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Legends at Legends

MusicMaster and AllAboutCountry.com welcomed seven incredible country artists and hundreds of CRS attendees at the inaugural “Legends at Legends”.

The CRS kickoff party featured Country Music Hall of Fame members Mel Tillis and Bobby Bare, Grammy nominee T. Graham Brown, MuzikMafia member James Otto, Rex Allen, Jr., and others.

The entire event was emceed by the “Honorary Mayor of Music Row” Charlie Monk.

Newcomer Sharla Dawn Ross warms up the Legends Corner stage.

Texan Zane Williams lit up the crowd with his own brand of country.

Western Legend Rex Allen, Jr. sang hits of the 70’s and 80’s.

Bearded singer/songwriter James Otto.

The very soulful T. Graham Brown.

Living Legend and Country Music Hall of Famer Bobby Bare.

Actor, comedian, songwriter, singer, M-M-Mel Tillis. Mel has written over
1,000 songs, 600 of which have been recorded by major artists. Tillis has
been voted BMI Songwriter of the Decade for two consecutive decades.

Joe Knapp, CEO/ President MusicMaster with Charlie Monk, Sirius/XM, The Highway, at Legends at Legends Party hosted by MusicMaster.

Music Scheduling Secret #1

Brian Kelly, operations VP for the Entercom Milwaukee group, reveals one of his favorite MusicMaster scheduling techniques. Rather than manually match his elements to the songs they would sound good with, he has found a way to use sound coding and segue protection to automate the process.

“Join the Family” at RADIODAYS EUROPE 2015 in Milan

Our network of MusicMaster partners in Europe are going to attend this year’s RADIODAYS EUROPE as a PREMIUM PARTNER in Milan/Italy on March 15-17.

RADIODAYS EUROPE has become the biggest radio industry event on the old continent with over 1300 participants from 60 countries. It’s packed with high-profile seminars, workshops and sessions and it’s definitely THE place to be if networking in Europe is on your agenda.

If you happen to be in Milan at the time please feel free to touch base with any of our European representatives, have an original Italian espresso at our shiny booth (Level 1, Stand 27-30) or meet us at the MusicMaster super-session “Brand like a Rock Star” with Steve Jones on Monday, March 16 10:35 am. (Don’t miss this one!)

Contacts:

Roberto Bellotti (BVMedia, Italy) rbellotti@bvmedia.it

Rainer Eichhorn (ON AIR, Germany) re@onair.de

Michael Buholzer (SwissMediaPartners, Switzerland) mb@swissmediapartners.ch

Cesco van Gool (Stirlitz, Poland) cesco@stirlitzmedia.com

Bart van Gogh (Top of Mind, Netherlands) bart@topofmind.nu

Location: MICO, North Wing, (http://www.micomilano.it/DoveSiamo_en.html)

NAB Show 2015

Radio Ink Hispanic Radio Conference in Dallas, TX

MusicMaster’s Jesus Rodriguez and Melanie Ross participated in this year’s Radio Ink Hispanic Radio Conference in Dallas, TX. Although it was a snowy and very icy couple of days that shutdown the entire Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex that did not stop this great conference from continuing as planned. We are the radio industry and radio doesn’t turn off for anything or any storms so with that mindset in place the conference moved forward with a great turnout of Hispanic Radio industry leaders. We must admit it was nice to see that nearly 100% of the participants were MusicMaster users. If you don’t believe us just take a look at the awards that our family won this year.

Jesus Rodriguez and Melanie Ross, MusicMaster and Operations Manager/Program Director George (Geo) Cook, K104 FM at Hispanic Radio Conference.

MusicMaster Clients won seven out of eight Medallas de Cortez Awards at the Radio Ink Hispanic Radio Conference in Dallas, TX.

Congratulations to:

Marketer Of The Year:
Monica Rabassa-Univision

Station Of The Year:
WXDJ-FM Miami-Spanish Broadcasting System

Broadcaster Of The Year:
Albert Rodriguez-Spanish Broadcasting System

General Manager Of The Year:
Fernando Robles-R Communications

Sales Manager Of The Year:
Corinna Ruiz-KOYE-FM, Tyler/Longview, TX

Program Director Of The Year:
Arturo Sosa-WSQK-FM, NY, NY, Spanish Broadcasting System

National/Syndicated Personality Of The Year:
Enrique Santos-Univision

Always win with MusicMaster! Contact our representatives at www.MusicMaster.com to find out how to get the industry standard scheduling tool you need to win too.

