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Toll Brothers-Metropolitan Opera International Radio Network

FINAL CUE SHEET - (as of 04/28/16)

ELEKTRA (Richard Strauss) BROADCAST DATE: April 30, 2016 1:00 PM, ET In One Act

FORMAT TIME SCHEDULE SEGMENT TIME TOTAL TIME OPENING 1:00:00 – 1:11:40 PM,ET 11:40 11:40 Cue for AD BREAK/Feature #1 “...Endowment for Broadcast Media, and through contributions from listeners worldwide.”

AD BREAK/Feature #1 1:02:46 – 1:04:46 PM, ET 2:00 Ad Break/Feature Out-cue: “Nina Stemme and Esa-Pekka Salonen, from a recent panel discussion.”

OPERA in ONE Act 1:11:40 - 2:53:40 PM, ET 1:42:00 1:42:00

CLOSING 2:53:40 – 2:58:50 PM, ET 5:10 5:10 Closing Cue: “This is the Toll Brothers-Metropolitan Opera International Radio Network”

OFF THE AIR 2:58:50 PM, ET

Please note there is no station break, only an ad break!

**Feature runs while commercial stations break away for advertising. Note: Outcues may change. Be sure to check for format that will arrive at your station Friday before the broadcast.

Please report any transmission problems immediately to the Met Radio Booth at 212-496-7261.

STATION BREAKS: Each station break is 1-minute-15 seconds (00:01:15).

TWO AND THREE MINUTE AD BREAKS/FEATURES We have created two and three minute features of non-commercial material that air during ad breaks where some stations may cut away from the broadcast to run local commercials or recognize local underwriters. If your station is NOT running commercials or underwriting, the broadcast continues with taped features and you can just return to the opera broadcast immediately following each station break.

Operas with one intermission will have a two-minute ad break/feature immediately following the station break and later in the intermission a three-minute break/feature. Operas with two intermissions will have a two- minute break/feature following the station break and another two-minute break/feature later in the intermission during the first intermission and a two-minute break/feature following the station break in the second intermission (no second break in second intermission). Operas with no intermission will have a two minute break in the opening.

TRANSMISSION: STATIONS CONNECTED TO THE CONTENT DEPOT – Please be sure that your station has signed up for each Saturday broadcast. You can do this all at once for the whole season. If you are not signed up for each program you will not receive the broadcasts.

TRANSMISSION TROUBLE REPORTING PROCEDURES If any transmission problems occur during the opera on Saturday, contact the NPR Content Depot help line if your station is a subscriber. If the station is not subscribed to the Content Depot, switch to our back up streaming service at www.metopera.org/networknews and call the Met Radio Booth immediately at 212-496- 7261 for assistance. If you are a Content Depot user and you are experiencing any problems during the prior week, you can call NPR (202-513-2600) no later than Friday to set-up an ISDN feed that you can call into on Saturday.

PROMOS: Weekly promos will be available at both the content depot and www.metopera.org/networknews at least by Thursday, nine days in advance of each broadcast. Generic promos are also posted on Content Depot and www.metopera.org/networknews.

AUTOMATION RELAYS FOR RADIO STATIONS INTERCONNECTED WITH CONTENT DEPOT: For each 00:01:15 STATION BREAK, use Cue #3 (station ID); for end of broadcast use Cue #4 (end of show)

AUTOMATION CONTACT CLOSURES FOR NON CONTENT DEPOT USERS CLOSURE #1 indicates a 1:15 STATION BREAK. This will occur at the beginning of the station break(s) in the first intermission and second intermission. CLOSURE #2 indicates end of broadcast.