BTV Service data model

Name	Type	Description	Localised	Always available
`_id`	String	Internal identifier for the object.	No	Yes
`active`	Boolean	Whether the channel is active.	No	Yes
`CarryingNetwork`	Array of strings	List of values representing the list of DVB triplets linked to this channel. The decimal value calculation according to DVB triplet is customer dependent.	No	Yes
`catchUpSupport`	Boolean	Whether the operator supports catch-up events on this channel.	No	Yes
`Categories`	Array of strings	A list of keywords classifying the content of the channel. CMS supports these keywords: `Action` `Action-Adventure` `Adult` `Adventure` `Children` `Comedy` `Documentary` `Drama` `EnEspanol` `Family` `Horror` `International` `Kids-Family` `Library` `NewRelease` `Romance` `ScienceFiction` `SciFi-Horror` `Sport` `Suspense` `Suspense-Thriller` `ThreeDayRental` `Thriller` `Uncensored` `War`	No	No
`companyId`	String	The ID of the broadcaster company to which the channel is attached. This field is not required, but the CMS always populates it.	No	No
`Description`	String	A description of the channel, from the CMS Service EPG key `Description`.	Yes	No
`drmInstanceName`	String	A name that uniquely identifies the DRM system that manages access to this channel. For channels protected by CAS (not DRM), this attribute is not present.	No	No
`drmId`	String	The identifier of the channel used by the DRM system that managies access to this channel. Values of `drmId` will only be unique within a particular DRM instance. A `drmId` value will always be present when a `drmInstanceName` value is supplied. For channels protected by CAS (not DRM), this attribute is not present.	No	No
`id`	String	The CMS's identifier for the object.	No	Yes
`locale`	String	The locale used for the object's localisable fields.	No	No
`longName`	String	The channel’s long name, for example, `“The Biography Channel”`. This field is not required, but the CMS always populates it. This field is not localised. Multi-language clients should use the `Title` field instead.	No	No
`NetworkLocation`	String	The location of the A/V stream of the channel on the network. For adaptive streaming, this will be the channel's URL. In case of Harmonic OS, the value must be of the form: `http://<delivery-ip>/Content/ HLS/Live/Channel(<channel-name>) /index.m3u8`	No	No
`PrivateMetadata`	String	Used to pass data directly from the operator to the end-user device without any CMS/SDP processing. One possible use is to pass a list of keyword/value pairs, separated by semi-colons.	No	No
`profileRef`	String	The identifier of the profile that applies to this channel.	No	No
`PromoImages`	Array of strings	A list of promo image URLs for the channel. The Metadata Server does not validate the format of this field’s value, and does not attempt to access the URLs to verify the existence of the image files.	No	No
`productRefs`	Array of strings	A list of the IDs of the products that offer this channel.	No	No
`provider`	String	The identifier of the metadata provider, from the `id` of the export's `CMSBtvData` element.	No	Yes
`Rating.code`	String	Parental rating code (from CMS).	No	Yes
`Rating.precedence`	Integer	Quantitative rating value.	No	Yes
`Rating.name`	String	Localised name for the rating, for example, `Adult` or `Adulto`.	Yes	Yes
`shortName`	String	A short name for the channel, or its call letters.	No	No
`startOverSupport`	Boolean	Whether the operator supports start-over events on this channel.	No	Yes
`Title`	String	The full name of the channel. The CMS mandates that this field will be populated for at least one locale-form of each channel.	Yes	No
`tvChannel`	Integer	The channel number to be presented to the end user.	No	Yes
`type`	String	Present on an editorial channel. If the channel originates from the CMS ingest this will be set to `BTV`.	No	Yes
`xml`	String	The type of object. Always `editorial`.	No	Yes
`nls.Title`	String	Native language support for the title field. Allows correct sorting for a language, rather than relying on utf-8 ordering for sort.	Yes	No