Avail List Configuration

u Accessible from 4C-TV’s Configuration, a new Avail List Configuration screen is used to defined parameters used in the Avail List module.

u The Territory & Services parameters set parameters for each Service or Territory:

• The Code field is used to indicate the value to use for the Avail List ID for each Service & Territory.
• The Premiere column specifies the day of the week when "prime" titles premiere on the Service. The values will be used to compute the number of prime premiere days on each month.

u The Allocation Factors lists the allocation for each Service or Territory for each period:

• Multiple values are allowed with different validity periods.
• Each title’s Avail Start determines its allocation factor. The value used will be the one in the period covering the title’s Avail Start.

u The Film Request Job field indicates the Job Service code used when generating requests for original masters from distributors. This values is used to calculate the Material Status column in the Avail List spreadsheet.

u The Movie Distr Class field indicates a list of program Classification Codes (Distributor Classification) that corresponds to MOVIES according to Avail List criterion.

• Items are added/removed from the list via the popup menu to the field’s right.
• The Avail List Follow-up and the Avail List Preparation screens were updated to calculate the Type column according to this new parameter. If a title’s Distributor Classification is in the list above its type will be "MOVIE", otherwise its type will be "NON-MOVIE".

u The Colour Configuration popups allows for used defined colours to be used in the Avail List spreadsheet. Titles with a given Contract or Material status will assume the colour indicated in this configuration.

• If the colour selected for a specific status is blank, titles in that status will not assume any special colour. This allows users to indicate which program statuses to track via special colouring.