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…
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BMI has changed the preferred format for their royalty reports. They now want a .csv text file. The report template in M1 has been updated to make the report in the new format.
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.
5.29.22 Note: The last email from here had an old Subject line that referred to a Song Information site I’ve learned about. The post about it was not in the…
The Old Thing: Shafer Automation System “It’s not a computer. It’s a sequential electronic memory.” “It costs fifty, sixty thousand dollar.” “It’s not designed to supplant disc jockey’s, but it…
It came out in 1983 and did change things, indeed. For the first time, we had a small, light, very portable recording system. The quality was crappy by pro standards,…
Sub-title: American Radio Tales (1946 -1996). I happened across this book on Amazon and have recommended it to many old-hands who remember many of the guys on the pages. Published…
TrafficONE support guy Richie Gardner is one of the most experienced guys in the T1 world (knows more about it than Steve0 does.) His first tutorial video is about using…
I am pleased to say our guy Richie Gardiner in Dublin and joined us to provide the TrafficONE support and training. Richie was one of the early users of T1…
All through my music radio programming years, I watched, collected and studied music airplay and sales charts. Some guys are into sports statistics, some into stock performance. I would have…