How to create a schedule with working FTE's

[Cinetunes]

Hi,

I have a problem with the scheduling of my station.

In all of my scripts i have a Fixed time element with the name of the program at the top of the hour on 0:00. Now i have the following problem: When the schedule changes the playlist to the new one of the upcoming hour (the new program) it will first play the FTE of the old playlist then after 1 second the FTE begins playing of the new playlist. The result is two FTE's running trough each other.

I tried to change the scheduling times to end on 59 min and 55 seconds and the new one start on 0:00, but with no succes.

Can someone tell me how to let the system play only the new FTE of the new playlist? Thanks!

[radio42]

I assume, that your FTE as well as the program starts at exactly the full hour.
In that case you don't even need an FTE at all.
E.g. you can place your entry (which you want to play at the very beginning of the program) as the very first script-line.
Then set the script's 'Loop Line' option value to 2 - in order to never repeat this script-line...

As an alternative, you might set with your FTE either the 'Skip First' or 'Repeat' option!
This depends a bit on what you really want to achieve, in case your scheduled program is longer than 1 hour, but you still want to play a Top of the hour jingle.

A combination of both these alternatives might also be possible, e.g. use a first script-line and an FTE which has the 'Skip First' option set.

[Cinetunes]

Thank you for the fast response!

I see that there is also a option to skip the last FTE.
Will that also work if i simply turn that on and set the scheduling this way?:

Program A: 12:00 - 17:00 (Should start every hour with the FTE of program A)
Program B: 17:00 - 19:00 (Should start every hour with the FTE of program B)

[radio42]

Yes.

Skip First:
If checked, the element will not be executed initially when the script starts - but only with the next occurrence.
E.g. when you have set this option and the script starts at 15:00:00 and your element should repeat at 00:00 it will first be executed at 16:00:00, but not initially at 15:00:00!
Note: Setting an element time to exactly a script start time should be no problem, but setting it close to a script start time might be problematic and might cause timing issues, so that the element is started late after the real first script track (as such elements would always be cued initially as a 2nd track)! E.g. avoid setting the start time to 00:01 if your script starts at e.g. 15:00:00.

Skip Last:
If checked, the last element occurrence will not be executed when the related program's end time is reached (in which the script is used).
E.g. when you have set this option and the program ends at 18:30:00 and your element should repeat at 15:00 it will be executed at 17:15:00 for the last time, but not at 18:15:00 anymore.
If you have set this option and the program ends at 18:00:00 and your element should repeat at 59:00 it will be executed at 16:59:00 for the last time, but not at 17:59:00 anymore.