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Choose a TV market, verify the local daypart schedule, set audience delivery goals, and send a clear request to the right stations.
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A TV RFP should tell stations which market, flight, audience, dayparts, and spot lengths they need to price. Start from a Campaign with an approved objective, market, and flight. Decide which primary demographic the response should project against and when you need station responses.
Open the campaign's RFP stage
Open Campaigns, choose the Campaign, select RFP, then choose New RFP. If the Campaign already has a draft, open it from Your RFPs.
Choose the market and Television
Select one Campaign market, then choose Television as the media type. Tap uses the market's local time zone for the response deadline and resolves TV daypart schedules for that market.
Confirm the flight and response deadline
Keep only the broadcast weeks you want stations to price. Set a future response date that leaves time for the supplier to check exact program availability.
Tap presents local TV buying buckets such as Early Morning, Daytime, Early Fringe, Prime Access, Prime, Late News, Late Fringe, and Overnight. The exact local time window appears beside each label. TV conventions vary by market time zone, so verify the displayed schedule instead of relying on the daypart name alone.
For every daypart you keep:
Remove dayparts that are outside the strategy. Keep Prime, news, fringe, and other dayparts as separate goal lines when you want stations to price and project them independently.
The recipient list includes listed TV stations that match the request's market and media type. Review each station's identity, owner, and requested contact. Review the recommendation and recipient details for each station, then add only stations that fit the brief.
Each selected station receives its own station workspace. Check the station and contact before sending, especially when one supplier operates several stations in the market.
Creating the draft does not contact a supplier. Before sending, confirm the objective, flight, response deadline, primary demographic, exact local daypart schedules, spot lengths, goal CPMs, weekly targets, programming notes, and station list.
Choose Send RFP, review the exact number of stations, then approve the send. Tap freezes that revision and creates one station workspace per selected station. The supplier responds with exact programs, each on one calendar day with one market-local time window, plus weekly spot rates and projected targeted impressions per spot. Recurring programs use separate options for each day.
Use each station conversation for clarifications. A material edit to the objective, flight, audience, dayparts, or delivery goals stages a new revision; suppliers keep the previously sent copy until you review and resend. A deadline-only change is a separate amendment and does not create a new RFP revision.