What Kind of Carriage Reporting Does TRAC Media Services Offer?

Our Carriage Service tracks public television stations’ (PTV) schedules 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. With this data, producers, stations and distributors alike can analyze each and every broadcast of their program(s). Whether you leverage this information as proof of performance for grantors, underwriters or other supporters, or are using past titles to secure funding for future productions, our Carriage Service can assist you in making the case for production support. The Carriage Service has been found useful for producers, local and national underwriting solicitations, as well as station relations professionals.

TRAC’s Carriage Service includes program carriage information for all 1100+ public television broadcast and digital channels. Reporting using our Carriage Service includes the percent-coverage of US television household as well as the airdates and times stations broadcast the program. Carriage information is updated every night from TiVo (formerly ROVI/TV Guide).

The Carriage Service subscription includes online access to graphical summary reports; as well as reporting of stations that did not air a program, and those that either scheduled or dropped a specific program. The service also includes access to station-specific daily and/or weekly schedules. For programs with episodes being reported to TiVo, you can also run episode specific reports.

All the reports can be exported to Excel, select reports can be exported to PDF.

Carriage Service reporting includes:

• Carriage Summary

  This graphical report includes number of airings, number of channels, expressed by day, time periods, time zones and demographics.
  Use this report to quickly summarize general information about your program using charts and graphs in a presentation-ready format.

  Carriage Summary Report Sample.pdf

• Airing Detail/Airings by Channel

  Displays all telecasts listed separately.

  Airing Detail Airings by Channel Sample.pdf

• Channel Summary

  All telecasts are summarized by channels – displayed as one unique row for each channel.

  Carriage Channel Summary Report Sample.pdf

• Time Slot Summary

  This highlights the total number of telecasts as well as channel-specific information for each channel/timeslot.

  Carriage Timeslot Summary Report Sample.pdf

• Non-Carriage

  This offering lists channels that did not air your program(s) based on your query parameters.

  Non Carriage Report Sample.pdf

• Channel Change

  Discover what channels have either picked up- or dropped your program for dates you select.

  Station Change Report Sample.pdf

• Daily Schedule

  This report provides a single day’s listing for one channel.

  Channel Daily Schedule Report Sample.pdf

• Weekly Schedule

  This handy offering provides one week’s listings for one channel in a formatted grid.

  Channel Weekly Schedule Report Sample.pdf

• Channel/Market List

  This is a list of all public television channels analyzed via filters for metered channels, main channels, subchannels, and Nielsen Designated Market Areas (DMAs).

  Channel Market List.pdf