Scheduler - Live Sports & Linear Tv
London, United Kingdom
Mid-term scheduling - Liaising with programme planners in territory to establish ideal structure of the week; e.g. Announce times, movie segmentation etc. - Applying break models taking sponsorship and commercial minutage into account. - Adding all non-programme content into the schedules. - Timing the day, aiming for an aligned start time pattern throughout the week. - Using optimal minute planning to ensure the highest possible commercial revenue is achieved. - Planning & scheduling live sports, including the addition of secondary commercial elements & allowing for live ads. - Reacting quickly & accurately to programme additions/changes sent through by the programme planners. Daily scheduling:- Importing commercials sent from territory, checking for correct minutage and sponsorships. - Timing of the schedule, adhering to start times and using promos where needed to help hit these times. - Scheduling of home shopping. - Creating new idents/sports events where needed.- Liaising with other teams including compliance, the copy team and subtitling to ensure the correct programmes & information goes to air. Sports Scheduling:- In addition to the above daily responsibilities, sports scheduling requires the following:- Liaising with the sports planners in territory and reacting to sporting event additions, removals and changes. - Ensuring specific half time durations, live ads, sports bumpers, break times and transmission EXTs are all present and correct depending on the territory and the sport being transmitted. - Send break times to production and the live playout team and make changes where required.