TV Network Spot Integration for All Univision stations for Univision & Telefutura Networks
All Univision and Entravision owned Univision / Telefutura TV affiliates now use Power-Link to integrate their local commercials into the network log. 

This automatically places local spots into the correct time / program slot as well as checking for product related issues (did we just place a local Walmart spot adjacent to a network Kmart spot?).. 

The operators now work from a single composite log showing network events with local events highlighted in the playlist lineup.  Also the digital playback devices now get a full log formatted to correct show and play the integrated log in an optimal manner. 

It is reported that they are saving at least 2 employee hours per station/broadcast day using these custom routines.  Also this has proven to be a more thorough method of finding spot avail fill errors as well as detecting new product code violations.

Full Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance
Publicly traded companies are now required by federal law to keep thorough audit trails.  With Power-Link 6.0 your audit trail is automated and more complete than ever.  Reasons for changing the status of a spot from "aired" to "not aired" and vice-versa are now recorded into your audit report. 

Up-to-the-Minute Reconciliation
No more waiting until the next day to know if your spots played correctly. 

Audit Friendly
Auditors now have a tool to review a reconcile in Power-Link without risk of accidentally making changes, or resending information back to the Traffic and Billing system.

Revised Log/Late Add Friendly
The reconciliation process now begins with a check for a revised log, so that late adds or other revisions can be reconciled automatically.

Linking to Promo Schedulers
Many of our large market users were looking for a way to automatically incorporate "promo play list" generated by (for instance) RCS's Selector/LinkerŪ into the daily play list based on the traffic system scheduling a unique "link cart".   This special (replaced) event was scheduled by the traffic system because it knew that the "avail" was there.   Power-Link will automatically incorporate those into the play list merging traffic and promotion's play list into one easy to see and handle play list bound for the digital playback system.

Day Part "Smart" Reconcile
 Now users have the ability to define custom "day parts".  Power-Link will   insure that the events scheduled in a day part are truly aired during that day part.  If your station has high priority day parts, this feature will provide additional assurance of an accurate airing and billing.

DIRECT ACCESS Templates
Recently working with the assistance of a top rated station in New York City, we discovered that the promotions director wanted direct and total control and placement of daily promos to be aired.  the mission was: What would be the best way to create, edit, and assign a daily "play-list" of the promos to air for a specific day?
Power-TEMP with DIRECT ACCESS Templates, was the answer.  With it, they can now create, maintain and assign a lineup of events to be automatically merged in to the daily traffic events.   Promo play-list can be scheduled infinitely into advance and reused to make the daily assignment simple and quick.  So whether its daily repeated events that needed to be added to the play-list or assigned on a one-day basis, or both;  the Power-Link / Power-TEMP programs are meeting the traffic/promotions and programming departments expectations and needs. 

History Air-Play Reporting
Ever need to know the air times and play status of a client over the past month?  Last week?  How about all PSA or Network affiliation activity?   (perfect for producing network affidavits)   It can now be viewed and printed from Power-Link in seconds. 
Powerful search criteria can build reports spanning the date range of your interest.  This is a great way to provide information for network affidavits or satisfy the curiosity of a client or sales person.  Search by name (as known by either traffic or digital playback system ), cart number , date or any combination.  Its powerful, quick and easy and provides a great tool for regular or occasional reports of airplay activity.

Power-Link Daily Auto-Templates
 Power-Link offer solutions to the age old burden to putting "bogus events" and awkward command lines in your traffic system just to suit the scheduling needs of your digital automation system.  With Power-Merge, for 10 years Power-Link has provided innovative solutions for template needs for clients of particularly difficult scheduling systems, now we make that technology available to all in the convenient settling of Power-Link.   Now, as your schedule is being transferred and converted to the automation's format, the template can be an automatic addition.  This feature saves untold hours of formatting hassles and   keeps your traffic system from having all of the clutter and confusion of being responsible for ALL of the needed elements to take advantage of all of the many features of the digital automation system.

Stop Continuity Errors!
Are the right commercials airing?  Power-Link's reconciliation now has the ability to make sure that the spots that aired are the correct advertiser and copy.   By comparing the Scheduled event's title to the returned event's title, Power-Link can catch continuity errors literally as they are happening.  Also the spot's duration's can be checked and reported on. 
In the "Recon View" area of the station's configuration, Power-Link can be configured to visit this function each and every time that a reconcile is run.  This insures that the user looks over any title mismatches that have occurred in the reconciliation.  Immediately there after it can be similarly configured to show the user any aired events whose duration appears to significantly in error. 
The results of the two recent additions can quickly alert your traffic department to erroneous clients and wrong copy airing for every broadcast day that is processed!   This feature alone has recently proven itself extremely valuable as it makes sure that the Correct Advertiser ran.  And coming in a future upgrade, will have the ability to STOP THE WRONG COMMERCIAL FROM PLAYING, IN ADVANCE.  Our sophisticated title comparison routines will find Events that have the same cart but contain the wrong advertiser. 

Make Quick Status changes in Reconcile (i.e. save even more time)
Occasionally there are times that the traffic person overrides Power-Link's reconcile findings.  For these "exceptions" Power-Link is the only reconciliation package that offers the much needed "interactive reconciliation".   As long as there is radio there will surely be commercials that aired or did not air, contrary to the reporting of the digital playback system.  In version 4.9 we have introduced quick keystrokes that change either a single event's status or potentially a list of "marked" event's status'.  

"Smart-Carts" for rotating cart issues
Power-Link is the only reconciler that has "smart cart" equations for rotating carts.  This means that if you schedule a rotating cart (a cart number that potentially triggers the playing of another cart) you most likely will NOT get back the same cart number for that event. 
Reconcilers that come "packaged" with some traffic systems don't seem to realize this!  Power-Link knows the rotating cart numbering characteristics of your automation system and considers it when reconciling.  Along with our unique "Smart Carts" Power-Link's "AKA" abilities (see details below) are at your disposal for equating unlike cart numbers and entire ranges of carts.  You'll be set to reconcile most any odd combination of cart numbers.