The product BATS is a menu driven enterprise Ad Scheduling and Billing software tailor made to the needs of Media houses. It has various modules associated with respective departments involved in AdScheduling, log making and Billing.
It generates the final log as per the needs of the playout system which differs from Channel to Channel. The asrun log can be imported to generate the billing of the commercials played out. The system has an MIS system with comprehensive reporting and customized reporting.
Product Features :
The proposed solution has the following functional areas -
Administration Module
This module handles all the initial data to be fed in like the channel name, details of the organization/channel, user details, user profiling/rights,module association for each user and the database settings.
Transmission Tape Management System
The Transmission Tape Management System keeps track of all the tapes of all the events i.e. Program, Commercials, Promos, Fillers, Slides & Stills; it has in its possession along with their detailed Run Sheet recording having second to second information on the tape. The courier details, exporter details, exporter invoice & all tape-related reports are taken care of by the system.
FPC Management System
The FPC Management System produces the Fixed Program Chart daily for all the channels of PTC NEWS Network. It also contains all the details of the Channel i.e. Program time slots, Movies for the month, all permanent and temporary program changes, all episode & sponsorship details of programs telecasted. It also generates all FPC related reports.
Scheduling System
The Transmission log, which runs the channel, has to be generated and sent to transmission centre daily for all the channels. The log is the heart and soul of the channel operation. It contains second to second information of what events should run on the channel on the specified date. The system also generates all Scheduling related reports.
Sales Administration System
The Sales Administration System records all Release Orders, Reschedules and Cancellations of commercial bookings. It also keeps track of all Client-Agency-Brand-Commercial linkages, various payment routes, and PTC NEWS Executive's link with Clients who are under their Zone etc. The system also generates all Commercial Bookings related reports.
Billing System
The Billing system automatically matches all booked commercials with those that are actually telecasted and generates weekly billing with required audit. It also generates all reports required for billing, some of which are used to print on pre-printed billing stationary.
MIS Application
The MIS module handles comprehensive reporting for individual departments like programming, credit control, scheduling and billing.
The reports are customized as per the needs of the client. The MIS module also encompasses and user driven reporting tool where the user puts in combination of values to pull out a report.
Some examples of the reports are :
FPC Segment Details
This report gives you all the tapes details present for programs scheduled on the specified date in Daily FPC. This report is basically a check (before making the transmission log) to see if all details have come for the programs and the tape details entry are correct.
Final Audit Report
This report gives information about program offshoot or undershoots. In case of an undershoot necessary promos and fillers can be scheduled and for offshoot the following programs can be dropped. This report must be used before making the final log.
Date wise Booking Check List
This report gives a check list which indicates no of commercials, total send in transmission log and total send as log updates program slot wise (dailyfpc wise) for that date. This report is a cross check that all commercials for
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