# What TVs and Displays does

> Put notices, opening times, coming events, courts, classes and function welcomes on the club's TVs, and choose what each TV shows.

Who this is for: Anyone with “Make and change displays” or “See all bookings” (by default: Administrator, Head Coach, Casual Staff, Sports Convener, Functions, Reporting).
Last checked in release 2026.10.23, on 23 October 2026.
Source: https://sportsclubos.net/help/displays/overview/

TVs and Displays puts things on the club's TVs: notices, opening times, what is coming up, who is on each court, today's classes and a welcome for a function on its night. The club makes **displays** (slide shows) in Sports Club OS, and chooses what each TV shows from there. A TV opens its link once and is left on it. It keeps itself up to date and needs no sign-in.

## Who uses it

- **Making and changing displays, and setting the TVs**: the Administrator, Head Coach, Casual Staff, Functions and Sports Convener roles by default. Anyone who can make displays can change anyone's. Your club can change this on Roles & permissions.
- **Looking at what the TVs can show**: anyone who can see all bookings can also open the **Content** page, open each screen and copy its link, without changing anything.
- **Competition boards** on a TV are for whoever runs competitions (the Sports Convener by default). A screen showing one is changed from Competitions. See [Wallboards and putting a board on a TV](https://sportsclubos.net/help/competitions/boards/index.md).

## Its pages

The menu has Club > TVs and Displays, which opens to two links:

| Link | What it is for |
|---|---|
| **Displays** | The club's physical TVs, each as a card showing what it plays now. Add a screen, give it a link to open on the TV, and choose what it shows. See [Set up a TV and choose what it shows](https://sportsclubos.net/help/displays/set-up-a-tv/index.md). |
| **Content** | Everything a TV can show: **Your displays** (the slide shows made here), **Court bookings** for each sport, **Around the club** (**Classes today** and **Today at the club**), and for people who can see competitions, **Competitions** with each running competition's board and a live scoreboard for each court. **New display** starts a new slide show. |

Opening a display from **Content** shows the display editor, where its slides are made. See [Make a display](https://sportsclubos.net/help/displays/make-a-display/index.md).

## Words it uses

- **Display**: a slide show made in Sports Club OS, with up to 30 slides. It has a link of its own, so it can also be opened on a TV's browser directly.
- **Slide**: one screen of a display. There are seven kinds: **Message**, **Picture**, **Opening times**, **Coming up**, **Courts now**, **Classes today** and **Function welcome**. The last four are **live**: they fill themselves in when the TV asks.
- **Screen**: one of the club's TVs (or iPads), on the **Displays** page, with a link of its own and something chosen for it to show.
- **Board**: a ready-made screen that fills itself in, such as a sport's court board or a competition's draw.

## What it connects to

- **Bookings**: **Courts now** and the court boards show who is on each court, with names as the club's foyer wallboard shows them.
- **Classes**: **Classes today** and **Coming up** read the public class timetable.
- **Competitions**: **Coming up** names a match day and how many matches; the competition boards show draws and live scores.
- **Functions**: a **Function welcome** names a function only once whoever runs functions has switched it on for the club's screens, and only on its day while it is confirmed. See [A function welcome slide](https://sportsclubos.net/help/displays/function-welcome/index.md).

A TV shows nothing more about members than the foyer wallboard already shows, and never a function's prices, hirer or guest details.

## What it does not do

> **Not built yet:** showing a slide only between two dates, video, choosing again from pictures already uploaded (each picture is uploaded from your computer), and a function welcome on a TV before the function's day. See [What is not built yet](https://sportsclubos.net/help/reference/not-built/index.md).

## Articles

- Tasks: [Set up a TV and choose what it shows](https://sportsclubos.net/help/displays/set-up-a-tv/index.md), [Make a display](https://sportsclubos.net/help/displays/make-a-display/index.md), [A function welcome slide](https://sportsclubos.net/help/displays/function-welcome/index.md).
- Competition boards: [Wallboards and putting a board on a TV](https://sportsclubos.net/help/competitions/boards/index.md).
- Setting up a club: [Set up the club's TVs](https://sportsclubos.net/help/setup/tvs/index.md).
- Welcoming a function from the function's own page: [Welcome a function on the club's TVs](https://sportsclubos.net/help/functions/screens/index.md).