We experience a continuously growing number of public displays deployed in a diverse range of settings. Often these displays contain a variety of full-screen content for the audience that is organized by a scheduler application. However, such public display systems often miss to communicate their full set of content and features, neither do they hint schedule information. In this paper, we present and describe a timer control we implemented in our public display applications to communicate schedule and application information to the audience, which allows to manage expectations and anticipation around public displays. We also report initial insights from studies about how this kind of design features supported the audience in engaging with the public displays.