Welcome to MusicMaster
Radio Laguna 93,7 – Belgrade, Serbia; BLACK FM – Budapest, Hungary; Radio Signal – Novi Sad, Serbia; MTV Russia – Moscow, Russia; MTV Africa – Johannesburg, South Africa; WHKQ-FM – Maitland, FL; CHVN-FM – Winnipeg, MB;
CFAM-AM – Altona, MB; CILT-FM – Edmonton, AB; CJSL-AM, CKSE-FM – Estevan, SK; CFXO-FM, CKUV-FM, CHRB-AM – High River, AB; CILG-FM, CHAB-FM – Moose Jaw, SK; CKMW-FM – Morden, MB; CFRY-AM – Portage la Prairie, MB; CJYM-AM – Rosetown, SK; CKSW-AM, CIMG-FM, CKFI-FM – Swift Current, SK; CKQV-FM – Vermilion Bay, ON; CFSL-AM – Weyburn, SK; CFEQ-FM – Winnipeg, MB
New Service Release Available
A new service release is now available. Run Help, Check for Update to get 5.0sr8. Among the changes: In the History Browser, the spin count column can now be displayed as a percentage of the total spins in the current reporting time frame. This version will allow you to close the Dayparting Editor dialog by using the Escape key even if the focus is on the dropdown list of dayparts. Several new Special History reports have been added for our new friends in Italy and the Netherlands. For our Canadian friends, if you need to review your Emerging Artist percentages, you’ll be able to do that in the revised CRTC Self-Assessment report.
Please contact your Music Scheduling Consultant if you have any questions about the changes or need assistance installing this latest service release.
I Like Music Partnership
I Like Music will be a new partner in the MusicMaster network to provide extended service to our clients. Andy and James and their team are in charge of delivering all new audio and data to the BBC and over 100 private radio stations in the UK.
Rainer Eichhorn, from our world-wide distribution company ON AIR DIGTAL, says, “With this new cooperation we will offer our customers the chance to not only receive every new song with audio and metadata right into their MusicMaster, but it will also give them the ability to enhance their existing data and complete it with the best metadata tags that I have seen so far. As soon as the integration is completed we will give detailed information to see how perfect that match is. We are very much interested in giving our customers the best possible tools to make as much use out of their MusicMaster as possible.”
James Derrick, Rainer Eichhorn, Andy Hill at the offices of I like Music in London, UK
Integration & Cooperation with 42NET in Hungary
From this fall on we’ll join forces with 42NET in Hungary. Karoly Karakas and his team are going to offer MusicMaster in their market, training customers and showing the upcoming highly comfortable integration between their 42NET Radio Automation and MusicMaster.
42NET is a full broadcast system provider based in Budapest offering Radio Automation, News- and Social Media solutions. You can have a look at their full portfolio of products & services on their website.
IBC 2013 Round-up
Our aim of this year’s trip to Amsterdam was to meet and to strengthen the relationship not only with customers but also with our partners from around the world. Main topic: redesigning our mutual workflows and interfaces to match the requirements for the years to come. Integrating seamless interaction is still the challenge.
We spent a lot of time at the booth from our new sales and integration partner in Hungary 42NET. They introduced their brand-new 42NET automation system.
We enjoyed one of the most beautiful booths at IBC, MusicMaster integration partner DAVID Systems.
And on Saturday evening, we had a fantastic dinner with our 5Tools partners Greg & Cesco from Stirlitz, Raoul from Wedel Software, and Andrea and Rainer from On Air.
We have had a chance to see first hand all the cool ideas and designs our Broadcasting Partners have come up with, and we are thankful for the support and trust we receive from them. This really is a business with character and spirit, and at IBC we have seen a lot of this.
MusicMaster at the Broadcast Symposium in Berlin
The Broadcast Symposium is back in Berlin with two days packed with interesting sessions and workshops. Friday the 1st of November is the workshop day: “Myths and the big unanswered questions about music in radio” or “We love music strategy – Music management works”, with Justus Fischer from ON AIR, Holger Lachmann from RTL Germany, Ivan Antala from Radio Expres in Slovakia and Christoph Pöschl from Brand Support. “Chill-Ativity!” – new ways to learn creativity with Peter Dollack and Andreas Roffeis from 2brains/Austria, “Spice up your day!” – 100% Morningshow with John Ment from Radio Hamburg – winner of “Deutscher Radiopreis”.
On Saturday the 2nd of November it’s time for some sessions with “Hall of Fame – Ideas from different markets” or the “G6 Summit – The presidents or just the big round”. Six of the most successful radio program directors will discuss and exchange their philosophies, their ideas and their crisis.