CRS 2015 Recap

The MusicMaster team enjoyed time with clients and artists at the 46th Annual Country Radio Seminar in Nashville, TN, in February. Partnering with Wide Orbit and ENCO, Dave Tyler, Jerry Butler, Drew Bennett, Malcolm Sinclair, and Shane Finch shared time with many new friends and swapped stories with numerous MusicMaster customers.

ENCO’s Aaron Johnson and MusicMaster’s Dave Tyler show off the system interface.

What fun these guys have sharing a booth together!  (Our automation partners Michael Dalfonzo and Jeff Dempsey of WideOrbit with Jeff Schroeder of MusicMaster.)

Among the country artists visiting the MusicMaster exhibit were Michael Martin Murphey (top), and Ricky Skaggs and Sharon White (bottom), welcomed by MusicMaster’s Shane Finch.

Catch our gang at the upcoming Great Lakes Broadcasting Conference/Lansing, MI in March; Worldwide Radio Summit/Hollywood, CA in April; NAB Show/Las Vegas, NV in April; Canadian Music Week/Toronto, ON in May.

MusicMaster Visits Sirius XM

Kyle Cantrell of Sirius/XM Nashville had a nice reunion with Joe Knapp, CEO/President of MusicMaster. Kyle is still loving MusicMaster after all these 20+ years!

MusicMaster at the National Religious Broadcasters

Marianne Burkett, MusicMaster, and Aaron Johnson, Enco our automation partner, at NRB.

MusicMaster Visits WSM Nashville

The MusicMaster gang visited 650AM WSM “The Legend” at the Grand Ole Opry Hotel while in town for the NRB/CRS (Shane Finch; Melanie Ross; Dean Warfield, WSM; Marianne Burkett; Joe Knapp; and Scott Wirt).

A view of the WSM tower taken during MusicMaster’s visit.

MusicMaster at Cabsat 2015

Visitors of the Cabsat convention in Dubai had several chances to see MusicMaster at our partner booths of AVC, Enco, SMP, and  Zenon. Rainer Eichhorn of ON AIR was cycling through the halls to meet existing and new MusicMaster friends at the different stands. The visits resulted in more than 12,000 steps a day, measured by FitBit, and hopefully some weight lost, but very happy to meet so many old and new friends! See y’all next year!

Congratulations, Classic 105.3!

MusicMaster congratulates Classic 105.3, the newest station making Austin, Texas dance.   Their extensive playlist will include songs from Blondie, Billy Joel, the Eagles, Neil Diamond, Roy Orbison, the Beatles, Elvis Presley, Stevie Wonder and Phil Collins.  Best wishes to Bob Cole and the entire rockin’ team.

Music Master of the Month

Clarence Natto
Director of Branding and Programming
Cox Media Group, Inc.
Jacksonville, FL

“MusicMaster makes scheduling a cinch with rule alerts. The software helps me notice when I’ve selected a song that fails a rule; I can even customize and activate rule alerts under the tools header.

“MusicMaster seamlessly works hand-in-hand with our automation system. Whether you drop or add a song, MusicMaster instantly recognizes the update and reconciles my music schedule instantly saving precious time previously spent on manual reconciliation.”

Quick Tip: Not Allowed

In your Attribute Rules, you may have noticed the rule “Not Allowed”. It does exactly what you think, preventing the code from playing. You might be asking yourself why would someone have a code that they wouldn’t allow. It’s not as uncommon as you might think. The most common reason is having attribute codes that work well at one time during the day/week but not another. Combined with a Rule Group that is dayparted, adding the “Not Allowed” rule will allow you to have complete control over when your attributes get scheduled.

Recent Feature Articles From the MusicMaster Blog

By Sean Ross (@RossOnRadio)

The Secrets Of The Address Book
“In the radio and music business, a contacts list is never just names and e-mail addresses. Even when radio and music were at their least volatile, any industry person’s address book was a testament to a business in constant flux. Rolodex cards (back when they were rolodex cards) often had contact information scratched out and updated by hand not once, but several times.” (Read more.)

Industry Event Calendar

There are industry events and conventions every month around the world. We always appreciate meeting our customers and finding out how MusicMaster is working for them. If you’re planning on attending any of these events, let us know. We’d love to meet with you if possible.

• March 10-11: Great Lakes Broadcast Conference – Lansing, MI
• March 10-12: CABSAT 2015 – Dubai, UAE
• March 15-19: Radiodays Europe – Milan, Italy
• March 26-27: Oklahoma Association of Broadcasters Annual Convention – Oklahoma City, OK
• April 11-16: National Association of Broadcasters Annual Show – Las Vegas, NV
• April 12: RAIN Summit West – Las Vegas, NV
• April 22-24: AllAccess.com Worldwide Radio Summit – Hollywood, CA
• June 2-5: BroadcastAsia2015 – Singapore