SDS Programming
Seamlessly Manage all of Your Programming with SDS
SDS Programming saves your station time and money by blending together the complex tasks of Program Acquisition, Finance, Scheduling and Play Count Tracking with SDS Traffic to provide Avails, Sales Groups and Programs/Day parts to the Sales Department.
Programming
- Program Contracts
- Content Management
- Video on Demand (VOD)
- Amortization
- Weekly Schedule View
- Theme Scheduling
- Ability to email schedule changes
- Secondary Events
- Automatic scheduling of Interstitial links
- Frame Accurate Cue Sheet Database
- Dynamic Play Count Tracking
- Play History Reports
- Remaining Inventory Reports
- Programming Rules:
- Track corporate targets, such as hours of children’s programming (FCC form 398)
- Track jurisdictional requirements, such as Canada’s CRTC Conditions of License
- HTML Export Function
- Program Financial Tracking and Reporting
- Payment Schedules
- Payment Reports
- TV Guide Export Function
- Entry of Contract obligations for Costing, Plays, Black Out and Exclusivity Periods
- Choose one of six varying types of Amortization for each contract, from Straight Line to complex episode play calculations
- Track third party Productions with payments based on approved conditions being met
- Archive and/or Renew Program Acquisition Contracts
- Program Inventory can be assigned to any or all Networks/Stations, each with their own Play Counts
- Save time with “Drag & Drop” scheduling
- Other Scheduling features include:
- From a single day to a 52 week schedule, create the schedule in less than a minute one-touch Episode assignments
- Real-time play count calculations prevent over plays
- Copy Program Schedules (or part thereof) across multiple Networks
- Copy a Schedule to multiple days within the same network with one operation
- Color coded grid based of user defined genres
- ‘Sales Groups’ provides accurate scheduling to Sales in real-time. Saving time on rebooking contracts
- ‘Play History Reports’ provide various views of your inventory used and/or unused
- Synopsis and TV Guide listing can be printed, exported in multiple formats or posted to your website
- ‘The SDS Library’ area allows for direct upload from your media server to provide frame accuracy to the SDS Logs area
- ‘Library schedule’ views keep the Library aware of what is scheduled real time
- ‘Interstitial Links’ allows for easy scheduling of Interstitial and Filler material throughout your year
- ‘Show Formats’ allow structuring breaks throughout your schedule, to keep on top of how much time (by program) is allotted to advertising, filler, and interstitials
- HTML Export Function
- Program Financial Tracking and Reporting
- Payment Schedules
- Payment Reports
- TV Guide Export Function
- Entry of Contract obligations for Costing, Plays, Black Out and Exclusivity Periods
- Choose one of six varying types of Amortization for each contract, from Straight Line to complex episode play calculations
- Track third party Productions with payments based on approved conditions being met
- Archive and/or Renew Program Acquisition Contracts
- Program Inventory can be assigned to any or all Networks/Stations, each with their own Play Counts
- Save time with “Drag & Drop” scheduling
- Other Scheduling features include:
- From a single day to a 52 week schedule, create the schedule in less than a minute one-touch Episode assignments
- Real-time play count calculations prevent over plays
- Copy Program Schedules (or part thereof) across multiple Networks
- Copy a Schedule to multiple days within the same network with one operation
- Color coded grid based of user defined genres
- ‘Sales Groups’ provides accurate scheduling to Sales in real-time. Saving time on rebooking contracts
- ‘Play History Reports’ provide various views of your inventory used and/or unused
- Synopsis and TV Guide listing can be printed, exported in multiple formats or posted to your website
- ‘The SDS Library’ area allows for direct upload from your media server to provide frame accuracy to the SDS Logs area
- ‘Library schedule’ views keep the Library aware of what is scheduled real time
- ‘Interstitial Links’ allows for easy scheduling of Interstitial and Filler material throughout your year
- ‘Show Formats’ allow structuring breaks throughout your schedule, to keep on top of how much time (by program) is allotted to advertising, filler, and interstitials
Interstitial Links
- Eliminates the need for promo contracts
- Easy scheduling of:
- Promos
- Public Service Announcements
- Station ID
- Secondary Events