Most syndicated programs can be formatted and scheduled using just one Category and one Format Clock. Weekly shows like the Wolfman Jack show in our demonstration most always have a…
Category: <span>General</span>
A lot of M1 users are aware of my extensive career in this business and a whole bunch more radio guys know my name because several thousand of them bought my book. I published my Ops/Manual at the start of my programming consulting career..
Alright folks, after some few requests and years of hold-out, I’m posting a couple of my old airchecks; me-on-the-air for your listening amusement. I really date myself here, kids. I played “A Hard Day’s Night” as a Current!
Well, it’s the genesis of my music scheduler, anyway. The origins of the other schedulers trace back to DOS. MusicONE’s algorithm was first developed for the Mac…
MusicONE schedules all Tracks individually, of course. Some automation systems have a “Rotator cart” function wherein M1 schedules only the one Cart number given to the Rotator. Then when the…
No-Repeat Workdays used to be a common formatting tactic. Listen to us all day at work and you’ll not hear the same song twice….
A Packet is a category within a category. You can use them to limit the amount of airplay some songs get within their ‘master’ category. You can also use them…
If you use Start-and-End Dates on some of your non-music units (such as Promos and PSA’s), you can add Start and End dates to each Card and then have those fields in a Category view for quick reference.
Some stations get a lot of duplicate tracks in MusicONE when they do a mass-import of a lot of song meta-data. This usually happens when the station is converting from one Automation system to another and the previous system had the duplicates. Here’s how to quickly remove the dupes.
It didn’t happen to me because I was fortunate to be born with a “radio” voice that sounded adult the first time I heard it on the tape recorder in…