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<span style="color: #172b4d">**Station Manager is a repository for station metadata.**</span>

> ⚠️ <span style="color: #ff0000"> </span><span style="color: #ff0000">**Are you using the Station Manager console? **</span><u><span style="color: #ff0000">**  **</span></u><u><span style="color: #ff0000">**[Click here for the Station Manager console user manual](https://docs.pbs.org/space/SM/5046330/Console)**</span></u><u><span style="color: #ff0000">**  **</span></u><span style="color: #ff0000">** **</span><span style="color: #ff0000"> </span>

## <span style="color: #000000">What Is Station Manager?</span>

** **<span style="color: #000000">**>> **</span><span style="color: #000000">**[Click here to download a Station Manager tutorial](https://s3.amazonaws.com/pbs.panda-prod.cdn/media/help/Station-Manager-FULL-4K.mov)**</span><span style="color: #000000">** **</span>** **

Station Manager is a repository for station metadata, which can be administered by station users via a console and API. It was primarily designed for two reasons:

1. To enable stations to manage their own data
2. To be the single system of record used by all PBS digital platforms

<details>
<summary>See which elements that can be managed in Station Manager</summary>

- Primary Call Sign
- Full Common Name
- Short Common Name
- Station ID
- Time Zone
- Website URL
- Donate URL
- Video Portal URL
- Is your station Passport Enabled?

- Additional Call Signs
- Passport URL
- Video Portal Banner URL
- KIDS Website URL
- KIDS Live Stream URL
- Facebook URL
- Twitter URL
- Tag Line
- Is your station a PDP Station? (PDP stations do not have Passport access)
- Your station's contact information including:
  - Email
  - Telephone
  - Fax
  - Address
- Google Analytics code

- TV Schedules URL
- Primary Channel
- Primetime Start Time (7 or 8pm)
</details>

## Learn More

- Use the [Console](https://pbs-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/SM/pages/5046330) to manage your station's data.
- [API](https://pbs-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/SM/pages/5046282) documentation