non-windows broadcast apps (Score 1)

Yes there are multiple alternate OS broadcast applications. I'm president of one of them, Building4Media. An associate mentioned this thread. We have about 65 of our 160 tv networks running our automation platform using the Mac platform, for example. Many of these are major networks (CNN, NFL, CSTV, BBC World Services etc.) There are other providers of non-windows systems as well. Note that we find the Mac broadcast applications usually have some PCs around, for example doing news (ENPS/iNews etc) so cross platform operation has some advantages. For your simple schedule processing playout application, several non-windows systems can apply.