Chapter 5 - Log Templates - Natural Broadcast Systems
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1. lt a Log Templates iof x File Edit Tools Help O amp 4 gt D D x x New Template Print Edit Line Insert Blank s Insert Break Insert 1 Avail Delete Line s Help Close Station Log Template Type Special Event Name Pgm Length DEMO AM x Special Event 7 Hs Football 01 x fo3 00 00 z 1 0001 RATTLERS FOOTBALL PREGAME 15 00 00 02 00 PREGAME SPONSOR 00 08 00 PREGAME SPONSOR 1 00 12 00 PREGAME SPONSOR 1 00 15 00 RATTLERS FOOTBALL 00 25 00 GAME SPONSOR 00 35 00 GAME SPONSOR 00 45 00 GAME SPONSOR 00 55 00 GAME SPONSOR 01 05 00 GAME SPONSOR 01 15 00 GAME SPONSOR These Special Event Templates have the same formatting as regular Log Templates except Q They apply to less than a full day Q The Log Template time column is elapsed time since the start of the Special Event Q They may be scheduled to replace the regular Log template for a specified period of time on a given date and time See Special Event Scheduling in section 3 10 During the period these Special Events Templates are scheduled the regular Log Template for the day is not used Q Order lines may be linked to the Special Event Template so the order line runs anytime the special event is scheduled NOTE NL8 allows scheduling a Special Events Template to start at a time and with a length that causes it to continue past 11 59 59 PM However the past midnight events will appear after the2. Basis for New log Template Choose if you want to create a new blank Log Template or a new Template using a copy of the open existing Log Template as the basis for the new Log Template Station Select the station to which the Log Template belongs Template Type Select which type of Template you want to create Q Normal Daily Log Select the day Q Special Date Select the date Q Other Log Select a unique name Q Special Event Template Select a unique name See the definition of these log template types in the glossary of terms in Chapter 12 Natural Log User Manual Page 5 3 5 01 Editing Log Templates To access the Log Template Editor from the main NL8 menu select Logs then the Template Type you want to work with You can then use the drop down boxes to select the Station Log Template Type the specific Log Template and the hour to be displayed 244 Log Templates e x File Edit Tools Help k x D amp g y New Template Insert Line Delete Line Edit Line Insert Break Single Avail Print Help Close Station Log Template Type Log Template Name Log Hour DEMO AM x Normal Daily Log x Monday 7 08 00 4M x 1 0801 8 00 00 AM NA News Adjacency 8 00 00 4M LOCAL NEWS Local Commercial Break NS News Sponsorship Local Le NS News Sponsorship Local 8 05 00 AM Commercial Break 60 NS News Sponsorship Local he NS News Sponsorship Local 8 07 00 AM NA News Adjacency Local 8 09 00 AM p WA Weather A
3. DEM0 AM Normal Daily Log x Wednesday 7 12 00 AM x Even Scheduled Time Event Description Length Avail Restriction Fill Priority Fill Code Source 1 12 17 00 AM amp T hhmm Voice Track 12 17 004M Commercial Break xA 12 20 00 AM amp wxihh 12 30 00 AM amp MyWay DayNum My Way program 12 37 00 AM Commercial Break 12 40 004M amp A4BCD mmdd Page 5 14 Natural Log User Manual
4. of the required entries i Edit Log Format Line iof x Maximum Spots in Break Event Type Start Commercial Break Avail fi x Scheduled Time Formatted as 11 00 00 AM Description Commercial Break Length A Avail Type Restriction ii New Avail Type Fill Priority Fill Code H a E Source Local ha Save aoe Insert Stand Alone Commercial Avails For a stand alone commercial avail if you enter a length NL8 will always use only that length If you don t care about the length leave it blank If you need to force an avail to be filled enter Mandatory for the Fill Code Enter Source as Local or Network See section 5 02 for more details of the required entries w Edit Log Format Line Iof x Event Type Stand Alone Avail Scheduled Time I a Formatted as 11 00 00 AM Description X Length E Avail Type Restriction bd New Avail Type Fill Priority d Fill Code H W E Source Local Es Save ona Natural Log User Manual Page 5 9 5 03 Copying Log Templates To access the Log Template Editor from the main NL8 menu select Logs then the Template Type you want to work with You can then use the drop down boxes to select the Station Log Template Type the Specific Log Template and the hour to be displayed Copy an Entire Log Template To copy an entire Log Template open the Log Template to be copied from and click File Copy Template and select the Lo
