Scheduler - Wbd Sports - London, United Kingdom - Warner Bros Careers

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Your New Role...

In your exciting new role, you will be responsible for the break optimisation and Presentation Scheduling across our wonderful portfolio of WBD Sports channels across the UK and Nordic market.

This will involve liaising with the Programme Planning Team, Sport, Sales and Marketing Departments as well as the in-house Content Operations, Compliance, Live On-Air Team and Transmission Teams to ensure the delivery of fully optimised, editorially sound and compliant playlists.


_ Please note that this position will be offered as a 12 month fixed term contract_

Your Role Accountabilities...

  • Preparing midterm programme schedules, ensuring these are accurate for press release.
  • Break modelling, optimising onair and commercial time and preparing live sport break structure in accordance with Sport Department guidelines.
  • Support scheduling of live sport broadcasts including provision of contingency playlists. Ensure commercial/promotional inventory is optimised.
  • Being reactive to changes in programme content, sport rights and repeats of live events, adjusting the schedules accordingly.
  • Daily onair scheduling, liaising with interritory and UK departments to ensure a fully optimised and compliant playlist.
  • Schedule onair look in accordance with channel and slot branding. Schedule special placement graphics, such as legal required graphics or commercial graphics.
  • Liaising with Content, Production and Transmission Teams to follow up technical issues related to scheduled material such as commercials, programmes, trailers and subtitles in running playlists or scheduled for immediate broadcast.
  • Assist in the testing and implementation of new software development, upgrades and workflows as required by the Management Team.

Qualifications & Experience...

  • Solid experience in free to air/commercial onair scheduling.
  • Great understanding of sport & live broadcast.
  • Good knowledge of the scheduling system What's On or equivalent system.
  • An understanding of the end to end broadcast chain.
  • Knowledge of OfCom, BLM, CSA & other European Regulatory bodies.

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