On his last tour through Asia, Rainer Eichhorn had great meetings with existing and new clients.
Gregory Wong, of our Hong Kong-based partner company BTL, was putting together a string of very good meetings and some cool Dim Sum lunches.
We are looking forward to the next projects in this wonderful City.
MusicMaster Sheriff, Joe Knapp welcomes fellow Texans attending the 61st Annual Convention and Trade Show August 6-7 at the Renaissance Austin Hotel. Over a thousand will join Knapp at the largest state broadcast association convention in the nation.
Look for MusicMaster as we team up with automation partners, ENCO and Wide Orbit in the exhibit hall, and mark your agenda for Joe’s big presentation, “The Artistry and Science of Music Scheduling” Thursday, August 7 at 2:15pm.
Not registered for the full convention? Joe has a hat-full of free trade show guest passes. E-mail MusicMaster’s man from Austin, Drew Bennett, to reserve your guest pass.
The Broken Spoke may never be the same.
MusicMaster patrocinará la 7ª Convención Anual del Monitor Latino el 24 agosto – día 26 la reunión más grande de las emisoras latinas de los Estados Unidos, México y toda América Latina. La convención se llevará a cabo en el Pacific Palms Resort en Los Ángeles, California. Si usted va a ir a este gran evento, nos gustaría invitarlo a visitar nuestro Consultores de MusicMaster Aaron Taylor y Jesús Rodríguez para consultaciones si eres un usuario o interesado en la posibilidad de incorporarse a nuestra familia de MusicMaster.
El equipo de Consultores de MusicMaster también tendran un taller Bilingüe el martes 26 de agosto a las 10:30 am en el salon “Cherry Hill”. Esto es muy útil para todos aquellos interesados en los productos de MusicMaster, así como algunos trucos de programación para los usuarios actuales. El propósito y el contenido de este taller consiste en demostrar las ventajas de las nuevas herramientas que MusicMaster PE, LT, y PRO tienen para ofrecer a los canals de musica de radio y televisión. Únase a nosotros y formar parte de este taller para todos los ejecutivos de la radio, programadores, locutores, estaciones de Internet, y para cualquier amante de la música y el radio.
MusicMaster will be sponsoring the 7th Annual Monitor Latino Convention on August 24th – 26th the largest gathering of Latino broadcasters from the United States, Mexico, and all Latin America. The convention will be hosted at the Pacific Palms Resort in Los Angles, California. If you will be going to this great event, we would like to invite you to visit our booth to meet MusicMaster Scheduling Consultants Aaron Taylor and Jesus Rodriguez for some one-on-one consulting whether you are a current user or considering joining our MusicMaster family.
The MusicMaster Scheduling Consultant team will also be hosting a Bilingual workshop on Tuesday August 26th at 10:30 am in the “Cherry Hill” ballroom. This is great for all those interested in MusicMaster products as well as some programming tricks for current users. The purpose and content of this workshop is to demonstrate the advantages of the new tools that Music Master PE, LT, and PRO have to offer radio and television music channels. Join us and become a part of this content-filled workshop for all radio executives, programmers, announcers, Internet broadcasters, DJ’s, radio hobbyists, and any radio or music lover.
Software Giant Enhances Information Technology, Support, and Accounting Departments
MusicMaster announced recently the addition of three new team members, including an award-winning Florida radio program director, a longtime Las Vegas corporate director of digital technology, and a senior accountant.
Joining the company as a Music Scheduling Consultant is former JVC PD Dave Tyler, an entertaining voice on Florida radio for over 25 years. Tyler says, “I have been with WTRS alone for 16 years and there are few gigs that could entice me away from my JVC Broadcasting family, but this is one that checked every box on my wish list, the most important of which is the chance to work with Joe Knapp, whom I’ve known and admired for a long time.”
Longtime digital technology expert, Jeff Schroeder joins the MusicMaster team as Senior Technical Consultant for onsite installation, technical documentation, and automation interface expertise. Jeff shared, “I’ve known Joe Knapp and CTO Scott Wirt for almost 20 years, and I’ve been a fan of MusicMaster since then. I couldn’t be more thrilled at the opportunity to work with them and the amazing team they’ve put together.”
Additionally, Lorie Robers joins the corporate office as Senior Accountant. Lorie brings years of accounting experience to the international business offices of MusicMaster. Robers says, “I’m happy to be working with VP/Finance, Susan Averbeck. Joining an exciting, growing company like MusicMaster will allow me to utilize my talents and expertise.”
President and founder Joe Knapp, adds, “The exponential growth of this company has filled me with overwhelming pride and joy. It still blows my mind that the simple music scheduling program I created over thirty years ago evolved into this huge global company with thousands of MusicMaster users in every variety of entertainment platforms across dozens of countries around the world.”
Knapp founded MusicMaster in 1983 and it continues to be the world’s largest Windows-based music scheduling software for media outlets including radio and television stations.