5. or skeleton logs are used by NL8 so that it will know where you want commercial avails programs text and automation commands to appear on your log Each station has its own set of Log Templates Ata minimum there must be a Normal Daily Log Template for weekday Monday Sunday Normal Daily Log Templates You must have one Log Template for each weekday Monday Sunday for each station These are used by Natural Log as the default Log Template when generating logs for the respective day unless it finds a Special Date Log Template for the date for which a log is being generated See Creating New Log Templates Special Date Log Templates Occasionally you may need to use a Special Log Template instead of your regular daily log format for only one day The easiest way to do this is to open the Normal Daily Log Template for the day and copy it to a Special Date Log Template for the date You can then make any changes in that new Special Date Log Template that will not affect the Normal Daily Log Template On the specified date only that Special Date Log Template will automatically be used in place of the Normal Daily Log Template Creating New Log Templates Natural Log User Manual Page 5 1 Chapter 5 Log Templates Special Events Templates These are partial day Log Templates useful for stations that run programming that often changes times and days such as sports programming See Creating New Log Templates
6. use the next date rather than the log date You can use multiple formats on the same text line if you enclose each in separate brackets mmddyyyy mmddyy mmdd ddmmyyyy ddmm yymmdd yyddmm yyyymmdd yyyyddmm mmm 3 Character month abbreviation mmmm Full month name dd 2 digit day of month Day Abbreviated day name Mon Tue Wed etc DayNum The of the day of week 1 Mon 7 Sun hh hhmm hhmmss dhhmm dhhmmss HHH or HH or AA or FF HH or d where yy and yyyy indicates 2 or 4 digit year mm indicates 2 digit month dd indicates 2 digit day of month hh indicates hour mm indicates minutes in the hour ss indicates seconds in the minute d indicates day in week Monday is day 1 Sunday is day 7 HHHH to indicates a sequential event counter padded to the requisite number of digits with O s This means each time NM5 sees one of these commands it increases by 1 for each time it is used in that day s log and left pads to at least the requisite number of digits with O s If the event counter requires more digits than allowed within the all digits are displayed Example with event counter 99 becomes amp 99 d or d indicates the same counter with a day number preceding it See examples on next page Natural Log User Manual Page 5 13 5 05 Auto Inserting Date Time Text amp Automation Commands in Log templates Example 1 Suppose you wan
7. 11PM hour in the log for the date on which in Special Event began This MAY create unwanted results in your automation system particularly if there are any timed events in the template that occur past midnight Other Log Templates You can you save templates under a different name for later use For example you might save the Friday Normal Daily Log Template as Other Log Template named Friday Old Then you can edit the Friday Normal Daily Log Template to add some more commercial breaks for a heavy advertising period Later when you want to revert to the original Friday Log Template open the Friday Old Other Log Template and copy it back to the Friday Normal Daily Log Template See Creating New Log Templates Page 5 2 Natural Log User Manual 5 01 Creating New Log Templates To access the Log Template Editor from the main NL8 menu select Logs then the Template Type you want to work with You can then use the drop down boxes to select the Station Log Template Type the Specific Log Template and the hour to be displayed In the Log Template Editor click File then New to create a new Log Template w Create New Log Template Of x m Basis for New Log Format Create a new BLANK Log Template mi Make a Copy of the EXISTING Log Template Create DEMO AM Normal Daily Log Monday New Log Format R Station DEMO AM hd Help Log Template Type Normal Daily Log Log Template for Day 11m ET
