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School Announcement Screens: How to Run Daily Announcements and Bell Schedules on Hallway TVsNovember 6, 2026
One dashboard for every branch screen
Display NOW puts story times, classes, hours and community events on every library screen, scheduled from one place. Business Edge includes a commercial Edge Player for each screen, so branch staff never have to troubleshoot a TV.
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Display NOW founder and CEO Chris Dukich understood that firsthand.
“I created Display NOW because I had a basic need for signage to communicate announcements to residents in a condo building. I didn’t want to pay the ridiculous prices that other providers charge. I tried to go the ‘free’ route, but I ended up coming home to blank screens and putting in hours each month just keeping them alive.
Business owners and managers face rising costs every year, and ‘free’ looks attractive when you’re trying to keep things lean. But many ‘free’ plans are really trials, with limited screens, watermarks and missing features designed to push you to upgrade. Free often costs more than a reasonable price once you add up the downtime, the support tickets and the hours spent keeping it running.
We built Display NOW with the goal of being the number one best value on the market. We have a free plan for people who genuinely need a basic solution, with real features, not a trial. And for everyone else, we built the Edge Player so you never have to worry about hardware again.”
Founder & CEO, Display NOW
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Printed notices and screens that go dark cost more than they look. Here’s what reliable signage is worth.
say signage improves staff engagement
With 43% reporting a significant uplift. Source: ScreenCloud / Google Chrome OS, State of Digital Signage 2023–2024 (n=2,400)
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say information on digital screens enhances their productivity at work. Source: ScreenCloud / Google Chrome OS, State of Digital Signage 2023–2024
Flyers on a corkboard and a calendar on the website reach some patrons. Screens at the entrance and service desks reach everyone who walks in.
Story times, classes and author visits get missed when they only live on a flyer. Screens put them in front of every visitor.
When each branch manages its own screens, messaging drifts. Display NOW lets you send system-wide messages and branch-specific content from one dashboard.
Consumer streaming sticks freeze and need someone to walk over and reboot them. The Edge Player is built to run all day, and our team can connect to it remotely if something goes wrong.
Holiday hours and weather closures need to be right everywhere, fast. Update once and every screen follows within a minute.
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Display NOW gives your communications team and branch staff one simple dashboard for entrance, desk and meeting-room screens.
Promote programs at every branch. Show each branch’s own events, or push system-wide campaigns to all of them.
Schedule content by branch and time of day. Morning story time slides in the morning, evening classes at night.
Show hours and closures instantly. Update holiday hours or a weather closure once, and every screen follows.
Keep screens fresh with Your Daily Loop. Ready-to-play trivia, inspiration and conversation starters fill the gaps between announcements.
Some features, including remote device support and Power BI dashboards, depend on your plan. See Plans for what’s included at each tier.
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Your Daily Loop: done-for-you content, refreshed every day
Common-area screens are the hardest to keep fresh. Nobody owns them, so nothing gets updated, and the screen ends up showing the same slide from six months ago.
Your Daily Loop fills that gap. Professionally curated programming updates automatically every day. Your team sets it once and doesn't touch it again.
Available as an add-on. See pricing for details.
Ready-made templates you can make your own. Swap in your logo, update colors and copy, and publish to every screen. No designer needed.
Announcements
Events and Calendars
Seasonal Campaigns
Welcome Screens
Wayfinding and Navigation
Already designing in Canva? Save designs straight to Display NOW with our Canva integration.
Save from Canva to Manager
Plug the Edge Player into any TV or display with an HDMI port, connect it to Wi‑Fi, and enter the pairing code.
Sign in with Google or Microsoft. Start from a template, save from Canva, or upload your own. Most people have their first screen live in about 6 minutes.
Publish once and every selected screen updates. Change it from your laptop or phone, wherever you are.
Start free on one screen, upgrade when you're ready, or choose Business Edge with the Edge Player included. Want screens that run themselves? Add Your Daily Loop for ready-to-play content that refreshes every day.
Try every feature free for 14 days on the TVs you already have, with no credit card. When you’re ready, move to Edge Players for screens that run all day without staff attention.
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It’s using screens at entrances, service desks and meeting rooms to show programs, hours and events, managed from one online dashboard for every branch.
Yes. Create a folder for each branch with its screens under it and give branch staff their own group, while your central team can still push system-wide messages and Broadcasts.
Any TV or monitor with an HDMI port. The Edge Player, included with Business Edge, is a commercial signage player built to run 24/7. Already have a supported device? Display NOW’s other plans run on it with the free Display NOW app.
Yes. Click a slot in the Schedules calendar to show a program before it happens and remove it when it’s over, by branch, day and time. Changes sync to screens within 60 seconds.
Yes. You get 14 days of full access with no credit card. Try it on real screens with real content. Need more time? Just ask and we’ll extend your trial. There's also a free plan for one screen, forever, and a 30-day money-back guarantee on paid plans.
Yes. Set screen-health alert policies with an offline threshold in minutes, and get alerts by email or SMS (US and Canada), or a digest if you prefer fewer messages. The Dashboard shows which screens are online, offline or need attention.
Yes. The Calendar app shows a Google or Microsoft calendar by day, week or month, so your events calendar stays current on screen without retyping it.
Images, videos, PDFs, playlists, Google Slides, PowerPoint, Canva designs, Power BI dashboards, Google Sheets, web pages, YouTube, Vimeo, live weather and news headlines. Design from scratch with the built-in AI designer or start from a template.
No. Display NOW includes a Designer with Generative AI (describe what you want and AI designs it) and ready-made templates. If you already use Canva, the Canva integration saves designs straight to Display NOW in a few clicks. Your team can have professional-looking content ready in minutes, with no design experience or agency needed.
Your screens keep playing. Display NOW stores images, videos and PDFs on the device, so if the internet drops, that content keeps running. Web pages, dashboards and news headlines need a connection and refresh as soon as it’s back. Screens sync any changes automatically when they reconnect.
