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NAB Radio Show

If you are planning to attend the NAB Radio Show in Dallas on September 19th-21st, make plans to stop by booth #701 and see us. We will be happy to show you what’s new in Version 5, or answer any questions you may have. If you need a VIP Exhibits Pass, we have a limited number available here.

RAIN Nominates The Cigar Station For Best Webcaster 2012

The Cigar Station, powered by MusicMaster, scores a nomination! Radio and Internet Newsletter (RAIN), Kurt Hansen’s respected voice of Internet Radio has nominated The Cigar Station for Best Single Stream Webcaster in the 2012 RAIN Internet Radio Awards Competition. Awards will be presented at the RAIN Summit on September 18 at the Hilton Anatole in Dallas.

The Cigar Station is an active voice for smokers’ rights and is affiliated with The International Premium Cigar and Pipe Retailers Association (IPCPR) and Cigar Rights of America (CRA), the industry’s largest lobby organizations on behalf of the rights of smokers, retailers and manufacturers. The station schedules regularly updated IPCPR Updates. Click here to listen.

Industry Event Calendar

If you are planning to attend any of these upcoming events let us know. We would love the opportunity to say hello, share a cup of coffee, or help with any questions you may be having.

• September 5-8: Christian Music Broadcasters – Orlando, FL
• September 6-11: IBC 2012 – Amsterdam
• September 11: Radioday Germany – Cologne
• September 19-21: NAB Radio Show – Dallas, TX
• October 24-25: Medientage – Munich
• November 17: Radioday Netherlands – Amsterdam
• December 5-6: Arbitron Client Conference – Annapolis, MD

MusicMaster Pro-Team: Keith Cunningham

Jacobs Media is the nation’s leading rock consultancy firm. Fred Jacobs created the Classic Rock radio format in 1983. Since then, Jacobs Media has expanded its services to include Rock, Alternative (“The Edge”), and Public Radio.

With a commitment to innovation and customized strategies, the Jacobs Media team of consultants keeps clients aware of new trends, using nationwide online polls, focus groups, and ethnography, going beyond the numbers and observing real people in real life situations. Station services include strategic development, cluster strategy, music management and architecture, production and positioning, personality coaching, and promotional, contesting, and tactical concepts and execution. Jacobs Media’s SmartSuite analytics package helps programmers better understand their stations’ music design and on-air presentation, as well as tracking the competition.

You can contact Keith at 310-452-7126 or keith@jacobsmedia.com.

The MusicMaster Pro-Team is comprised of experienced broadcast consultants and programmers who are available to assist MusicMaster clients with programming advice. Their services are available under this cost effective program with no long term commitment required, and can be added to your existing software support plan. Information on each MusicMaster Pro-Team member is available below. If you would like to retain the services of one of the MusicMaster Pro-Team members or have questions about the specifics of the program contact Mark Bolke Vice President/COO at (651) 405-9119 or Mark@MusicMaster.com.

See the complete MusicMaster Pro-Team Roster.

Quick Tip: Category QuickMove

Version 5 has a new feature called Category QuickMove under the Dataset, Library menu.  This option allows you to call up several categories and move songs back and forth between the categories. Since you can see all the songs in each category, you’ll know exactly what’s in each.  You’ll also see the original song and slot information for each category along with updated information for the moves you’ve made.  No moves are made until you save your work.

Category QuickMove is just another way MusicMaster helps you get weekly music maintenance done more efficiently.

Recent Feature Articles From the MusicMaster Blog

How to Read the Recap Report
by Paul Ziino

The Scheduling Recap Report (Dataset/Schedule/Recap Report) is a great tool for determining which unbreakable rules are causing unscheduled positions in your log as well as which breakable rules are being violated. (Read more.)

New in MusicMaster 5.0 – Custom User Buttons
By Drew Bennett

One of the many features we all love about MusicMaster is the ability to customize the look and feel of it. You can change layouts, move windows around, choose to show or hide elements. You can even plug your own logo into the software and print reports or just spruce things up a bit. Now, MusicMaster 5.0 takes customization a step further with Custom User Buttons for your main Toolbar. (Read more.)

Music Masters of the Month

Jennifer Hambrick and the gang
WOSU-FM
Columbus, Ohio

“MusicMaster helps the staff of WOSU Public Media’s Classical 101 classical music radio service bring beautiful, inspiring music to listeners all day, every day. All of the Classical 101 team members use MusicMaster to research artists, to find great performances of well known works and even to rediscover those great “spice” recordings lurking on their library’s shelves!

“Classical 101 Music Director Beverley Ervine is always elbow-deep in MusicMaster, scheduling the station’s 12 hours daily of locally hosted music programming. She especially likes MusicMaster’s multiple Title Keyword functionality: ‘Since the classical music radio format deals so often with excerpts from larger works, being able to assign multiple Title Keywords to each database record allows us to avoid duplications in programming.’ Ervine also appreciates that MusicMaster’s search filters can help her target and find in her dataset’s Library exactly what she’s looking for, and she enjoys finding creative ways to use Song Lists. ‘Classical radio programming tends to acknowledge annual holidays and other notable dates,’ Ervine said. ‘It’s nice that once we build a playlist for a special date we can add its contents to a Song List, so that when that date rolls around again we have a list of appropriate musical selections at our fingertips.’ “