For more information, contact:
Shane Finch
Director of Sales and Support
(352) 812-3727
Shane.Finch@a-ware.com
By Marianne Burkett
There are all types of rules available to you in the MusicMaster Rule Tree to keep songs from playing in or around the same hour they last played. In working with so many clients, I’ve come to find many who are daring enough to use the Day or Play Exclusion Mask rules, but have them set up strangely. So, I will explain to the best of my ability how to set them up properly.
Let me start with the Day Exclusion Mask. What does it do and what rules can it replace? (more…)
By Drew Bennett
MusicMaster continues to listen to our users and add new features to our products. With the release of MusicMaster Pro 5.0sr13, you will now find a new feature called Fail Alerts. (more…)
GDA – Asse, Belgium; Triple A – Suffolk Park, Australia; Radio Total – Madrid, Spain; Radio Dash – Hollywood, CA; CFLY-FM 98.3, CKLC-FM 98.9 – Kingston, ON; CFBT-FM 94.5, CHQM-FM 103.5 – Vancouver, BC; CJPT-FM 103.7, CFJR-FM 104.9 – Brockville, ON;
WSJM, ROCK 107 WIRX, WYTZ 97.5 Y-Country, SuperHits 103.7 COSY-FM, 98.3 The Coast – Benton Harbor, MI;
Talk 820 WWLZ Horseheads, 100.9 The Wolf, Wingz 104.9, Wink 106.1 – Elmira, NY; The Huddle 1450 WHDL, 95.7 The Pig – Olean, NY;
Heritage Country Station 93.3 WBTU, Classic Rock WXKE 96.3, Hot 107.9 WJFX – Fort Wayne, IN;
Radio stations have always run contests and given away prizes to lucky listeners. But who runs a contest for the radio stations? We do, with the MusicMaster Facebook Shout-Out challenge!
It’s simple and fun, and a great way to show off your awesome talents and accomplishments to thousands of music programmers all around the world. Just post a story about your station on the MusicMaster Facebook page along with a picture or video. Each month, we will select the one with the most Likes as the winner! The prizes vary from month-to-month, but there will always be something cool and unique.
Last month’s winner of a free copy of MusicMaster Personal Edition worth $295 was Andrew Charles Wilcox, the Program Director/Drive Home Host of 100.5 Cruz FM in Fort McMurray, Alberta. Congratulations Andrew, and thank you for being a loyal MusicMaster user!
This month we’re giving away a MusicMaster-branded gym bag that’s nice enough to show off anywhere you go. So get MusicMaster on your Speed Dial and be ready for your chance to win!
From June 17th to the 21st, MusicMaster Version 5 could be seen and tested at the BroadcastAsia Convention in Singapore. Again it was a huge show over 5 floors at the Marina Bay Sands Hotel (with the best Pool in Singapore!).
We had a great time at the booth of AVC, our reseller for Australia, New Zealand and India. Together with Greg Altena, Elliiot Stechman, Jesus Mantoo of AVC as well as Raoul Wedel of Wedel Software, Jim Hammond of Wide Orbit, and Cesco van Gool of Stirlitz Media, we had a great and a very busy time. We met old and new clients from all over Asia and the Pacific Rim, which was fantastic! We will be back there in 2015!
Rainer checking if the logo is placed right.
Before a show there are always discussions on how to set the booth up.
The guys from AVC are ready to go.
We had a great looking booth with very comfy chairs.
Last month, Rainer Eichhorn (ON AIR DIGITAL), Paul Amos (Xtra research), and Cesco van Gool (Stirlitz Media) were invited to host the first Senior Management Conference in Manila.
On each of the two days there were two to three management personalities of up to 15 stations in the audience who would give a 360 degree view on programming a radio station. Starting with the right research methods, going through talent coaching, music programming, and scheduling to the end of the chain, which was the monitoring and evaluation of the work accomplished. The guys had a great time with all the radio professionals from all over the Philippines. The organizer of that outstanding meeting was Elizabeth Aguilar, who is representing MusicMaster in the Philippines.
We want to thank her and all the participants in the Philippines for making this conference a great experience for us. We are looking forward to the next conference which is already in the planning.
MusicMaster’s Marianne Burkett joined Jason Singleterry from Wide Orbit to meet with Cox Media Group’s Florida engineers to go through the process of switching from Maestro to Wide Orbit.
This past June we’ve finished the second leg of the MusicMaster Get Together Tour in Europe. We visited Cologne, Munich, Vienna, Zurich, Milano and Amsterdam meeting many, many friends and stations. It was pure fun with lots of laughing, talking and, of course, eating.
