Many stations want to have DJ ‘prompts’ for certain songs on their daily schedules. You might want the DJ to mention the singer’s birthday, or who wrote the song, or…
Category: <span>Formatting</span>
We are, all of us, in the business of playing the same songs over and over. For some stations, it’s a few hundred, for other stations it’s a few thousand “same songs”. We begin with a well-curated list of songs selected to appeal to a specific demographic group of listeners. The quest is to schedule these songs in such away that the “same songs all the time” -effect is lessened as much as possible.
If you have a Category that contains songs that are Hour Restricted and prohibited from scheduling in certain hours/dayparts, then you may or may not want to “flip” the restricted…
I was on the air at Gulf 104 in Tallahassee when Elvis died in August of ’77. Today, I don’t remember which song I played after making the announcement about…
Here’s a music radio true-ism. Men make about 70% of hit songs primarily because boys make about 85% of all the records recorded and released. Now, since most music radio…
You can put Player Commands into the MusicONE format clocks and P1 will post your tweets and updates to the station’s Facebook. This function is available in the P1 Professional edition.
We’ve had quite a few new stations join the MusicONE gang in the past year and while M1 is certainly the easiest of the pro schedulers to learn and master,…
Linked Tracks are a way to have the music scheduler place certain selected types of things before or after songs. This four minute video shows how to format such things.
If you have jingles of different tempos, you have have Music 1 Pro put only Fast jingles before Fast songs and Slow Jingles before Slow ones.
This category rule doesn’t do what you think it does. It doesn’t improve song rotations nor efficiency. We created it as a balm for two specific scenarios. First, it prevents songs from scheduling again much too soon after a category shuffle. Second, it helps ensure that songs you might manually search-and-schedule won’t be scheduled by M1 close to that manually scheduled one.