Creating Fixed rights for re-up deal including a lot of seasons 

 

There are five main sections for the rights integration to BV-

 

  1. Rights Information is entered
  2. Required fields to be populated
  3. Season/catalog status is set to “Ready for Scheduling” or “Ready External Publish”
  4. Rights Status is set to “Active”
  5. BV Deal lists primary and/or multicast rights.
  6. Deal have a pbs_traffic_id

 

Step

Action

Result

1. Change the Re-up deal status to 'Ready for Re-up deal' .Deal status is changed from 'Pending' to 'Ready for Re-up deal'.Deal status is changed.
2. Pbs_Traffic_id is added on the deal Pbs_traffic_id is populated on the deal template.

3. Service deal reach out to Ingrid that the Re-up is ready to create rights.Ingrid gets an email from service desk regarding the Re-up deal created in Mbank and BV.Deal is created in BV and Mbank.

4.Locate the desired deal template and scroll down to the rights section.

  • Search and identify the desired deal template where to create Rights records.
  • Desired deal is displayed.

5. Enter the below required fields on Rights-In Records:

  • Select catalog item
  • Term Start 
  • Term End
  • Exclusivity
  • Media
  • Territory
  • Language
  • Service
  • Type of Play Rule 
  • Unlimited Releases?
  • Number of Airs

 

 

Note – If there is a lot of seasons associated to the rights make sure all the episodes have same rights, if they don’t then make sure the rights are associated to individual episodes instead of seasons.

Type the values in the required fields on Rights-In Records:

(for BV integration, only Term Start, Term End, Media and Releases are required fields)

Select catalog item- Associate the catalog which the rights are setup for

  • Term Start- The date rights start for a catalog/contract.
  • Term End- The date rights end for a catalog/contract.
  • Exclusivity- Exclusive or Non-Exclusive 
  • Media – 
    • All Rights 
    • Television
    • Digital Multicast Distribution
    • School Off Air Recording

 

  • Territory
  • Language
  • Service – Select PBS for PBS rights record
  • Type of Play Rule 
  • Unlimited Releases?
  • Number of Airs- It is a conditional Field will be displayed only when unlimited releases field value is "No"

 

  • NOTE: For Fixed Start/End Dates we do not need to complete the Trigger fields.

 

The following fields are displayed on the Rights-In Record-

  • Term Start 
  • Term End
  • Exclusivity
  • Media
  • Territory
  • Language
  • Service
  • Type of Play Rule 
  • Unlimited Releases?
  • Number of Airs

6. Update the status on the Rights-In Record to “Active”

Click on the Rights status to update from “Pending” to “Active”.

Rights-in record status is set to Active.

7. Confirm the PBS Traffic        ID is populated on Rights-In Records.

Click in BV and check the rights are created on associated deal /episode.

Rights are created in BV.

8.  When on the rights are active, Update the deal status to “Rights Complete”

Click on the deal status to update from ‘Rights Pending’ to ‘Rights Complete’.

Deal status is set to “Rights Complete”.