The event takes place at the music and lifestyle hotel “nhow” in Berlin, Germany. Special room rates are available under the heading “Broadcast Symposium”. Reservations at +49-30-290299-0.
Benefit from the “Early Bird” of 350 € per participant plus VAT or the special group rates (on request).
Happy Birthday Sky Radio
Sky Radio in the Netherlands just celebrated its 25th year of broadcasting. We were invited to their huge birthday party and enjoyed many live acts like Birdy, Alain Clark, and James Blunt. Below, Frank Kok (right) from our MusicMaster partner Top of Mind in the Netherlands congratulates Uunco Cerfontaine (left) from Sky Radio.
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.
MusicMaster Pro-Team: Dave Lange
He is recognized across the country as a leading expert in all forms of radio programming. While Dave’s worked successfully with all formats from News Talk to Active Rock he specializes in the Rock formats including Classic Rock, Classic Hits, Active Rock, Mainstream Rock and Alternative.
Dave Lange has an extensive programming, consulting and senior management background, spanning nearly 30 years. Serving as Senior VP of Programming for Clear Channel preceded by Programming VP assignments with Capstar and AMFM.
His “hands-on” programming background includes Chicago (WCKG), Pittsburgh (WDVE), Miami (WSHE), Grand Rapids (WLAV) and Lansing Michigan.
You can contact Dave at 574-273-0559 or DLange210@att.net.
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 Joe Knapp, President/CEO at +1 (262) 786-6519 or JoeKnapp@A-Ware.com.
See the complete MusicMaster Pro-Team Roster.
Quick Tip: History Browser, Included Hours
The Time Period tab of the History Browser has a configuration for each of the 168 hours in a week. You may overlook that when you’re running reports, but here’s a reason to consider changing that: Have you ever wondered what the distribution of an artist or attribute is during a core listening time? By using the Included Hours option, you can make sure the report you generate is only looking at the times you want to include. Simply double-click (or use the space-bar) on the hour. It’s a simple toggle on/off so your first click will remove the hour from consideration; another click will include it again.
Recent Feature Articles From the MusicMaster Blog
Integrating MusicMaster with Play MPE
By Aaron Taylor
Play MPE is a content distribution system that is available to the radio industry. Many in the industry use it as a “one stop shop” for all new content needed for their stations. In addition to the actual song or video, Play MPE makes available to its users additional data that can be useful in their programming. We’ll discuss how to obtain this information and integrate it into MusicMaster in this article. (Read more.)
What’s New in the Info Bar for 5.0
By Drew Bennett
Your first question after reading the title of this article might have been as simple as, “What the heck is an Info Bar?” The Info Bar is a quick navigation tool that allows you fast access to Library Maintenance, Clocks and Schedules. At the bottom of the Info Bar are three icons or tabs for these sections of the software. The Info Bar’s drag and drop feature comes in handy quite often. It allows you to drag songs to categories when moving them, it allows you to add a category to a clock and it allows you to drop a category right into a log you’re scheduling. There’s more to the Info Bar, though, and the arrival of 5.0 brings new features. (Read more.)
Music Master of the Month
Joshua Kral
Network Operations
The Nashville Network (TNN)/Luken Communications
Nashville, TN
“TNN chose MusicMaster because of its compatibility with other automation systems. Since we’re a television network, we were struggling to find a good solution to automate the music video scheduling that would also work with our in-house automation.
“I tend to rely on the dayparting feature. Since I use MusicMaster to schedule music videos for television rather than radio, I have to be able to sort through our extensive library to schedule the videos that meet a certain programs’ criteria. I’ve created unique categories and use dayparting to determine what time of day each video is allowed to air. This is a good way to keep our ‘Heavy Hitters’ rotating through prime viewing hours. It’s like I’m making mix tapes for everyone who watches us. I love it.
“Personally, I think anyone who sets out to start spreading the music THEY love and feel compelled to share is worth admiring. My dream job is to work as a Music Supervisor for a film company, and do original music scoring.”
James Derrick, Rainer Eichhorn, Andy Hill at the offices of I like Music in London, UK
A very warm welcome to our very first MusicMaster stations in Brazil!
From left to right: Alexis, Lydia, Melanie, Susan, Jill, Scott, Joe and Paul
This year’s SwissRadioDay was a big get together for all radio people in Switzerland. The major topics were “Radio and Online” and “Digital Radio and Entertainment Electronics in cars”.
Jeff Johnson is the Senior Vice President of Alan Burns & Associates, and has been with the company since 1987.
