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STrafficScheduling and trafficEarly access

Plan to the frame. Publish to MCR.

STraffic is scheduling and traffic for SONE. Planners build each channel’s day on a frame-accurate grid, fill the ad breaks, check everything before it goes out, and publish. The published day becomes that day’s SPO playlist, shared live with master control.

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STraffic · Day grid (illustration)

STraffic is in early access. The grid shown here is an illustration, not a capture of the product.

  1. STEP 01

    Plan

    Build the day on the grid from the library, from templates or from a BXF import.

  2. STEP 02

    Check

    Validation finds missing media, expired rights, overlaps and days that run short or long.

  3. STEP 03

    Publish

    The day becomes the SPO playlist for that date, with a new revision.

  4. STEP 04

    Air and report

    MCR plays it in SPO; the as-run comes back for planned against actual and proof of play.

What STraffic does

Built for planners who think in frames.

  • 01

    A day grid that snaps to frames

    A vertical timeline per channel and day. Drag and drop, snap to HH:MM:SS:FF, and see gaps, overlaps and the running over or under for every hour. Switch to the week view to plan ahead.

  • 02

    Programme library

    Title, episode, house ID, media reference, rights window and category. Durations are read from the media file itself. Search, then drag into the grid.

  • 03

    Ad breaks that add up

    Spots entered by hand or imported from BXF, with the total spot duration always measured against the break length.

  • 04

    Templates

    Weekly grid patterns, copy last week, copy a day or a week. The routine takes a few clicks.

  • 05

    Checked before it airs

    Validation before publishing: missing media, expired rights, overlaps and days that are not 24 hours long.

  • 06

    Publish to MCR

    Publishing creates or updates the SPO playlist for that day. SPO shows the revision; every revision keeps its author and time.

  • 07

    One shared playlist

    Planners edit in STraffic while MCR operators work in SPO, at the same time. Conflicts are flagged per item on both sides, items on air or cued are locked for planners, and every change is audited with who and where.

  • 08

    Day change handover

    At the changeover time SPO asks whether to load tomorrow’s schedule, and loads it automatically if nobody answers within the set number of minutes. STraffic shows the handover status.

  • 09

    Reports

    Planned against as-run for every day, with missed, late and cut items; a proof-of-play list per advertiser as CSV, from the as-run log and the spots; and an HTML day report that needs no printing.

Ad breaks

Every break, filled to the frame.

Enter spots by hand or import them from BXF. STraffic measures the total spot duration against the break length as you go, and the same spots feed the proof-of-play list for each advertiser.

  • Spots stacked inside the break
  • Total against the break length
  • BXF (SMPTE ST 2021) import and export
  • Proof of play per advertiser as CSV
STraffic · Ad break (illustration)

At a glance

STraffic specifications

Part of the SONE platform: one Windows service, one web UI, one signed licence.

Planning
Day grid and week view, frame-accurate (HH:MM:SS:FF)
Playout
Publishes to the SPO playlist
Traffic exchange
BXF (SMPTE ST 2021) import and export
Reports
Planned vs as-run, proof of play (CSV), HTML day report
Workstations
Planner workstations can show only STraffic
Licensing
Per planned channel, unlimited planner users

The SONE family

Works even better together.

See STraffic on your own engines.

Book a walkthrough with people who have run master control. We will show SONE with your scenes, your playout format and your newsroom feeds.

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