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NRB Nashville Recap posted on March 6th, 2014

MusicMaster attended the NRB International Christian Media Convention for the first time February 22-25 in Nashville at the beautiful Gaylord Hotel. In attendance were Joe Knapp, President of MusicMaster/A-Ware Software, Director of Marketing Melanie Ross, Sales Director Shane Finch and Music Scheduling Consultants Aaron Taylor and Marianne Burkett. The annual event includes training, general and keynote sessions, along with 130,000 square feet of exhibit space. We were lucky to partner with both Wide Orbit’s Jeff Dempsey and Enco’s Aaron Johnson for this show. What a great opportunity it was to learn more about Christian media talk to our mutual customers, and folks interested to learn how the products fit together.

Aaron Johnson of Enco demonstrates Nexus functionality between MMWIN and Enco

Aaron Johnson of Enco demonstrates Nexus functionality between MusicMaster and Enco

Marianne Burkett speaking to a prospect with Jeff Dempsey from Wide Orbit at NRB

Marianne Burkett speaking to a prospect with Jeff Dempsey from Wide Orbit

Aaron Shane and Aaron from Enco at NRB

Aaron Taylor and Shane Finch from MusicMaster with Aaron Johnson from Enco

Marianne and Melanie in the Wid Orbit booth at NRB

Marianne Burkett and Melanie Ross in the Wide Orbit booth

CRS Nashville Recap posted on March 5th, 2014

The MusicMaster team invaded the 45th Annual Country Radio Seminar in Nashville, TN, February 19-21! Partnering with Wide Orbit, Aaron Taylor, Marianne Burkett, and Drew Bennett shared time with many new friends and swapped stories with numerous, current MusicMaster clients. CRS is always a amazing opportunity for professional and personal growth, networking, and the chance to rub elbows with major artists in the format, as well meet and hear music from emerging artists.

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Customers crowding the MusicMaster booth at CRS

Marianne, Shane, Ty Herndon, Jeff Dempsey from WO and Aaaron Taylor at CRS

MusicMaster’s Marianne Burkett and Shane Finch with Ty Herndon and Jeff Dempsey from Wide Orbit with MusicMaster’s Aaron Taylor at CRS

Aaron Taylor with Julie Stevens, PD and Nate Deaton GM of MusicMaster client KRTY-San Jose

Aaron Taylor with Julie Stevens, PD and Nate Deaton, GM of MusicMaster client KRTY-San Jose

New CRS memories were made with Ed Hill/KMPS Seattle, Sean Ross/Ross On Radio New York Julie Stevens and Nate Deaton KRTY/San Jose, Jerry Butler/WRUF Gainesville, Rob West/WJVL Janesville, Tom Oakes/Ohana Media Group, Stacey Cato/CMT Nashville, Kim Hennes/All About Country Chicago…and so many more.

MusicMaster continues to celebrate our anniversary with The 30th Anniversary Acoustic Jam featuring Country Music Hall of Famer Mel Tillis, Ty Herndon, Anita Cochran, along with Hali Hicks, Lucas Hoge, Samantha Landrum, Zane Williams, Casey Donahew, North 40, Joe Bachman, Carissa Leigh, and a stage filled with incredible talent.

Hundreds of industry notables came to meet Mel and take home a personal photo with the past CMA Entertainer of the Year. MusicMaster founder and president Joe Knapp knows how to throw a great party!

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Mel Tillis (waving, center) with Drew Bennett, Joe Knapp, Marianne Burkett, Aaron Taylor, Melanie Ross, Laurie Knapp, and Shane Finch

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Heather Looney from North 40, Marianne Burkett and Melanie Ross from MusicMaster and Paige Logan from North 40 pose together at the MusicMaster 30th Anniversary Acoustic Jam

Joe Knapp CEO MusicMaster with Ty Hearndon and Anita Cochran

Joe Knapp, CEO of MusicMaster, with Ty Herndon and Anita Cochran

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; and Canadian Music Week/Toronto, ON in May.

Talk Radio Boot Camp Dallas Recap posted on March 4th, 2014

MusicMaster President/CEO and founder, Joe Knapp, shares impressions from this month’s Talk Show Boot Camp in Dallas:

“Not enough people know how valuable MusicMaster can be to talk radio.” This comes from my good friend, Kipper McGee, who found creative uses for MusicMaster while he supervised programming for the legendary Chicago news-talk station, WLS-AM. Kipper used MusicMaster to rotate “objects” instead of whole songs, including liners, stingers, bumpers, and just about everything else. Kipper shared thoughts about managing multiple forums.

Another good friend, the always-eloquent Valerie Geller, showered us with pearls of wisdom about creating great radio content. She’s one of my favorite authors, too. If you’re creating radio content, I strongly suggest you check out her books! In an encore performance at CRS a couple weeks later, she reminded me of the world’s shortest short story, written by the immortal Ernest Hemingway: “For Sale. Baby Shoes. Never Worn.” Something tells me that Hemingway would have written some great radio advertising copy!

