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New Sales Director posted on May 31st, 2013

people_finch_shaneWe’re proud to announce the addition of Shane Finch as the new MusicMaster Sales Director. He comes to us from Asterisk Communications in Ocala, Florida, where he has been the Operations Director for WTRS and WMFQ since 1995, and also hosted the midday show on 92Q. His track record also includes some great radio stations, such as Operations Director for WDEZ and WRIG in Wausau, Wisconsin. Before that he put his magic touch on several stations in Des Moines, Iowa, as Promotions Director for KIOA, Account Executive at KDMG in Des Moines, Music Director at KRNQ, Program Director at KXLQ, and more. Throughout his impressive radio career Shane has been on the air as well. He will fit right in to the MusicMaster family!

New Director of Marketing posted on May 22nd, 2013

melanie_rossMusicMaster is growing again with the addition of Melanie Ross as Director of Marketing. Her experience in retail sales management and brand support are a welcome addition to our team. You may soon hear from her as she intends to make contact with every MusicMaster user to make sure they are completely satisfied with our products and services. Please join us as we welcome her to the MusicMaster family.

Making Life Better Through Nexus posted on May 20th, 2013

By Drew Bennett

Did you know you can streamline a lot of your workflow between MusicMaster and your automation system? Haven’t you always dreamed of the automation system and the scheduling database talking to one another? How about adding and dropping songs in real time or adding the song to your music scheduler the instant you record it into your automation system? These things can happen for you today and you may have everything you need right now. All you need is a MusicMaster license, a ‘Nexus-Ready’ automation system (Wide Orbit, Enco, Media Touch, etc.), the Nexus Server and your MusicMaster database. Today, we’ll cover some of the great new features you can take advantage of with Nexus and your automation system. (more…)

Nothing Scheduled Today in MusicMaster… Help! posted on May 6th, 2013

By Aaron Taylor

We often will get calls or emails in our support department from a user who indicates they’ve attempted to schedule a day part, full day or longer time period and nothing ended up scheduling. Here are the most common culprits, and areas to review in your databases that usually will point to this occurrence. (more…)

New Videos posted on April 30th, 2013

We have three new videos playing on our homepage now available for viewing: an interview with A-Ware’s Joe Knapp and On Air’s Rainer Eichhorn, a talk with the folks at Power 106 about why they love MusicMaster, and a look at how MediaTouch RealTime Interface works with MusicMaster.

Looking for Unscheduled Positions and the Manual-Assist Scheduler posted on April 22nd, 2013

by Paul Ziino

After you’ve run the Automatic Scheduler, many programmers will look for the unscheduled positions in their log—positions the Auto-Scheduler was unable to fill due to unbreakable rule violations, lack of options, or manual clock positions.  There are several ways to do this. (more…)

MusicMaster Enterprise and Changes in 5.0 posted on April 8th, 2013

By Drew Bennett

What is Enterprise?

Enterprise is the name for the MusicMaster system that allows you to manage one library of music, but schedule that music in several other scheduling databases. Think of Enterprise as your music library and your scheduling databases can import that music based on parameters you choose and then schedule it. A great example of using Enterprise might be that of a large music network that curates all its music in one MusicMaster Enterprise database and then assigns music based on format to its satellite scheduling databases. Those scheduling databases export logs to the music network’s vast selection of channels or stations. (more…)

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MusicMaster Users Talk posted on April 5th, 2013

Check out this short video of what users in California have to say about MusicMaster, why they love the tool, and what their favorite features are.