The European MusicMaster Get Together Tour 2014 – By Numbers and Names
During May 22 through June 10:
We are very thankful for having met our friends from:
105’5 Spreeradio; 3Plus TV; 40TV; 40 Principales; 88.6 Der Musiksender; 94,3 RS2; 95.5 Charivari München; Antenne Bayern; Antenne Salzburg; Arabella Wien; Axel Technology; Bayerischer Rundfunk; BB Radio; Radio Teddy; Broadcast & Production (Newbay Media); Cadena 100; Cadena Dial; Catalunya Ràdio; Chello Multicanal; Class Editori; David Systems; Deutschlandfunk; Digitalradio; Domradio; Drechtstad Fm; Emotion Experience; Europa Fm; Flaix Fm; Flaix Bac; Fip Radio France; Fm Brussel; Grey Juice Lab; Groot Nieuws Radio; Gute Laune TV; Ilr Digital Radio; Kiraka; Kiss Fm Madrid; Kiss TV Madrid; Kisskiss Network; Lackner Mediasystems; Life Radio; M80; Maxima Fm; Maxmedia Medienconsulting; MDR Sputnik; MTV Network; MTV Spain; Nostalgie; Notice Branded Media; NPO; Radio Ö3; Omroep Flevoland; Optimaal Fm; Pinguin Radio; Radi Inblu; Radio 1 Zurich; Radio 10; Radio 538; Radio 8Fm & Puur Nl; Radio Access; Radio Arabella Radio B2; Radio Deejay; Sky Music Channels; Radio Fantasy; Radio Fm1; Radio Fm4; Radio Italia; Radio Max; Radio NRW; Radio Pilatus; Radio Research Europe; Radio Service Berlin; Radio Stephansdom; Radio Success Radio; Sunshine Radio; Top Radio; Radio Veronica; Radio X; Radio105; Radio24; Radiocorp 100% Nl; RBB; Regiocast; Rock Antenne; RTBF; RTL 102.5; RTL Berlin; RTL France; RTS – La Première; SRF; The Radio Group; WDR 1Live; WDR 2; WDR 3; WDR Funkhaus Europa; VRT.
We’d also like to thank our partners from ON AIR, Swiss Media Partners, Know Media, BVMedia and Top of Mind who did a wonderful job in organizing the exciting extravaganza.
ON AIR, as MusicMaster’s worldwide distributor, is looking for an additional Project Manager (m/f) with a focus on engineering and operations. As a digital native with a broadcasting background, you have the ability to juggle with scripting, programming, server and network administration in order to provide innovative and pragmatic solutions; as a project manager you always have an eye on the needs of our customers all with the necessary care in organization and documentation. Your tasks will range from handling MusicMaster support requests to complete planning and controlling of projects to rollout of MusicMaster and corresponding services.
More details here. Send your application today!
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.
Quick Tip: Special Sets on the FlyYou may do special sets (more than one song by the same artist) on a special day, like Two for Tuesday or Triple Play Thursday, but have you ever wanted to have that mini concert at random times? In those situations, changing your clocks isn’t practical. You can still make that special set quickly in the Editor. MusicMaster has two different keystroke combinations that will let you make your special sets:
If you’re trying to play multiple songs by the same artist, put your cursor in the Artist field. Then, depending upon where you the pointer is, these combinations will match the song before or after the pointer to give you multiple songs by the same Artist.
Keep in mind, you may need to adjust the categories you look in or the test results flag so you can see these songs since they’ll violate your artist separation rules.
The Biggest Loser
By Marianne Burkett
I just spent about 2 hours with a client that had reached the end of his tolerance rope in regard to scheduling music. He’s been working in the software for a few years – but rarely visited the rule tree, or did any kind of library analysis. He recently inherited a new format to program and was spending over an hour a day laying down categories and ensuring the flow was correct for each 24 hour period of music. (Read more.)
Dayparting by Partial Hours
By Paul Ziino
Dayparting is used to prevent a song from playing during a specific time. To access Dayparting on a song, add the Dayparting field to your song card or grid view. Now double-click in the field to open the Daypart Restrictions box. Here you’ll see the 168 hours of the week. To restrict a song from playing in a given hour, type a letter X in that hour’s box. You can also click and drag across a number of boxes to select a group of hours, then type X and all those hours will be restricted. Use the space bar on your keyboard to remove the X from an hour or group of hours, thus removing the restriction. (Read more.)
Alero Eghagha
Head of Music
Cool FM, Wazobia FM, Nigeria Info
Lagos, Nigeria
“We run three networks broadcasting mostly nationwide. Our brands Cool FM, Wazobia FM, and Nigeria Info offer a straight CHR format, local African music and a News/Talk/Sports format mixed with some smooth Jazz. We have used the MusicMaster for over a decade and continue to do so. It is a sophisticated software. I’m excited about the possibilities it holds for the future as a product and as a user of the software.
“I like the neat tricks it has that make scheduling easy, like when you are searching for a song after you have scheduled a log–you just hit or use the direct field entry with no need to go to the library. The scalable Rule Tree makes it easy for me to try out new rules without getting too many unscheduled positions. You can always go back to undo the rules and try again till you get it right.”
By Paul Ziino
Dayparting is used to prevent a song from playing during a specific time. (more…)
During Canadian Music Week 2014, the MusicMaster crew had the opportunity to visit Bell Media Toronto, home of CHUM-FM, Virgin, TSN Sports Radio 1050 and News Talk 1010, CFRB. Housed in an amazing historical building at Duncan and Richmond in downtown Toronto, formerly the Tip Top Tailors warehouse built in 1914, it was a blast to spend time with their programming teams!
From left to right: David Corey, Stefanie Simrod, Malcolm Sinclair, Sue Mills, Amanda Logan, Lisa Grossi, Justin Dumont, Joe Knapp
