Welcome to MusicMaster
Metro Radio – Hong Kong, China; Abu Dhabi Media – Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates; Interlochen Public Radio – Interlochen, MI; WUCF-FM – Orlando, FL
Above, On Air’s Rainer Eichhorn meets with Michael Vincent of Metro Radio.
5.0 SR-6 is now Available
A new service release is available, 5.0 SR-6. We’ve updated the Schedule Editor to better retain the grid position and bookmarks as you are working in the Editor. If you use Prompted Queries, you’ll notice these are larger and you’ll find edit helper buttons if you use Keyword, Attribute or Date fields. If you use the Broadcast Week option, you’ll now be able to determine if your log export should start with those settings in the Export Designer. Go to Help, Check for Updates to get this version today.
Broadcast Asia 2013
We will be at Broadcast Asia 2013 in Singapore at the Marina Bay Sands, June 18-21, for the first time with our own MusicMaster booth. If you’re planning on attending, please come visit us at booth number 4A2-10.
MusicMaster Training Library Update
Our Training Library contains short-form walkthroughs and long-form webinars on all aspects of the program. The walkthroughs are all designed to be very short so you can get the information you need quickly. Most are only a couple of minutes long. The webinars are more in-depth looks at various topics. We’ve added a new webinar that takes you step-by-step through the process of creating a Top-100 countdown. Drew Bennett takes you from creating the list to scheduling it and everything needed in between in less than 15 minutes!
MusicMaster in Broadcast & Production
Readers of Italy’s Broadcast & Production magazine will notice an ad for a familiar product in next month’s issue (right).
“Don’t rely on the past when you can experience the future. MusicMaster 5—the most advanced scheduling tool for radio, TV, web, and in-store.”
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: Alan Burns
Alan Burns & Associates helps radio stations increase ratings by providing custom strategies, music plans, morning show development, marketing/promotion ideas, and the training of your staff. We consult all forms of AC and CHR: from Mainstream, Soft, Modern, Gold AC and Hot AC, to Mainstream and Rhythmic CHR.
Company principals are founder Alan Burns, and Sr. VP Jeff Johnson who has been with AB&A since 1987.
Alan Burns & Associates is a small firm that specializes in precise custom strategies and close, personal attention to our limited client list. Our task is to help each client formulate – then execute – the one strategy that will result in success. We help radio stations increase ratings by providing custom strategies, music plans, morning show development, marketing/promotion ideas, and the training of your staff. We consult all forms of AC and CHR: from Mainstream, Soft, Modern, Gold AC and Hot AC, to Mainstream and Rhythmic CHR.
Alan Burns & Associates is proud to have helped hundreds of AC and CHR stations succeed in even the toughest of market circumstances. The result of our accumulated knowledge, experience, and skills is successful clients. A few of the radio stations we have helped win include great stations like Z100 New York, WBMX Boston, and WSHH Pittsburgh.
Contact Alan Burns at 251-980-7070 or alan@burnsradio.com.
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: Clock Element Usage
When you click on the pie chart icon in MusicMaster, you’re probably familiar with that visual representation of your clock. Did you know there are two other tabs available? You can see your Category Usage and Element Usage as well. Element Usage will show you the types of clock elements you are using (fixed, special sets, etc) as well as what kind of break elements (lognotes, traffic merge) are in the clock. Rather than reading down the list of elements in the clock, this is an easy way to review your clocks to be sure it contains the elements you want.
Recent Feature Articles From the MusicMaster Blog
The Format List is Controlled Inconsistency
By Marianne Burkett
So… you want your clocks to be slightly different each hour and you painstakingly create many, many clocks. That is one way to do it. However, in MusicMaster there is a lesser-used feature that I really like that will save you time now and in the future… the Format List! (Read more.)
Copying Music between Databases
By Paul Ziino
If you are responsible for more than one MusicMaster Database, sometimes you might have to add the same song to multiple databases. Why go through the work of typing all that data over and over when you can just copy and paste between databases? (Read more.)
Music Master of the Month
Miguel Cruz
Programming Director
M80 Rádio
Portugal
“After many years of using different pieces of music programming software, we recently changed to MusicMaster and we are very pleased with the outcome. Just two examples:
- The diversity of available rules and the ability to copy and paste them individually (or whole directories) to different categories is very useful to us, as is the infinitely scalable rules that we can define, with as many different settings and weights as we need.
- The Schedule Editor layout is completely customizable and gives us full access to everything that we really need to program or review the station log.
“In short, MusicMaster is a very user friendly and intuitive program, that has allowed us to have much more control over the scheduling process. Since we have been using it, the quality and the diversity of our programming has significantly improved.”
John Hendricks was born and raised in Northwest Montana and that’s where he’s living now.
Tyler Russell