Setting the regional channel for a regional event, About regional channels, E 98 – Grass Valley iTX Desktop v.2.6 User Manual

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The Event Editor

4.

Select Auto (the button turns red).

5.

Click Store Changes.

Setting the regional channel for a regional event

About regional channels

Your iTX system may include main and regional playout channels: the main channel provides

the program output for most of the time; at other times, the regional channels play out their

own media content.

For example, a national television station may broadcast the same programs to a number of

regions. At certain times, the regional channels disconnect from the national channel to show

programs of local interest. They re-connect to the national channel when the local programs

finish.

Each regional channel runs on its own Output Server, which is controlled from the main

channel; the regional channels are sub-channels of the main channel. Each regional channel has

the same name as the main channel followed by #n, where n is the number (1 to 8) of the

regional channel. For example, iTX1#4 is regional channel 4 of the main channel iTX1.

You use the regional-channel selection buttons, at the top of the Event Editor, to set the

regional channel to play out a selected schedule event. The regional event is scheduled as a

secondary event with a Start + time mode; its primary event plays out on the main playout

channel. An event plays out in the main channel when M is selected.

In the Schedule Grid, the regional event is a secondary event:

Unless you select a regional channel to play out a schedule event, the event plays out through

the main channel.

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