How to use Show Builder

Set your show schedule

The «Show schedule» card is at the top of Show Builder.

1. Open Show Builder. (From For You, «Set your show schedule» opens the card for you.)
2. Press «Set schedule», or «Change» if you already have one.
3. Set «Ready by», tick the «Days» you’re on air, and pick how many «Stories» (3 to 12).
4. Tick «Email it to me» if you want the whole written show emailed at your ready-by time.
5. Press «Save».

How the ready-by time works

Your show is written by your ready-by time, on your station’s clock.

Open your show

It’s under «Your show» with a «Today» tag. Press its name to open it.

Rebuild it

Under «Your show», press «Rebuild your show», then «Rebuild». You can rebuild up to 3 times a day, and the old show is archived, never deleted.

Change the order, swap, remove, add

Work in the show’s «Build» tab. Drag a story, or use its arrows, to move it. «Add» brings in a story from the «Library», «Swap» trades one for the best story Ava hasn’t used yet, and «Remove» takes it out.

Add a note

Press «Add note» on a story, type your angle or local tie-in, and click away to save it.

Get the pieces

The «Produce» tab has «In my voice», the story written the way you talk, and «Content», the other pieces, each with «Generate» and «Copy».

Copy, print or email

On the «Run of Show» tab: «Copy run of show», «Print», or «Email now» to send it to your inbox (up to 5 a day).

Build another show, or a repeating one

Under «Build another show», choose «Let Ava build it» (from today’s stories, or a topic mix) or «Start empty». To repeat one, choose «Let Ava build it», tick «Repeat: build this on the days and time I choose, and email it», then press «Save and repeat». Your plan sets how many repeating shows you can have.