Description
Plan, build, and maintain daily and long-range radio/television schedules and playlists. Create and reconcile programming and traffic logs, place promos and spots, and ensure regulatory compliance and on-air continuity. Coordinate with programming, sales, and master control to confirm content availability, resolve conflicts, and adjust schedules in real time during changes or outages.
- • Maintain programming and traffic logs as required by station policy and the FCC.
- • Build daily, weekly, and long-range program schedules and playlists.
- • Place promos, PSAs, legal IDs, and interstitials to meet format clocks.
- • Coordinate spot placement and avails with Sales/Traffic to meet contracts and separation rules.
- • Verify content availability, durations, formats, and rights windows; flag restrictions and blackouts.
- • Monitor playout and as-run data; adjust timing to maintain on-air continuity.
- • Substitute programs or fillers when content fails, overruns, or is preempted.
- • Preview scheduled programs and versions to confirm captions, ratings, and required metadata.
- • Validate EPG listings, episode numbers, and synopses for accuracy.
- • Balance breaks, junctions, and segment lengths to meet format standards.
- • Communicate schedule changes promptly to Master Control, Production, and stakeholders.
- • Generate and distribute daily rundowns, playlists, and discrepancy reports.
- • Reconcile as-run logs against schedules and resolve discrepancies.
- • Ensure schedules comply with FCC, political, children’s, and sponsorship ID rules.
- • Load and publish playlists to automation and playout systems.
- • Coordinate with Engineering and Master Control during outages or maintenance windows.
- • Maintain alternate schedules for time zones, regional feeds, and daylight saving changes.
- • Schedule correct versions for ratings, language, captioning, and descriptive audio requirements.
- • Track and schedule makegoods and adjustments with Sales/Traffic.
- • Update schedules for sports overruns, live events, and emergency programming.
- • Plan stunts, marathons, and promotional roadmaps with Programming and Marketing.
- • Provide forecasts and inventory reports for ad avails and promo time.
- • Train staff and freelancers on scheduling software, workflows, and standards.
- • Collaborate with content providers on delivery timelines and format specifications.
- • Perform QA checks on schedules for timing, conflicts, and regulatory compliance.
- • Configure and maintain scheduling templates, clocks, and rules in traffic systems.
- • Develop and maintain team shift and on-call schedules.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
