Album Rock stations did it first, I think. Double-shots, two in a row by each artist played all day on Tuesday. Two-For Tuesdays the first guy called it. Catchy name and it was a big success, a programming idea that was soon widely used in lots of formats.
MusicONE Posts
With this revision 617, there is an important change for stations that use our multi-user mode and also have two or more Music 1 licenses.
The Advertiser’s order includes two commercials. She wants one of the two spots to schedule twice as often, at two-to-one ratio. Here’s how to do it with Traffecta.
A View-Only copy of a Music 1 library file is created each time one works with Music 1 in Multi-User mode. The Multi-user function means the station’s .m1 library file is being kept somewhere OTHER than the c:\music 1 location where it is kept when all Music 1 work is conducted from just one computer.
The essence of what we do is to play the favorite songs of our target listeners over and over. The challenge is to do that in such a way that our listeners will not get the feeling that we’re playing a much smaller song library than we actually are.
Everybody’s got one; an advertiser who likes to order complicated ad schedules. He wants 85 spots a week; 5 in mornings, 3 miday, 5 afternoons and a different schedule on…
This post is for stations using our traffic and billing software, Traffecta. It shows how to format, enter an order and schedule an advertising schedule for a News sponsorship. These basics are applicable to any type of special programming sponsorships.
Here’s video showing how to get M1 to automatically, fully schedule each log without any editing stops and without violating any music formatting rule at all. It involves the use of music scheduler’s Alternative Categories.
When you want data to import into Excel or some other database, the “csv” type is the most versatile.
This Post Applies Only to PlayoutONE and Sync-Harmony Automation Systems.
Of all the automation systems that M1 works with, our tightest integration is with PlayoutONE and its sibling Sync-Harmony. Any change to a song card in M1 is immediately reflected in P1.