Adtec digital TBGS w/adManage - Manual (Page 40)

Appendix 38
C - CCMS Schedule Format
A schedule file exists for each channel of insertion. The file name
will always be eight characters in length plus the three character
extension of SCH.
MDDCCHHH.SCH
M -
Represents month of intended airing.
Range 1 - C Ex. 1 = January, C = December
Hexadecimal format
DD -
Represents day of month of intended airing
Range 01-31 Ex. 05
CC -
Numeric identifier or Channel ID
Range 01-99
HHH -
Numeric identifier or Headend ID
Range 001- 099
The records within the SCH file follow the following format. Each
record is terminated by a carriage return and line feed. Each record
will all be at least 77 bytes in length. The fields of each record are
determined by its byte position. Each field is separated by a space
character. All times are formatted in military time.
The record format is as follows :
Field # Field Name Bytes Description
1 Event Type 1-3 Type of event defined by record
(LOI, REM,END, NUL)
2 Scheduled Date 5-8 T&Bs approximation of the date
when the event will occur (formatted
- MMDD)
3 Scheduled Time 10-15 T&Bs approximation of the time of day
when the event will occur (formatted
- HHMMSS)
Field # Field Name Bytes Description
4 Window Start Time 17-20 Time of day to begin window of
opportunity for event to occur
(formatted - HHMM)
5 Window Duration
Time
22-25 Length of window of opportunity for
event to occur (formatted - HHMM)
6 Break Number Within
Window
27-29 Break sequence number within
window of opportunity for event to
occur
7 Position Number
Within Break
30-33 Position sequence number for event
within break
8 Scheduled Length 35-40 Scheduled event length (formatted
- HHMMSS)
9 Actual Aired Time 42-47 Actual aired time of day used in VER
file. (Formatted HHMMSS)
10 Actual Aired Length 49-56 Actual aired length used in VER file
(formatted - HHMMSSCC)
11 Actual Aired Position
Within Break
58-60 Actual sequential position number that
event occurred in. Used in VER file
12 Spot Identification 62-72 T&Bs spot identification code used
by adManage as the commercial
file name. See Headend>File Name
Length configuration on how this spot
ID is converted into a file name.
13 Status Code 74-77 Completion status Code used in VER
file.(See Appendix E for definition of
Status Codes)
14 Advertiser Name 79-110 Advertiser’s name as identified in T&B.
15 Advertiser Spot Name 112-131 Advertiser’s Spot Name as identified
in T&B
16 Scheduled/Fill 133-136 Identifies the spot as either being
scheduled contractually or used
as filler in order to complete a
commercial break.
17 Traffic System
Reserved
138-143 Reserved for use by the Traffic System
18 User Defined 145-NNN For use in tracking other data.
adManage uses this field in Merged
schedules to identify the event line as
a local or interconnect event.