About every quarter it is a good idea to remove any expired media from the server in order to free up space. There are three main steps involved in doing this. 1. Identifying Expired media in ProTrack, 2. Deleting Expired Media, and 3. Updating the ProTrack Media to Purged to reflect that the show has been purged … Read more
There are a few reasons you may want to copy multiple air dates from one day or time to another day or time. One example is after you have rippled-out a schedule and you have several blocks that are still blank (that need to be copied from the previous week). See below for an example: … Read more
The meat of the schedule for 360 North is done in the prime-time block which goes from 2000 – 2300. Once you’ve filled in that block for a given week, it is easy to fill in most of the most of the rest of the schedule using the template feature. Below are the steps involved … Read more
The Program Highlights Report is helpful for generating a schedule of programs for a given time period that have program descriptions associated with it (from which TONIGHT rundowns can be generated). Below are the steps involved to do this: From the ProTrack main menu, select Programs | Program Reports | Daily Program Listings | Program … Read more
You may want to run a 360 North Grid report either for your personal reference, or this is the report that is sent each week to Rovi & others from which the PBS schedule is created. Below describes the steps involved in doing that. From the ProTrack main menu, select Programs | Program Reports | Weekly … Read more
To export Ingest (Record) lists from ProTrack to the Harmonic Polaris:Play Ingest program, there are three main steps. 1. Running a Feed Date Search report to verify that what is sent to Harmonic is what should have been. 2. Exporting the Harmonic BXF Record-List. 3. Verifying the Exported list in Polaris: Play Ingest. 1. Running … Read more