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.

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.

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.

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.
• 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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