8. Chapter 5 Log Templates To access the Log Template Editor from the main NL8 menu select Logs then the Template Type you want to work with You can then use the drop down boxes to select the Station Log Template Type the Specific Log Template and the hour to be displayed 4 Log Templates e x File Edit Tools Help k x D amp x New Template Insert Line Delete Line Edit Line Insert Break Single Avail Print Help Close Station Log Template Type Log Template Name Log Hour JDEMO AM x Normal Daily Log x Monday 7 08 00 AM x 1 0801 8 00 00 AM NA News Adjacency 8 00 00 AM LOCAL NEWS j Local Commercial Break 60 NS News Sponsorship Local caji NS News Sponsorship Local 8 05 00 AM Commercial Break 60 NS News Sponsorship Local ai NS News Sponsorship Local 8 07 00 AM E NA News Adjacency Local 8 09 00 AM 30 WA Weather Adjacen Local 8 10 00 AM WEATHER Local E WS Weather Spnsrshi Local 8 12 00 AM PLAYER OF THE WEEK Local 8 12 00 AM g 60 PS Prgm Sponsorship Local 8 12 00 AM a 60 PS_ Prgm Sponsorship Local 8 22 00 AM Commercial Break 5 Local is Local Local Local 8 24 00 4M SOUTH TEXAS DIGEST Network x xA 8 36 00 AM s PS Pram Sponsorship Local 8 38 00 AM Commercial Break Local a Local Local 8 39 00 AM t 30 WA Weather Adjacen Local 0 40 00 AKA VWiCATUCD Lanal a What Are Log Templates Log Templates
9. aily Log Monday AtEvent Start Time Duration End Time 8 07 00 AM z 03 00 00 11 07 00 AM Cancel Q Enter the Special Event start time and end time Q Click Insert The Special Event Template will be pasted into the Log Template starting at the selected event All existing Log Template events between the Special Event start and end times will be removed Page 5 12 Natural Log User Manual 5 05 Auto Inserting Date Time Text amp Automation Commands in Log templates You may place date and or time specific text items and automation commands into your log templates and the dates are inserted per the date time format you use Rather than create new log templates for every date if you need date specific items of text or automation commands you can let NL8 auto insert the date and or time for you into the log template Example Suppose you want to schedule an audio cut on your Automation system which you name ABCD followed by the month and date The audio cut to be played on Nov 28 would be ABCD1128 You can enter amp ABCD mmdd in the Event Description column of the log template as shown at event 0019 on the next page The following date time formats are accepted The brackets are required NL8 will automatically substitute the appropriately formatted date time in place of these text strings You may put a space and a description after the date time items You can add NEXT after any date string to
10. ak Length z oo x Avail Type Restriction x New Avail Type Fill Priority 2 x W x Save Cancel Log Template Event Description Fill Code x The Event Description column of Log Templates may contain the following items If it is blank NL8 will print a Source Local blank line for proper spacing between other log items Q Text NL8 will print whatever text you enter for this event description on the Log when it is generated Q Automation Command These always start with amp See automation for information on entering commands for your specific automation system Also see Auto Inserting Date Time in Text amp Automation Commands in Log templates in section 5 05 of this manual Q tells NL8 that this is a stand alone commercial avail If you enter a length for the avail the computer will assume that the commercial must be that exact length Otherwise leave the length blank Q indicates that this event is the start of a commercial break also known as stop set or cluster of 2 or more commercials to be scheduled together Each on consecutive events after this event is considered part of this commercial break You may set a Maximum Length for commercial breaks by entering the length on the event at which the set begins Q indicates an avail which is part of a commercial break Q Sign ON Sign OFF NL8 assumes you are on the air 24 hours unless you enter Sign ON as the event descri
