Toll Brothers-Metropolitan Opera
International Radio Network
DRAFT Cue Sheet (as of 1/05/17)
LA BOHÈME (Puccini)
BROADCAST DATE: January 14, 2017 1:00 p.m.
FORMAT TIME SCHEDULE SEGMENT TIME TOTAL TIME
OPENING 1:00:00 - 1:06:30 AM, ET 6:30 6:30
ACT I 1:06:30 - 1:42:30 PM, ET 36:00 1:00:00
Act Change Pause 1:42:30 - 1:46:30 PM, ET 4:00
ACT II 1:46:30 - 2:06:30 PM, ET 20:00
FIRST INTERMISSION 2:06:30 - 2:38:30 PM, ET 32:00
Station Break Cue: “This is the Toll Brothers-Metropolitan Opera International Radio Network”
STATION BREAK 2:08:15 - 2:09:30 PM, ET 1:15 3:15
(2 second pause)
AD BREAK/Feature#1 2:09:32 - 2:11:32 PM, ET 2:00
Ad Break/Feature Out-cue: “These are just some memorable moments that catch fire in opera."[music]
INTERMISSION FEATURES – Opera Quiz
Cue for Ad Break/Feature #2: “Coming up soon, Act II of Giacomo Puccini’s La Bohème, live from the Met.
Stay with us.”
AD BREAK/Feature #2 2:30:12 – 2:32:12 PM, ET 2:00 2:00
Ad Break/Feature Out-cue: “TBA”
ACT III 2:38:30 – 3:04:30 PM, ET 26:00
SECOND INTERMISSION 3:04:30 – 3:29:30 PM, ET 25:00
Station Break Cue: “This is the Toll Brothers-Metropolitan Opera International Radio Network”
STATION BREAK 3:06:00 – 3:07:15 PM, ET 1:15 3:15
(2 second pause)
AD BREAK/Feature #3 3:07:17 – 3:09:17 PM, ET 2:00
Ad Break/Feature out cue: “Roméo et Juliette, next Saturday’s broadcast, live from the Met.”
INTERMISSION FEATURE –Interviews
ACT IV 3:29:30 – 3:59:30 PM, ET 30:00 30:00
CLOSING 3:59:30 – 4:06:00 PM, ET 6:30 6:30 Closing Cue: “This is the Toll Brothers-Metropolitan Opera International Radio Network”
OFF THE AIR 4:06:00 PM, ET
**Feature runs while commercial stations break away for advertising. Note: Outcues may change. Be sure to check for format that will arrive at your station Friday before the broadcast.
Please report any transmission problems immediately to the Met Radio Booth at 212-496-7261.
STATION BREAKS:
Each station break is 1-minute-15 seconds (00:01:15).
TWO AND THREE MINUTE AD BREAKS/FEATURES
We have created two and three minute features of non-commercial material that air during ad breaks where some stations may cut away from the broadcast to run local commercials or recognize local underwriters and then you can just return to the opera broadcast immediately following each station break. If your station is NOT running commercials or underwriting, the broadcast continues with pre-recorded features.
Operas with one intermission will have a two-minute ad break/feature immediately following the station break and later in the intermission a three-minute break/feature. Operas with two intermissions will have a two-minute break/feature following the station break and another two-minute break/feature later in the intermission during the first intermission and a two-minute break/feature following the station break in the second intermission (no second break in the second intermission). Operas with no intermission will have a two minute break in the opening.
TRANSMISSION:
STATIONS CONNECTED TO THE CONTENT DEPOT – Please be sure that your station has signed up for each Saturday broadcast. You can do this all at once for the whole season. If you are not signed up for each program you will not receive the broadcasts.
TRANSMISSION TROUBLE REPORTING PROCEDURES
If any transmission problems occur during the opera on Saturday, contact the NPR Content Depot help line if your station is a subscriber. Ifthe station is not subscribed to the Content Depot, switch to our back up streamingservice at www.metopera.org/networknews and call the Met Radio Booth immediately at 212-496-7261 for assistance. If you are a Content Depot user and you are experiencing any problems during the prior week, you can call NPR (202-513-2600) no later than Friday to set-up an ISDN feed that you can call into on Saturday.
PROMOS: Weekly promos will be available at both the content depot and www.metopera.org/networknews at least by Thursday, nine days in advance of each broadcast. Generic promos are also posted on Content Depot and www.metopera.org/networknews.
AUTOMATION RELAYS FOR RADIO STATIONS INTERCONNECTED WITH CONTENT DEPOT: For each 00:01:15 STATION BREAK, use Cue #3 (station ID); for end of broadcast use Cue #4 (end of show)
AUTOMATION CONTACT CLOSURES FOR NON CONTENT DEPOT USERS
CLOSURE #1indicatesa1:15 STATION BREAK. This will occur at the beginning of the station break(s) in the first intermission and second intermission.CLOSURE#2 indicates end of broadcast.