Converts a list of planned radio content into a timed running order with clock times, slugs, durations, presenter notes, and transition guidance. Useful for producers formalising or restructuring programme schedules.
How this skill is triggered — by the user, by Claude, or both
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Builds a complete radio programme running order with timed segments, item slugs, durations, presenter notes, and transition guidance from a list of planned content.
Builds a complete radio programme running order with timed segments, item slugs, durations, presenter notes, and transition guidance from a list of planned content.
Required: Programme duration, a list of planned items (name, type, approximate duration), and the programme format type (e.g. news magazine, music-and-talk, current affairs, documentary strand). Optional: Programme start time, presenter name, specific items that must open or close the programme, any items with fixed hard times (e.g. news at the hour), music tracks to include, ad break positions, and any items that may overrun or be cut at short notice.
A table-format running order with the following columns: CLOCK TIME (cumulative, from programme start), SLUG (item name), TYPE (news / interview / package / music / ad / trail / link), DURATION, and NOTES. Below the table: a brief programme shape note explaining the editorial logic of the sequence (3–5 sentences). If any items are flagged as droppable (i.e. items that can be cut at short notice to recover time), they are marked with an asterisk. Total document: 300–500 words including the table and shape note.
Programme: "Midday Roundtable" — 45-minute news-magazine and interview programme Start time: 12:00 Fixed items: News bulletin at 12:00 (3 mins); ad break at 12:20 (2 mins); trail for afternoon schedule at 12:43 (1 min) Variable items:
MIDDAY ROUNDTABLE — RUNNING ORDER Date: [insert] Presenter: [insert] Programme duration: 45:00 | Start: 12:00 | End: 12:45
| CLOCK | SLUG | TYPE | DURATION | NOTES |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12:00 | NEWS BULLETIN | News | 3:00 | Fixed. Presenter hands to bulletin reader. |
| 12:03 | PROGRAMME OPEN + TEASE | Link | 0:45 | Presenter intro — tease housing interview and phone-in. |
| 12:03:45 | HOUSING SECRETARY INTERVIEW | Interview (live) | 8:00 | Lead item. Pre-position on housing policy announcement. Have cue sheet ready. |
| 12:11:45 | MUSIC BRIDGE | Music | 2:00 | Structural break. Presenter back-anno the interview over music out. |
| 12:13:45 | COMMUNITY GARDEN PACKAGE | Package | 2:00 | Lighter item — contrast after policy interview. Presenter intro link: 20 secs. |
| 12:16:15 | PHONE-IN: HOUSING AFFORDABILITY | Phone-in | 6:00 | Three callers at 2 mins each. Producer to pre-screen. |
| 12:22:15 | AD BREAK | Ad | 2:00 | Fixed (approx. 12:20 — allow for slip). Back on air by 12:24:15. |
| 12:24:15 | HOUSING CHARITY INTERVIEW * | Interview (pre-rec) | 5:00 | Can cut to 3:00 if needed. Back anno the phone-in theme before introducing guest. |
| 12:29:15 | PRESENTER LINKS / TEASES | Link | 1:30 | Tease afternoon schedule; return to housing theme for programme coherence. |
| 12:30:45 | [FLEX SLOT — see note] | — | — | See below. |
| 12:43:00 | TRAIL: AFTERNOON SCHEDULE | Trail | 1:00 | Fixed. Must not start later than 12:43. |
| 12:44:00 | PROGRAMME CLOSE | Link | 1:00 | Presenter sign-off. |
| 12:45:00 | END |
FLEX SLOT NOTE: There is approximately 12:15 of unallocated time between 12:30:45 and 12:43:00. This slot can absorb the remaining presenter link budget (1:15) plus an additional pre-recorded item of up to 10:00 if available, OR be used to extend the charity interview or allow the phone-in to run long. Flag to presenter before transmission.
*Droppable item — can be cut or shortened without breaking the programme shape.
PROGRAMME SHAPE NOTE: The programme opens hard on news and immediately moves to the lead political interview, which carries the highest news value. A music bridge provides a structural and tonal break before moving to a lighter human-interest package. The phone-in extends audience engagement on the same theme. The second half opens with a complementary expert voice before the close. The housing theme runs as a coherent thread across the whole programme, which should be acknowledged in the presenter's open tease and close.
npx claudepluginhub ur-grue/autopunk-media-skills --plugin autopunk-media-skillsFormats a programme rundown into a broadcast-standard cue sheet with item numbers, in/out-cues, durations, running totals, and technical notes for TV or radio production.
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