11. djacen Local 8 10 00 AM WEATHER i Local a WS Weather Spnsrshi Local 8 12 004M PLAYER OF THE WEEK Local 8 12 00 AM PS Pram Sponsorship Local 8 12 00 AM i PS Pram Sponsorship Local 8 22 00 AM Commercial Break Local am Local Local Local 8 24 00 AM SOUTH TEXAS DIGEST Network ara x 8 36 00 AM a PS Pram Sponsorship Local 8 38 00 AM Commercial Break Local ai Local Local 8 39 00 AM s WA Weather Adjacen Local 9 40 00 AKA WilATUCD Lansl To edit or enter an individual Log Template event double click the event You can also Right click on the Log Template to access an Edit Menu that allows you to Cut and Paste event lines to and from the Log Template and the ClipBoard Append Line Insert Blank Line s Insert PageBreak to force NL8 to start a new page when printing the log Insert Commercial Break See section 5 02 Insert Stand Alone Avail See section 5 02 Insert Special Event Template See section 5 04 Mass Changer to paste all or part of one Log Template into another Log Template See section 5 03 OOoOooooo Note Regarding Log Template Event Numbers Log Template event numbers do not correspond to time except that the first 2 digits indicate the hour in which the event occurs Example Event 0810 is simply the 10th event in the 8 o clock AM Template hour and may occur at any time in that hour which you enter in the time column Page 5 4 Natural Log User Manua
12. er into this avail unless the spot has an Avail Type designation which matches In this way you can protect your special avails e g sponsorship avails etc If you leave this Unrestricted NL8 assumes that there is no restriction on the use of the avail If you want to make an avail usable for a restricted avail type spot but also allow it to be used for unrestricted spots if no restricted type spot uses the avail you simply put a after the avail type For Example an avail type listed as CS would be used for any CS spots if needed but if it is not needed for a CS restricted spot it can be used for unrestricted avail type spots Log Template Fill Priority Within each hour you can specify the order in which NL8 uses the avails in each hour by specifying a Fill Priority Within each hour NL8 will fill all priority 1 avails then priority 2 etc up to priority 99 In this way you can control how an hour is filled with spots or which commercial sets are used first You can use the same Fill Priority for each line within a commercial break or use different Fill Priorities on each line in a break to force NL8 to skip around between breaks Also by assigning a priority of 100 to 199 or 200 to 299 etc to a commercial avail you can create secondary avails to be used only when all lower level avails priority 0 to 99 are full in all hours of the day Your choices Q First Level 1 to 99 Q Second Level 100 to 199 Q Third Level 200 t
13. f Used commercial set NL8 only will fill the avails in that commercial break which have an Avail Type restriction Log Template Source This allows you to enter the source for an event Usually this will be Local but you may also enter Network The computer uses this information to generate network spot files containing avails for you to quickly enter network spots If this is entered as Local NL8 will use this avail for local spots If you enter this as Network the NL8 will save this avail for network spots only Page 5 8 Natural Log User Manual 9 02 Auto Insert Avails in Log Templates Commercial avails show NL8 where it can schedule items from Broadcast Orders In the Log Template Editor click Edit Insert to automatically insert a new Commercial Break or Stand Alone avail Insert Commercial Break Avails Most stations use commercial breaks also known as stop sets or clusters You must enter the maximum number of spots in the break and at least an approximate schedule time If desired you can enter the maximum length of the break If you need to force a break to be filled enter Mandatory for the Fill Code If you need to force a break to be filled to exact length only if at least one item is logged in the break such as for optional network breaks that can be skipped but if taken must be filled to length enter If Used for the Fill Code Enter Source as Local or Network See section 5 02 for more details
14. g Template to be copied to i Copy Log Template Of x r Basis for New Log Format Make a Copy of the EXISTING Log Template DEMO 4M Normal Daily Log Monday New Log Format Station JDEMO AM x Log Template Type Normal Daily Log bi Log Template for Day Copy an Entire Hour of a Log Template To copy one hour to other days hours display the hour to be copied from Then click Edit Mass Change Paste Hour to Other Days Hours Then select the appropriate days and hours into which the displayed hour should be pasted ia Paste HOUR from DEMO AM Normal Daily Log Monday 08 00 AM TO To Station DEMO AM 7 To Log Format Type Normal Daily Log Start Pasting Wednesday Thursday Left Click on a DAY name to select ALL hours that day Right Click to UNselect Paste TO x Left Click on an Hour Heading to select ALL days for that hour Right Click to UNselect cl Left Click on a a individual Day Hour cell to select that Day Hour Right Click to UNselect All None Bde Continued on next page Page 5 10 Natural Log User Manual 5 03 Copying Log Templates cont Copy a Portion of a Log Template To copy one or more events from one Log Template to other s select the item s to be copied by either Hold down the Right Click and Drag your mouse slowly o
