2. YOUTUBE COMMENTS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gijs_gZcQ2M
A short clip (without my ranting) of how a TV channel gets to air with the main component parts
shown.
● Each sub belt has a set of assigned tasks which get assigned and triggered by the CIGMA
which monitors and controls the main schedule assigned by the Channel Manager to suit the
genre of the channel.
● The 4 years schedule is a rolling 4 years (4 years being the time associated with major sports;
olympics, football, etc., and political terms of office etc.
● The schedule is broken down into business oriented container groups of days, weeks, lunar
months (4 weeks), days further being broken down into time of day viewer demographics and
months and weeks grouped into seasonal and public holiday groupings so that programme
promotions are geared to air time sales (commercial spot sales and sponsorship) can be
highlighted by the sales team and the channel managers instructions for programme purchase
and assignment of funds for studio production.
● Some have called this workflow management but in fact it is more akin to process flow
assembly line logistics
● The module marked "playout monitoring" is akin to a systems layer pre 2000 known as
'automation' which has been a redundant term since 2000 when cloud storage removed the
need for assembling groups of hardware at the final stage for daily playout
● The playout monitoring has necessary switches away from the channel schedule to live cloud
streams for breaking news etc etc
● Cloud broadcasting has reduced most of the hardware failure points of the pre 2000 mindset
and allowed a more flexible system approach and hugely reduced cost of operations.

3. DO YOU WANT MORE ???
OR IS IT ALL TOO EASY NOW ?
The sub processing logistic flow diagrams are available for:
● programme purchase/delivery and ingest to cloud
– (including cross channel playout costing schemes)
● studio production
● promo production
● advertising and sponsorship
– (including cross channel promotions)
● news reel insertion, spot production, package production, etc.
● playout monitoring and live breaking news insert rescheduling
Other flow diagrams include hierarchical cloud storage management
based on nimbus, cumulus, stratus, hurricane and tornado storm
models.