It was a pleasure to touch base with other friends and colleagues too, such as Mike McVay and Steve Goldstein. Try not to miss Steve Jones the next time he does his Brand Like A Rock Star presentation. It’s priceless!

But the best part of the show, for me personally, was seeing Glenn Beck up close and in person for just the second time in my life. He’s an incredibly inspirational public speaker!

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Left to right: Kipper McGee, Valerie Geller, and Glenn Beck

The Relative Separation Analysis Special History Report posted on March 3rd, 2014

By Drew Bennett

Scroll through Special History Reports and you will see one you can use for just about any report you need to generate. Most of these reports are specially designed for certain agencies and offices to receive reports on music you play. Some of these reports, however, are more generic and these are designed for anyone to use. If you haven’t reviewed the Special History Report option lately, we’ve added to the gallery of report options in MusicMaster.  The newest report is Relative Separation Analysis. This report determines separation times on values in a field across to adjacent time periods and is a great way to track things like Song Titles and Artist Keywords and how they separate from day to day. (more…)

Salon de la Radio Paris Recap posted on March 1st, 2014

4,185 radio professionals joined this year’s Salon de la Radio in Paris. The three days of France’s main radio industry event were spiced-up with dozens of panels, workshops, and an award show.

We really enjoy attending this first international show of the year. It always feels great to spend some days in this very unique metropolis, and meeting good friends feels even better. ON AIR’s Thomas Roth and Mathieu Habegger from SwissMediaPartners visited the FIP crew at Radio France and longtime MusicMaster station Radio Classique. They also spent pleasant moments with Christie, Isabelle and Alexandre from Netia (top picture, below) and Dominique Wenger from Zenon Media. (bottom picture, below). NetiaDominiqueWenger_ZenonMedia

MusicMaster in Oceania posted on February 27th, 2014

ON AIR’s Kevin Hopkins spent most of this past month in New Zealand and Australia meeting stations and training future MusicMaster pros. He also had the chance to meet again with Cameron St. Clair, Sea FM’s Afternoon Announcer & Music Supporter. And, boy oh boy, this man knows his MusicMaster!

Both had interesting talks about the future of MusicMaster and API’s, MusicMaster’s potential to integrate with third party applications, and of course some wishes he has for future versions of MusicMaster.

Cameron and Kevin were joined by AVC’s Greg Altena. Greg, as the new MusicMaster distributor for Australia and New Zealand, was very happy to meet existing MusicMaster stations and long time users like Cameron.

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Cameron St. Clair (left) and Greg Altena (right)

Colorado Springs Genius Day posted on February 24th, 2014

Colorado Springs Radio Broadcasters in Colorado Springs, located about an hour right outside of Denver, Colorado, hosted Joe Knapp and Jesus Rodriguez on Monday, February 10th for a MusicMaster Genius Day workshop. Everyone was so excited about the session that they began firing questions before even saying hello. It’s great to see how much passion there is in the field about MusicMaster 5.0. We discussed every aspect of the software. We are noticing a trend at these Genius Days concerning Optimum Goal Scheduling’s new goals in version 5.0 which keeps blowing everyone away. We would like to thank Aaron Zytle and his team for coordinating the day with us. We kept our promise and even though it was exactly a week after the Super Bowl we never brought up the game in the Bronco state. Lets just say we love our clients to be happy with us when they are at arms reach.
crscoloradospringsPictured left to right: MusicMaster Representative Jesus Rodriguez; Gundy from RXP; Aaron Zytle, PD of RXP; Mehoff, MD at KILO; Ross Ford, PD at KILO; MusicMaster President and CEO Joe Knapp

MusicMaster 5.0 SR-11 is now Available posted on February 24th, 2014

icon_checkMusicMaster 5.0sr11 is now available through Help, Check for Update. Highlights include:

The Unscheduler now has an option to prevent locked elements from being unscheduled. Version 5 introduced the LogMemo feature that allows you to have a memo that appears when you open the log. Now, you’ll also be able to see the contents of the memo by just hovering over it when you view the Schedule Calendar. When the History Browser is set to display Individual Songs, you can now use the Combine Linked History option to merge the history of linked songs. You’ve long been able to set any hour, quarter- or half-hour segment in the Daypart Editor and now you’ll be able to change that split mode for all hours at one time.

These are just some of the new options you’ll have with 5.0sr11. If you have any questions, contact your personal Music Scheduling Consultant for more information.

Mel Tillis posted on February 20th, 2014

meltillisMusicMaster celebrates 30 years with Mel Tillis at our Acoustic Jam!  Your photo with  Mel will be coming to this site soon!