Once a year (or every three months or so) it is more efficient to add a year or a few months worth of weather feeds and air dates (when you schedule the air dates it will automatically insert program records). If done at the same time, it takes a little longer every year or three months, but it is worth the time investment for the rest of your schedules.
There are three main processes that you need to do, below are the specific steps and information with each process. 1. Add Multiple Feed Dates, 2. Schedule Multiple Air Dates (which will create a new season and the appropriate records), and 3. Add and attach media for each.
1. Add Multiple Feed Dates
Type Programs | Feed Date Maintenance | Add Multiple Feed Dates
You will be presented with a dialogue to ask which series to add, you’ll enter AKWEA in the Series code.
Select Alaska Weather Daily as it is presented in the dialogue.
Once you’ve selected it and the correct season for which you will be adding, you’ll want to add the following information to the dialogue.
- put the Starting Feed Date (the next date in the schedule for which you don’t have any feed dates entered).
- Feed Time: 17:30:01:02
- Starting Program Number (enter the very next number for which you do not have any feeds entered).
- Ending Program (I generally do about 90 – 100 at a time). Here I did 100. By entering in the ending program, it automatically enters the Total Feeds to Schedule as well as the Starting Order in Season number.
- Next select Source: KAKM-RX E < KAKM
- Be sure to put Y in for Record?
- Put Y Y Y Y Y Y Y in for EVERY DAY.
Is data correct? Answer Yes.
Do you want to continue? Answer Yes again.
Now that you have scheduled the feeds for each weather for the next n days, you’ll want to go ahead and schedule them, followed by adding and attaching the media for them.
2. Schedule Multiple Air Dates
From the main menu select Programs | Air Date Maintenance | Add Air Multiple Air Dates
In the Select Series dialogue enter AKWEA and press OK.
This will bring up the Multiple Air Date Entry with ALASKA WEATHER DAILY information entered. Verify the following fields:
- Channel: KTOO – 360 North
- Create Series Episodes Y (**IMPORTANT IF YOU HAVEN’T ALREADY ADDED NEW SEASON/EPISODES)
- Starting Air Date: (Enter the next date for which you do not have scheduled for air)
- Starting Air Time: 18:30:00:00
- Starting Episode Number: (Enter the next episode for which you do not have scheduled for air)
- Ending Episode Number: (Enter the last episode number for which you are scheduling during this batch)
- Y Y Y Y Y Y Y for EVERY DAY of the week
Once you’ve done that press OK. You should be presented with a confirmation dialogue confirming that Air Dates have been inserted.
You have now added the Feed Dates and Air Dates it is now necessary to add Media and Attach it for the appropriate amount of time. You can do this for everything at one time, or do a week at a time. I typically do as many as I can stand to do at one time.
4. Attach Media
To attach the media, one of the fastest ways to do it, is to first do a feed date search, then go down through each one and add the media.
From the main menu select Programs | Program Search Menu | Feed Date Search
Once you have the Feed Date Search dialogue up, enter the following data:
Dates for which you are wanting to search.
Record Date? Y
Feed Source: KAKM – RX < KAKM
Program Code: AKWEA
Once the list is up, you will see that there is no media attached for each of the records. To add media highlight the first record in the list and do the following.
From the Feed Date Search Results dialogue, press Tools | Media Info (F1). You will get a Media Information dialogue with no media in the list. To add a piece of media do the following.
From the Media Information menu select, Edit | Insert (F1) and set the following fields:
- Start by: Record Date
- End by: Last Air + 1
- Link Type: Server
- Then press OK.
Once the Add Media Attachment dialogue is up, verify that the Media ID is correct and that the Duration is 00:27:38:00. If correct, press OK, Yes to is the Data Correct? dialogue. Then press the X in the upper right corner of the dialogue or press Ctrl+F4 to close the Media Information dialogue.
Move your selection down as you go repeating the steps above (F1, F1, OK, OK, Yes, CTRL+F4, Down) as you go down the list, verify that the Attached Media column populates with the appropriate media IDs. Yes, it is incredibly repetitive and tedious, but you only do it every three months or so :).
