Patrick Hurst Email & Phone Number

London, England, United Kingdom

• Liaising with 4Creative and Marketing on any upcoming trail deliveries.• Running the airtime optimisation and campaign booking process throughout the week.• Ensuring breaks and campaigns are exported with correct target information ready for optimisation.• Managing and inputting key pre-optimisation spot requests.• Setting up and managing trails in commercial airtime.• Running inventory audits as well as ad hoc tech projects and system enhancements.• Mediating with 4creative, duty desk and presentation teams on late deliveries and trail replacements.• Coordinating last minute schedule changes with the wider team.• Lead operations point of contact across all of Media Planning’s primary systems – Stellar, CLEAR, Pirate, Monday and TechEdge/IVT2 – to ensure the smooth running of the department’s ongoing workflows.

London, Greater London, United Kingdom

• Planning and Scheduling Manager for Viasat’s Epic Drama drama channel.• Helped steer the channel to some of its highest ratings ever, assisting in turning around the channel’s fortunes.• Developed and executed the planning and scheduling strategy across Epic’s linear and VOD channels.• Managed and developed long-term planning across both linear and streaming.• Planning and scheduling the delivery of VOD content across all necessary third party platforms.• Entered channel plans into Provys scheduling system and released monthly schedules.• Regular analysis of audience data and competitor channels that guide strategy and performance.• Managed the programming inventory, maximised ROI and identified content trends.• Ensuring the timely release of the monthly schedules and highlights.• Identified, screened, and evaluated new content proposals.• Managed a team of Planning and Scheduling Executives and Coordinators.• Provided guidance on promo priorities and placements.• Reviewed and provided constructive feedback for promos, presentation, and on-air navigation.

London, United Kingdom

Overseeing the programme planning of Viasat World's Explore channel across CEE and Poland regions.• Executing the planning strategy set by the Head of Planning and Planning Manager for Viasat Explore Poland and CEE.• Entering plans into BSS and release monthly schedules.• Responsibile for the timely release of the plans.• Ensuring all planning is in line with local regulatory guidelines.• Processing schedule changes and informing all stakeholders.• Monitoring inventories and usage of runs.• Creating channel highlights on a monthly basis and ensuring that marketing documents are kept up-to-date.• Point of contact for the scheduling team, compliance, traffic, play out and all other departments regarding any day to day issues that arise.• Dealing with day-to-day programming enquiries.• Attend meetings and perform other duties as and when required.• Working closely with Programming and Acquisitions to keep on top of content incomings and any issues that may arise.• Viewing and assessing new content proposed for the channel.• Running and analysing viewing numbers for both Explore Polsat and channel competitors on Arianna and sending out regular ratings updates.

London, United Kingdom

• Manager of Together (formally Community Channel) - a factual and fact-ent-focused television channel, dedicated to socially aware and inspiring content; broadcasting nationwide via Freeview, Sky, Virgin and Freesat.• Responsible for the channel's acquisitions and content planning strategy, as well as the scheduling and the on-air presentation.• Managing the channel’s programme and media planning. I have led a complete overhall of the channel’s output, shifting focus to more viewer-friendly, audience driven content.• Due to a smart and effective content planning strategy I have helped take Community Channel to it's healthiest level for 16 years, both in audience and content quality. We regularly hitting over a million unique monthly viewers and boasting a ‘Community Channel Originals’ catalogue of ground breaking factual and fact-ent content.• I’ve led the channel into a new era of commissioning original content; working closely with filmmakers and production companies to bring exciting, one of a kind programming to a wide audience.• I have played a key part in the origination and planning of ground-breaking shows like The Memory Team (a factual series telling the stories of those suffering from dementia) an Walking with the Wounded – Run the Sahara (inspiring doc centring on injured ex-servicement running the gruelling • Running and analysing BARB audience reports using TNS reporting software on a regular basis.• Preparing regular channel highlight documents, sent out both internally and externally to press and via viewer newsletters.

White City, London

• Working across the channel, digital and marketing teams to agree a manageable, high impact schedule for the television platform and to deliver a forward plan.• Developing programming blocks, strands and stunts.• Liaising closely with the online team to ensure the TV schedule fits online plans and coordinate on-demand scheduling.• Managing, training and supervising interns and volunteers.• Managing the scheduling department• Creating and delivering daily presentation schedules.• Ensuring that all scripts for promos are written and delivered on time and working closely with the traffic editors in the completion of all on-air promotional material.

White City, London

• Creating and delivering daily presentation schedules using Zeus scheduling system, ensuring transmission schedules adhere to all Ofcom regulations.• Overseeing and processing the delivery of EPG and listings data to all platforms.• Creating weekly make-lists that cover campaigns, trails, on-screen graphics, trafficking, and edit/break patterns. • Working with Sky Media to ensure ads are delivered on time.• Solving transmission problems, ensuring that all delivered materials are in correct formats/time durations/slots.• Sending daily transmission logs and asruns, checking monthly TNS reports that have been delivered and processed.

London, United Kingdom

• Compiling commercial sales logs and entering commercial campaigns as per the client’s request.• Making sure programmes, and their commercial breaks, air correctly and in accordance with Ofcom.• Scheduling promotions and completing 24-hour transmission schedules for several different regions.• Liaising with agencies to ensure commercial copy is received and edited for air in good time.• Reconciling days, ensuring make-goods are given to any commercials that did not run correctly.• Advising the Sales team on availability for orders not yet confirmed.• Working with scheduling system Focus Perspective and content management system FORK on a daily basis.• Setting up contracts and booking in campaigns for different feeds.• Creating programmes, promotions and commercials in scheduling system.• Liaising with News, Sales, Promotions, Editing, Programming, and Transmission departments daily.• Working within a busy 24-hour news environment with strict deadlines and often having to adjust schedules to any last minute changes. Such an environment calls for an extremely flexible approach to working hours as unforeseen events, such as breaking news, can often call for employees to work above and beyond contracted hours.

London, United Kingdom

• Working as part of the extremely busy dispatch/library department.• Dealing with incoming and outgoing material.• Conversing with the company’s many clients (including the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Five).• Liaising with other departments (subtitling, audio description and VT) to ensure the smooth running of all areas.• Working under the pressure with transmission material and working to strict deadlines.• Collecting and distributing material as per client and staff requests.• Having working knowledge of all areas of the library.• Bar coding and logging all raw stock• Using the company’s media management systems (Systel and Mediaflex).• Delivering and distributing material in and around London via the company’s van when needed.

Bachelor'S Degree, Film/Cinema/Video Studies, 2:1

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