Unless preempted by a play by play event, the broadcast
begins every weekday evening at 06:04:00 PM Central time.
Unless preempted by a play by play event, the broadcast
is three hours (6PM, 7PM, and 8PM) each night. The format is identical
for each hour.
No station ID breaks are taken, as we return programming
back to affiliates at the top of each hour.
Unlike play by play events, Sports Nightly opens and
closes do not contain an opportunity to play a local sponsor liner. If
you desire to give credit to a local sponsor, you must do it before you join
the network at :04:00 past each hour, and/or during local breaks.
The two local breaks within each hour contain an
extra two seconds for you to insert your own local station liner. We do
not fire a trigger for this liner.
We close out each hour of Sports Nightly by calling for
Break #5+6 at exactly :53:50. We send a local break trigger at exactly
:56:50. We do NOT send a legal ID trigger as your ID or other
promo/liner should be programmed into your three minute and ten second break
#6. Note, this break does not contain two extra seconds, it is exactly
3:10.
If a Sports Nightly is abbreviated, the extended
comments on the Affiliate Calendar will show details (ie: "Sports Nightly thru
the first break in the 7PM hour"). Times noted in these comments
are Central time.
All breaks are coupled as a network break followed by a
local break. Every local break has a local break contact closure.
If we join Sports Nightly in progress following a play
by play event, we'll allow a two minute and two second (2:02) local break
between the end of the play by play event and the start of the Sports Nightly
open. You'll then need to listen to the Sports Nightly host...as they'll
on the show tell you what the next local break will be (ie: "affiliates your
next break will be the third break of the hour").
The outcue for local breaks is "(you're listening
to)...SPORTS NIGHTLY".
The outcue for network breaks is "...Husker Sports
Network".
Times shown with a tilde (~) are approximate and will
float depending on program content, otherwise times noted are hard times.
xx:04:00 Sports
Nightly Hourly Open
xx:17:00~ BREAK #1: Network 3:00
IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWED BY...
BREAK #2: LOCAL 3:02 (triggered by contact #1)
xx:37:00~ BREAK #3: Network 3:00
IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWED BY...
BREAK #4: LOCAL
3:02
(triggered by contact #1)
xx:53:50 BREAK #5:
Network 3:00
xx:56:50 BREAK #6:
LOCAL 3:10 (triggered by contact #1)