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Deluxe TV – Munich, Germany; Radio Fantasy – Cervignano Del Friuli, Italy; Radio Delta 1 – Atessa, Italy
Thanks, MusicMaster Family in Germany!
This month the latest German radio ratings were published and according to this study, 53.5 million people 10 years and older, two thirds of all German citizens, are listening to radio programs scheduled with MusicMaster every day.
Top of Mind Media Branding: MusicMaster in the Netherlands and Belgium
As of July 2012, MusicMaster is represented in the Netherlands and Belgium by Top of Mind Media Branding of Amsterdam.
Top of Mind is a fairly young company but it has over 30 years of experience in radio, since its senior consultant Bart van Gogh has worked as a composer/producer for thousands of station call jingles and voice-overs for numerous radio stations all over Europe.
For the last five years, Bart’s core business slowly but surely changed from being a consultant for many radio stations and programmers as he started coaching and supporting air talent, producers, and program and music directors. Now the range of services has extended even more, with the ability of supplying stations with the best music scheduling software ever: MusicMaster.
Bart says, “As soon as I took a glance on this scheduling program, I was sorry I didn’t have my own radio station. I have never ever experienced such an instant addiction to computer software like I did with MusicMaster. The flexibility, the logic, the functionality and the support I got from the On Air people, as well as the online training videos, made me understand the workings of the software in no time.”
In less than one year MusicMaster found its way to over 10 stations in Holland and more will come in the next few months. “Training people how to use the software is as much fun as using the program for scheduling purposes on the stations we do music consulting for ourselves,” Bart adds.
Top of Mind is located in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
E-mail: bart@topofmind.nu
Phone: +31.20.31.20.544 (office), or +31.653.87.84.83 (cell).
MusicMaster at Lokalrundfunktage Nürnberg
We had a a great time in Nürnberg, meeting several of our long-time clients, having great conversations, and having great drinks and food in the evening. We are looking forward to next year. Here some photos we shot at the convention:
Justus Fischer of ON AIR DIGITAL flanked, from left to right, by: Mario Colantonio, Consultant; Guy Fränkel, Rock Antenne; Martin Pohlers, Radio Arabella; and Eberhard Fruck, Consultant.
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: Bill Jacobs
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.
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: Auto Kick vs. AutoBurn
Under Song/History Rules, you’ll find a folder of Hour Rotation Rules. Auto Kick is one of those rules. This rule is a great way to ensure protection in quarter-hour, half-hour or hour increments on fast-spinning categories with a search depth of one. The rule will automatically prevent same hour plays in the protection you’ve indicated, but only when needed. If the rotation is working, the rule will pass and nothing will be “kicked”. If you use our Schedule, AutoBurn feature, however, that option “burns” songs every time you have it specified, even if it wasn’t needed. Both options might accomplish what you’d like, but if you are looking for a lighter touch, you might want to consider Auto Kick.
Recent Feature Articles From the MusicMaster Blog
MusicMaster Spins Reports
By Aaron Taylor
Whether it’s for your consultant, group program director, a record label or your own edification MusicMaster has a number of spins reports that are available for you to utilize. In this article, I will cover your choices and how to find them in the application, detail the options in each, and give you a sample view of the generated report. (Read more.)
Rule Issues? Ask The Rule Wizard
By Jesus Rodriguez
In this blog post we will take a journey like a storybook does to meet the Rule Wizard who is always available to help us in a time of need. We often get calls asking why certain rules are not functioning properly. Are my rules to tight? May be to loose? Do I have the right times set for my rules? I just did a new database what rules should I use? I inherited a database but I don’t know if the person before me had the correct rules? Can you help us because we made huge changes to the database and now it’s acting weird? (Read more.)
Direct Field Entry While Editing Logs
By Paul Ziino
Sometimes you just know what you want to play, but scrolling through the replacement song list seems like such a waste of time. At MusicMaster we value your time, so we have many ways to speed up this process. Using Direct Field Entry when you edit will let you drill down to either the specific song you want or at least make the list significantly shorter. One quick note: What we’re about to describe may look like you are changing the information on a song. Don’t worry, the options we’re describing only assist in Schedule Editor searches and don’t impact the data on your song cards. Now, let’s speed up your editing! (Read more.)
Music Master of the Month
Chris Collins
Program Director
KRVV-FM and KJMG-FM
Holladay Broadcasting
Bastrop, Louisiana
“Initially, the reason I chose MusicMaster for my stations was a budget consideration. However, after seeing the feature set and experiencing the great one-on-one support, we have now standardized MusicMaster to all of our clusters. After using MusicMaster for that first month, it was hard for me to imagine scheduling without it. I am constantly learning new and better ways to do things.
“My absolute favorite part of MusicMaster has always been its ability to work with Excel. It’s so easy to manipulate data and create test datasets or even get a new station running quickly. Another feature that really helped on my Hip-Hop station is Rule Groups and the ability to daypart them.
“In Version 5, category quick move has turned into my best friend. I run tight categories and the number of songs is critical to having a proper rotation. Being able to see at a glance whether I am up or down a song or two while doing rotation is a big time saver.
“Finally, my favorite feature is having a dedicated support contact. It is great to have a relationship with one person, who gets where you are coming from. It makes support so easy and much less time consuming when it is needed.”
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”.
Here you can see Andreas Meier (Head of Music, Radio 24, Zurich) and Jean-Claude Frick from Swiss Media Partners enjoying their coffee break.
A very warm welcome to our very first MusicMaster stations in Brazil!
We will also join this year’s 
On the first two days of November this year, MusicMaster will be a big topic at the Broadcast Symposium in Berlin. On Air’s Justus Fischer will be part of the panel “We love Music Strategy – Music Management works!”. Another workshop will talk about the “myths of music scheduling”. Last year over 200 people from the European broadcast industry joined together in Berlin for this inspiring event. Even the location might be worth the travel. The music and lifestyle hotel “
