Program Director Roles and Responsibilities

The Program Director reports directly to the Siskiyou Media Council Executive Director and is responsible for management of all programming appearing on Northland Cable TV Channel 15 and live stream video on MCTV 15 website. Through communications with Executive Director and Technical Director, monitors such programming. Effective August 2009, the Program Director is currently authorized up to 4 hours per week for this duty. Program Director is currently an at will employee position through registration with Personnel Preference.

Specific duties as listed:

• Process program submissions per operational policies
• All shows must be accompanied by signed Show Agreement form for uploading to program schedule on a weekly basis
• Media Transfer if needed for program submissions per producer request and per operational policy within set time allocation. Maintain updated written records of Producers sponsoring out of area shows in office file cabinet.
• Weekly prepare the show guide and store on the Media Server external hard drive.
• The weekly show schedule is first prepared on Calendar Scope running Windows XP. This software makes it possible to interactively plan out the week’s show times.
• Prepare Shows for Media Server
  • Assign a number in MCTV 15's Dabble DB Show Database.
  • Rip DVD directly to Media Server drive (Z).
  • Rename ripped file to 'show base name'.mpg.
  • Create XML and CUT files that describe ripped show.
  • Run File - to create schedule
  • Check playreport.tx for errors
  • Use playlistGotWiki.tx to create schedule for Website
  • Post weekly schedule on Website under TV Schedule Tab
  • Include in weekly schedule all Mt. Shasta, Weed, and Dunsmuir City Council Meetings in schedule and Mt. Shasta and Weed Planning Commission Meetings.

• Written instructions for processing shows is on the website at http://www.mctv15.org/Board/IngestingAndPreparing
• Prepare Scheduling according to the following (current) guidelines: http://www.mctv15.org/Public/ScheduleInformation

• Electronic Bulletin Board (EBB)
  • Arrange for update of the EBB on a weekly basis (typically Thursdays). Include PSA’s as submitted, and any postings per Sponsorship or Donors specifications
  • File hard copy of EBB updates in filing cabinet

• Website
  • Regular updating and monitoring of programming information on website as directed.

• Dubbing Requests
  • Process any written and paid for requests for DVD copies with MCTV 15 label or other product services as directed.