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New MusicMaster Website

Check out the new, recently-launched MusicMaster website. Complete with a new look, it’s now easier to use than ever! Quickly find out everything you need to know about the software, get in touch with us, listen to streams from stations using MusicMaster, and more.

Much Music Genius Day

MusicMaster’s Joe Knapp, Malcolm Sinclair, and Paul Ziino spent a day recently at Much Music in Toronto working with their staff of music librarians and programmers.  They covered all sorts of topics from analyzing histories to enhanced rule trees to scheduling shortcuts.  Educational for all in attendance!

The Much Music Librarian team: Jodie Epstein, Heather Middleton, and Liz Houlihan

Greg Baptiste – Programmer, Jodie Epstein – Librarian, Heather Middleton – Librarian, and Liz Houlihan – Librarian

Darren Bourne – Programmer and Joe Knapp – MusicMaster President

Central Ontario Broadcasting Genius Day

Joe Knapp, Malcolm Sinclair, and Paul Ziino spent a day with the program and music directors at Central Ontario Broadcasting. From the get-go the room was buzzing with excitement…and it continued throughout the course of the full Genius Day. They discussed CanCon and Emerging Artists, ways to use Auto-Platooning, Ctrl-Q and Ctrl-R in the library for quick searches, history linking and tons more.

From left to right: Paul Ziino – MusicMaster; Dave Carr – VP of Programming, Central Ontario Broadcasting; Adam Thompson – Program Director, Indie 88; Charlie Vigna – Music Director, Cool FM; Michael Religa – Assistant Program Director/Music Director, Indie 88; Craig Ross – Assistant Program Director/Music Director, Rock 95; Joe Knapp – President, MusicMaster.

“Thumbs up!” for MusicMaster at Central Ontario Broadcasting! Craig Ross, Dave Carr, Adam Thompson, Charlie Vigna, Michael Religa, and Joe Knapp in the foreground.

Monitor Latino Convention 2014

Aaron Taylor and Jesus Rodriguez took part in the largest convention for Spanish and Latin American broadcasters hosted by Monitor Latino in Los Angeles at the Pacific Palms Resort.

Jesus Rodriguez hosted a workshop where he demonstrated the power of MusicMaster scheduling software. He spoke about all the new versions of MusicMaster such as PE, LT, and PRO to current and future clients that joined us! Jesus Rodriguez then participated in a live and recorded interview feed to the Monitor Latino and Radio Nota members that could not make it to the convention but were logged in via the web and discussed MusicMaster’s key benefits.

Aaron Taylor, Monitor Latino’s Juan Carlos Ortizand, Jesus Rodriguez, and Juan Carlos “JC” Hidalgo at the Monitor Latino Convention

The Convention Floor

Jesus demonstrating MusicMaster in action at his workshop

Jesus interviewed by RadioNotas live stream to discuss the benefits of MusicMaster and recap of the work shop. 

Visiting Univision Radio

Jesus Rodriguez and Aaron Taylor made a surprise visit to MusicMaster client Univision Radio during their Los Angeles visit. At every corner there was a computer with MusicMaster in action. Beware! Your MusicMaster Scheduling Consultant might surprise you too someday so make sure those rotations are tight. We kid! We kid! Well, as long as you schedule our favorite song.

Univision Building 

Univision Radio LA Stations 

Aaron Taylor, Nando (Music Research Dept.), Jesus Rodriguez, and JJ Ayala (Music Research Department)

Spanish Broadcasting System (SBS) Visit

Jesus Rodriguez and Aaron Taylor visited MusicMaster clients Spanish Broadcasting System (SBS) during their Los Angeles visit to see if night DJs really have the most fun. They got the opportunity to hang out with DJ Pato and his show doing big things in the LA market.

Update From Last Month’s Contest

Last month in our MusicMaster Newsletter we had “Give Your Station a Shout Out” winner, Corey Tremere, Program Director at Ocean100 a NewCap Station.

We actually had a tie and our other WINNER is Craig Powers, Vice President of Cameron Broadcasting, home of stations KFLG Country, LUCKY, the knack Top 40 Hits, KAAA, KZZZ All Talk, and K-Star Legends.

All of us at MusicMaster thank Craig for giving an amazing “SHOUT OUT” to his Stations on MusicMaster Facebook and being a dedicated user of MusicMaster Scheduling.  Your awesome gym bag is on its way to you.

Music Master of the Month

Ronald Sebök
Music Director and Assistant Program Director
100% NL
Naarden, Netherlands

Radiocorp runs two national radio stations. 100% NL: an AC format with mostly popular music by Dutch artists, primarily in the Dutch Language. Currently the radio station has an overall nationwide market share of 4.5% and peaks in women 20-49. The second station is Radio 10, the oldest commercial radio station in The Netherlands, running an oldies based format. Radio 10 is the fastest grower in the Dutch 20-49 market.

Ronald says: “Do what you love. Love what you do. After working with RCS Selector and Powergold, I am really enthusiastic about MusicMaster. It is the first scheduling software that is able to do what I want instead of dealing with workarounds. MusicMaster really improved our rotations and sound. We use the software to the edge. Our favorite Optimum Goal is The Optimum Radial Spread. I know, it’s not magic. But it really seems like it is!”

Quick Tip: Queries and Song Lists for Specific Users

If you are using the security system (Tools, Options, Dataset Security), you can create library queries and Song Lists that only specific users can see. When you save your query or Song List, add “@username”, where “username” is replaced by the named user in the Dataset Security system. Anyone who is logged in as Administrator would see these as well. One of the benefits of this is that the user might see a greatly reduced list of options when accessing these areas allowing them to focus on just the ones they need to use.

Recent Feature Articles From the MusicMaster Blog

Summer Holiday Scheduling
By Jesus Rodriguez

You may already have a holiday grid ready to go for the winter break. You may possibly even have clocks that flip your station to an all Christmas channel 24/7. Those concepts are great tools to have so that you’re prepared for the holiday season every year. What about all the other holidays? (Read more.)

Spotlight on a New Feature in 5.0sr13 – Clone Hours
By Aaron Taylor

You now have the ability to clone portions of a scheduled log into another part of the day or other days entirely. This allows you very easily to reuse already scheduled content with very little effort, perhaps a countdown show, or a special feature or hours that might be time consuming to recreate “by hand”. Many MusicMaster users have asked for this functionality, and now it is finally available starting with version 5.0sr13! (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.

• September 3-6: Christian Music Broadcasters “Momentum” – Orlando, FL
• September 9: RAIN Summit – Indianapolis, IN
• September 9-11: PRPD Public Radio Programming 2014 Conference – Portland, OR
• September 10-12: 2014 Radio Show – Indianapolis, IN
• September 11-16: IBC2014 – Amsterdam, Netherlands
• September 25-28: Central Canada Broadcast Engineers Conference – Barrie, Ontario
• October 15-17: Broadcast India Show 2014 – Mumbai, India
• October 16-17: Alaska Broadcasters Association – Anchorage, AK
• October 21-23: Wisconsin Broadcasters Clinic – Madison, WI
• October 26-28: WABE Convention – Edmonton, Alberta