15. l 5 01 Editing Log Templates cont To edit or enter an individual Log Template event double click the event w Edit Log Format Line Iof x Maximum Spots in Break Event Type Start Commercial Break Avail a Scheduled Time 8 22 00 AM be Description Commercial Break Length B oo Avail Type Restriction x New Avail Type Fill Priority 2 Save Cancel Log Template Event Type Fill Code On the Log Template event edit screen this box is only available when entering a new Log Template event Source Local You can select Q Start New Commercial Break Avail Q 4Continue Commercial Break Avail Q Stand Alone Avail Q Log Text Program Title Automation Command PageBreak Log Template Time You should enter at least an approximate scheduled time for the event in this column If you leave the time blank NL8 looks up the Log Template and uses the last valid time entered in this column and applies it to this event Note If the Log Template being edited is a Special Event Template this column is elapsed time since the start of the program In all other cases this is actual time of day Continued on next page Natural Log User Manual Page 5 5 5 01 Editing Log Templates cont ig Edit Log Format Line Iof x Maximum Spots in Break Event Type Start Commercial Break Avail a x Scheduled Time 8 22 00 AM ha Description Commercial Bre
16. o 299 Q Continuing to the 8th level 900 to 999 Note Mandatory commercial breaks must have priority level of O to 99 never 100 to 899 If you leave the Fill Priority blank NL8 assigns it a level of 99 Continued on next page Natural Log User Manual Page 5 7 5 01 Editing Log Templates cont im Edit Log Format Line Iof x Maximum Spots in Break Event Type Start Commercial Break Avail a x Scheduled Time fa22004M f Deseniption Commercial Break Length B oo x Avail Type Restriction iii New Avail Type Fill Priority 2 g FillCode y Source Local 7 Log Template Fill Code The fill code is requested only for events with designating a commercial break or designating a Stand Alone commercial avail It is skipped for all other event types Unless one of the following situations applies this should always be left blank Your choices are Q Mandatory NL8 will force all Mandatory stand alone avails to be filled It will also fill to the proper length any Mandatory commercial breaks provided you enter a desired length 0o If Used Fill NL8 will fill commercial breaks to the proper length only if at least one spot is logged in that commercial break and a length is entered for the commercial break This is helpful for satellite network formats in which you must fill certain commercial breaks because the network does not cover them Note If no length is entered for a Mandatory or I
17. ption at your Sign On time and Sign OFF as the event name at your Sign Off time Hyphen is required PageBreak forces NL8 to send a page break when the log is printed This gives the user control over where page breaks occur and allows the user to combine hours on one printed log page if desired Continued on next page Page 5 6 Natural Log User Manual 5 01 Editing Log Templates cont Log Template Event Length The length entry is required only in the circumstances shiown below If you don t care about the length leave it blank Q Commercial Break Length For an event which starts a commercial break the length you enter if any will specify a maximum minutes seconds for the Total commercial set length Q Stand Alone Commercial For an event which is a Stand Alone commercial avail if you enter a length NL8 will only fill that avail with an item with a matching of the length Log Template Avail Type Restriction Warning Log Template Avail Type and Broadcast Order Avail Type should almost always be Unrestricted blank Avail type restrictions are most commonly used to reserve an avail slot for a particular customer or type of order such as a program sponsorship See section 2 14 of this manual to create new avail types Only if necessary to accomplish a specific goal you may specify a restriction on the use of an avail You do this by entering a valid Avail Type NL8 will never insert any spot from a Broadcast Ord
