Portland Community Media, in partnership with Denver Open Media, has created documents explaining the rules of scheduling Producer> Project> Programs. The document includes rules for series programs, scheduled on a quarterly basis, as well as individual programs that get scheduled on a first come, first served basis.
I have also included rules on how PCM schedules filler programs.
The focus of this discussion is:
- to communicate current scheduling rules and guidelines
- to discuss other methods of annual, quarterly or daily scheduling rules used by other media centers
- to discuss how themes or blocks are being used and how beneficial they have been to the scheduling process
I will currently be including the rules structures as PDF attachments and in the future would be happy to share information and provide more details on the current Portland Community Media scheduling model.
| Attachment | Size |
|---|---|
| Individual Program Scheduling Rules.pdf | 65.71 KB |
| Series Program Scheduling Rules.pdf | 92.72 KB |
| Filler Rules.pdf | 56.4 KB |
Comments
Time blocks with little local programming?
Interesting, thanks for sharing! Although I represent a small, Swedish public access channel, I suspect there are small channels in the US too. I've got a few questions in response to the above:
I find the idea of time blocks interesting, but also quite difficult for a small channel with 0-2 new programs a day, with time varying from 5 minutes to 1.5 hours or so.
Thanks!
/Daniel, Open Channel Vaxjo, Sweden