1: Print Program Offers Enter in Codes at This Time Or Write Them on Offer and Hand

# 1: print program offers enter in codes at this time or write them on offer and hand off to traffic person/intern to enter in Topic or Topic 2 in Program Offer section in Protrack

#2: if you are an overnight market, enter in primetime ratings for the day before (no quarter hours, just over program rating) in Maintenance/Overnight Ratings section in Protrack

PROGRAM CODES

Most general category, only need to apply to one in a series and the entire series gets changed to this code – able to go into broadcast logs – broadcast logs reports – program Performance – print a report that gives you a percentage of genres that make up your yearly schedule – board members like this, can easily make pie charts from this info. When viewers/ board members/ GMs complain we air too many movies or Britcoms, I can print this report and it shows that public affairs/news makes up 30% of our schedule with another 25% kids. Britcoms and movies only make up 4% each of our yearly schedule

Adventure/Travel

Arts (non-performance)

Comedy

Drama

Economy/Business

GC – General Kids

Health/Medicine

HS – History

HT – How To

MO – Movie

Nature

PA – News/Public Affairs

Performing Arts

Pop Culture

Science/Technology

Sports

TOPIC and TOPIC 2 CODES

On the program offer page right below Program Type you can be even more specific as to type of program. This is most useful for the person who has to do FCC reports. But I also use this when I want a list of acquisitions available, disabled programs (October is Disabled Month), war docs, women (for Women’s History Month). This helps me when I’m trying to pair like minded programs (flow). You can use either field.

ACQ – Acquisition (easier to keep track of all acquisitions in rights)

AD – Adventure/Travel

AR – Arts (non-performance)

BR – British (and Royalty)

CK – Cooking

CN – Cancer

CO – Comedy

DA – Dance

DI – Disabled/Handicapped

DR – Drama

EC – Economics/Business

ED – Education/Schools

EM – Employment/Unions

EN – Environment

GA – Gardening

HE – Health Issues/Healthcare

HI - Hispanic/Latino
HM – Home Improvement

HS – History

JW – Jewish

LOC – Local

MU – Music

NA – Nature

OP – Opera

PN – Painting

RE – Religion/Ethics/Philosophy

SC – Science/Technology

SQ – Sewing/Quilting

WO – Women

WR – War/Veterans/Military

STATION DEFINED

Shows for a specific month (heritage months, holidays). I print this report before I schedule the month in question so I can see what I’ve got available to me for broadcast.

AFZ – African American

ASZ – Asian Pacific

GLZ – Gay/Lesbian

HIZ – Latino

JWZ – Jewish

NTZ – Native American

APZ – April

AUZ – August

DEZ – December

FEZ – February

JAZ – January

JNZ – June

JUZ – July

MAZ – May

MRZ – March

NOZ – November

OCZ – October

SEZ – September

TOOLS / GENRE

When you are in a program record, click on Tools (upper left) and select Genre, this is where I code 30 minute programs, HD/Wide programs, independent docs, and KQED productions, then you are able to go into Programs (upper left) – select Program Search – select Scheduling Search. This allows me to do a number of reports – how much KQED programming makes up the entire schedule (with repeats – 10%); what ½ hour shows I have available to me if I have a hole to fill.

45 minutes or less

Independent

KQED