18. t Day Hour Right Click to UNselect All None Local Local Local 8 39 00 AM i Local 9 40 00 AKA WiCATUCD Lansl Natural Log User Manual Page 5 11 5 04 Inserting Special Events Templates in Log Templates To access the Log Template Editor from the main NL8 menu select Logs then the Template Type you want to work with You can then use the drop down boxes to select the Station Log Template Type the Specific Log Template and the hour to be displayed To edit or enter an individual Log template event double click the event on the Log Template screen These items may be edited Automatic insertion of Special Event Templates is easily accomplished in NL8 using Special Event Scheduling That method is recommended See section 3 09 of this manual However you can still insert paste a Special Event Template into a Special Date Log Template or a Normal Daily Log Template as was done in earlier DOS versions of Natural Log as follows Q Open the Log template into which the Special Event is to be pasted Q Click to highlight the event where you want the Special Event to begin Q Then click Edit Insert Special Event Template and select the Special Event Template to be inserted Insert Special Event Template into Log template Oe x Insert Special Event Special Event Station DEMO AM bi Special Event Template ig EAn a REN e Insert Help DEMO AM Normal D
19. t to schedule an audio cut recorded on your automation system which you name ABCD followed by the month and date The audio cut to be played on Nov 28 would be ABCD1128 You can enter 8ABCD mmddq in the Event Description column of your log template as shown on event 0019 shown below Example 2 Suppose you want to schedule a voice track audio cut recorded on your automation system as VT followed by the hour and minute it is scheduled The audio cut to be played at 12 17 AM would be VT0017 You can enter amp VT hhmm in the Event Description column of your log template as shown on event 0004 shown below Example 3 Suppose you want to schedule an hour specific weather forecast recorded in your automation system as WX followed by the hour number The audio cut to be played at in the 12AM hour would be WX01 You can enter amp WX hh in the Event Description column of your log template as shown on event 0010 shown below Example 4 Suppose you want to schedule a program audio cut on your automation system which you name MyWay followed by day of week number The audio cut to be played at on Wednesday would be MyWay3 You can enter amp MyWay DayNum in the Event Description column of your log template as shown on event 0012 shown below 4 Log Templates File Edit Tools Help D x D D amp g KA New Template Insert Line Delete Line Edit Line Insert Break Single Avail Print Help Close Station Log Template Type Log Template Name Log Hour
20. ver the items to be copied Ctrl Right Clicking them to select multiple items one at a time Click Edit Select All After the item s are selected click Edit Mass Change Paste Selected Item s to other Days Hours Then select the appropriate days and hours into which the selected items should be pasted 4 Log Templates elx Fie Edit Tools Help e ee ee S a ee New Template Insert Line Delete Line Edit Line Insert Break Single Avail Print Help Close Station Log Template Type Log Template Name Log Hour JDEMO AM 7 ea 7 Monday 7 foe oo AM 7 8 00 00 4M z 8 00 00 AM LOCAL NEWS Commercial Break 60 NS News Sponsorship ii NS News Sponsorship 8 05 00 AM Commercial Break 60 NS News Sponsor NS News Sponsor 8 07 00 AM NA News Adjacen aci Paste SELECTED ITEMS from DEMO AM Normal Daily Log Monday 00 AM TO ei Gtx 8 1 To Station Demo AM To Log Format Type Normal Daily Log x Da 12 1a 2a 3a 4a 5a 6a 7a 8a 9a 10 11 12 1 p 5 7p 8p 9p 10 11 4 Monday a 8 1 Pasting 81 T uesday 81 Wednesday aaa mm i me Thursday AE mia EE Saturday os Sunday Network Left Click on a DAY name to select ALL hours that day Right Click to UNselect Paste TO x Close E Left Click on an Hour Heading to select ALL days for that hour Right Click to UNselect Local Left Click on a a individual Day Hour cell to select tha
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