house development team to provide consistent, high-quality services
Excellent customer service and first-class TV experiences
The PA TV Metadata team are passionate about TV and always understand our customer requirements and unique business models
Industry-leading metadata services and expert editorial staff
We are constantly evaluating the electronic and interactive programme guide capabilities and TV metadata marketplace in order to meet customer needs and exceed expectations
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Our international business has gone from strength to strength and PA TV Metadata has made hundreds of changes to platform exports, from second-accurate EPG services and delivery and bespoke coding for channel listings to catch up and sideloading flags
With more than 30 years’ experience of TV broadcasting data aggregation, PA Media’s market-leading TV listings service is relied upon by the best websites, apps, newspapers and magazines in the business, including Sky and Radio Times.
EBS joined PA Media Group in 2018 and offers effective and innovative TV channel listings management, enhancement, and distribution services to a growing roster of global clients.
The two entities have now combined and rebranded as PA TV Metadata, facilitating the development of bespoke and effective solutions to provide quality, accurate and comprehensive EPG and VOD metadata services to platforms and channels worldwide. Discover more information on the metadata platform Pawa.
As TVs get smarter and offer next-generation functionality such as recommendations or actor-based search, extra TV metadata is required above and beyond the usual time, title and synopsis.
Our system is built and maintained in-house, meaning that we can easily iterate it to accommodate the increasing demands of the rapidly changing broadcast industry.
TV show metadata within the Pawa library is held in a simple hierarchy of Programme > Series > Episode > Version.
Metadata can be stored at each of those levels as appropriate. This hierarchy can be used when producing output files, and if data is missing at any level, the output will fall back to the previous level instead to ensure there are no gaps in the data.
Data is stored as efficiently as possible and allows us to add more granular metadata where required.
Metadata can be added separately at individual schedule event level. This affords greater flexibility to tailor EPG schedules to a certain promotion or theme without affecting library data.
The exact TV metadata stored in Pawa is completely customisable. Any number of fields can be added and configured as necessary.
The functionality ranges from gathering keywords, driving recommendation engines, assigning common IDs between related content, to creating associations between TV programming.