Job Description
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The Core responsibility of the Playout Controller is to manage the transmission of 'Live' complex events, as well as to provide schedule management, output monitoring and first line recovery for any Sky hosted channels.
The management of 'live' complex events includes, for example: broadcasts where the break structure is variable, the duration of the event is unpredictable or where the timings of two subsequent events may overlap.
Schedule management includes the preparation, checking and updating of automation schedules delivered into the area to ensure discrepancies are identified before the output is affected. It also includes the alteration of live automation schedules due to changing editorial or commercial requirements. For both the preparation and management of the automation schedules, a high degree of attention to detail and adherence to agreed process is necessary to avoid potential impact to the channel output.
Through monitoring of the channel outputs ...