# PULSE FEST — Music Festival Board > Free, remixable music festival digital signage for any TV: lineup hero, headliner rows, tonight's stage times, food and entry info, and a ticket QR code. Source: https://channelos.tv/t/pulse-fest-music-festival-board-a4175ed5-a8e7-4acd-860f-239c368065ee Category: Events Shape: 16:9 (landscape) Slides: 5 Author: Community Showcase (community) Price: free --- ## What is music festival digital signage? Music festival digital signage is a screen at a festival or live-music venue that plays the lineup, set times, stage map, entry rules and ticket links instead of a printed board. It runs from a web player on any TV, and organisers edit it between sets so a stage change reaches the crowd in seconds. Festival and live-music venue crews run this on a 16:9 TV to show the lineup, stage times, entry rules and a ticket QR. ## What is on this board The slides below are the template's real content, flattened to text. Remixing copies the whole deck into your own workspace, where every line is editable. ### Slide 1 of 5 - 3 stages · 2 nights · one pulse - PULSE FEST - Aug 15–16 · Riverside Grounds · gates 4pm - #PULSEFEST · pulsefest.live ### Slide 2 of 5 - The Lineup - NOVA SKY - Main Stage · 9:30 - HEADLINER - Violet Hour - River Stage · 8:00 - Bass Cadets - Grove · 7:00 - Local Openers - all stages · from 4 - #PULSEFEST · pulsefest.live ### Slide 3 of 5 - Tonight - Main Stage - Nova Sky - 9:30 - River Stage - Violet Hour - 8:00 - The Grove - Bass Cadets - 7:00 - #PULSEFEST · pulsefest.live ### Slide 4 of 5 - Good to know - Eat, drink, enter - Food trucks - Grove - Bars - cashless - Entry - 18+ ID - No re-entry after 10pm - #PULSEFEST · pulsefest.live ### Slide 5 of 5 - Last few released - Grab your ticket - scan to buy - Weekend & day passes at pulsefest.live — under-16s free with a guardian. - #PULSEFEST · pulsefest.live ## Frequently asked questions ### What are the 7 key elements of digital signage? No standards body publishes an official seven, so treat any list you find as one writer's grouping. What a working install actually needs is concrete: a display, a player device driving it, a network connection, software to manage what plays, the content itself, a schedule saying when each piece airs, and one named person who owns updates. The last two are what fail in practice. A festival board with nobody on it still shows Friday's lineup on Saturday afternoon. Decide before the gates open who changes the set times and from which device, and put the day plan on a schedule so the stage slide swaps itself instead of waiting on someone standing in a field. ### What is a good slogan for a music festival? A slogan only earns space on a board if it survives being read at distance, so write it to fit the screen rather than shrinking the screen to fit it. Keep it to three or four words, put the festival name or the year inside it, and cut anything that has to be read twice. Then size it. The sign trade works to roughly 25mm of capital letter height for every 3 metres of viewing distance, so a line read from 12 metres across a field needs capitals around 100mm tall. If the words will not fit at that height, they are not a slogan, they are copy for the ticket page. Give the space to the lineup instead. ### What is the price of digital signage? Price splits into three lines and only one of them recurs. The screen: a consumer TV is the cheapest way onto a wall, while commercial panels cost more and are warranted for longer daily run times, which matters if the board is lit from gates to close across several days. The player: a media stick, a small box, or the smart TV's own browser. The software: almost always billed per screen per month, so the number to budget against is your screen count, never your venue size or your audience. For one stage board running a few weekends a year, a consumer TV, a browser-based player and a single screen subscription is usually the whole bill. Ask any vendor what happens to your content the month you stop paying. ### What is a digital signboard? A digital signboard is a screen carrying the information a printed board used to carry, driven by software instead of a print run. The practical difference is the edit cycle: a printed lineup is fixed the day it goes to press, and a digital one changes in the time it takes to type. That is the whole case for one at a festival, where set times move, a headliner drops out, and the gate queue needs a different message at 6pm than at 11pm. Hang it landscape 16:9 above a bar or an entrance, and portrait where it stands in a walkway and people pass it side on. This board is free to open, edit and put on a TV with ChannelOS. ## How to use it 1. Open https://channelos.tv/t/pulse-fest-music-festival-board-a4175ed5-a8e7-4acd-860f-239c368065ee and press "Use this template". Create a free account and the template opens in your own workspace. 2. Change the words, prices and photos in the editor, from a phone or a computer. 3. On the TV, open play.channelos.tv in its own browser, pair it from your phone with the code it shows, then publish the board to it. It runs in the television's own web browser. There is no media player box to buy and nothing to install. The first screen is free. Free screens show a ChannelOS banner along the bottom of the screen. Any paid plan removes it.