About This Role
This temporary position involves producing accurate 24-hour broadcast schedules as a Log Coordinator. The role requires aligning with network goals by executing strategies from Ad Sales, Programming, and On-Air departments, with a primary focus on optimizing commercial spot placement and managing inventory to maximize revenue.
Responsibilities
- Use Landmark to arrange commercial spots per client instructions and priority tokens
- Manage limbo spots and preempt unplaceable inventory with appropriate rationale
- Provide feedback on programming limitations to Commercial Ops to maximize revenue opportunity
- Enforce competitive separation rules and maintain fair rotation across advertisers
- Resolve line-booking restrictions and manually place high-priority sponsor insertions
- Comply with country-specific governmental minutage regulations during break adjustments
- Verify spot transfers between Landmark and Vision systems, facilitating late orders to capture revenue
- Build schedules approximately 14 days in advance of air date
- Adjust commercial break durations against program segment times to yield exact 24-hour logs
- Audit program templates and verify Ad Sales avail availability in key hours
- Request programming changes to maintain a balanced distribution of ad and promo time
- Modify logs as programming updates based on weekly rating trends, pushing final breaks to Sales systems
- Implement Ad Sales Secondary Event Strategy using Vision based on client requests
- Confirm scheduling of secondary graphic elements to Sales Planners
- Audit automated events (menus, next-ons, legal disclaimers) across channels, feeds, and regions
- Manually schedule promotional stunts for original and priority programming
- Upload promo files containing reserved promo time and unsold inventory
- Verify system-to-system promo transfers and execute post-upload promo changes requested by Media Planning
- Perform end-to-end technical audits to ensure all elements upload successfully into the log
- Eliminate gaps and overlaps to ensure programs start and end on grid schedule
- Validate program segmentation order, affiliate cable break placements, and updated material durations
- Confirm channel logo applications and fulfill all feed-specific legal requirements
Requirements
- Bilingual fluency in English and/or Spanish (written and oral)
- Strong time management, prioritization, and organizational skills
- Meticulous attention to detail and precision
- Ability to thrive under pressure and adapt to last-minute scheduling changes
