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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: Greg Mack
Greg Mack has over 30 years experience in the radio and music industries. Greg is sometimes referred to as the “Godfather” of Hip-Hop and Rap Radio, although his roots are classic rock…he’s also programmed Country and Western as well as Spanish Formats. Starting his career in San Antonio, Texas in 1975 at KTSA/KTFM, Greg worked his way into other markets such as Corpus Christi (KEYS-AM/KZFM-FM) and Houston (KMJQ-Majic 102) before moving to Los Angeles. It was at the heritage station KDAY-1580AM in 1983 that Greg Mack developed the radio format that is now known variously as “Hip-Hop”, “Rap”, and/or “Rhythmic”.
On the basis of major market programming and ratings success at such Los Angeles stations as KDAY and KJLH, Greg formed his own communications company, MacKNificent Broadcasting, LLC, to provide the corporate base for his programming, consulting, and business interests.
MacKNificent Broadcasting, LLC also provides music and programming consulting to various stations in large and medium sized markets and has been instrumental in the development of a movie based on his industry experience as well as his memoirs. Greg has been featured and/or mentioned in several film and television documentaries chronicling the history and development of the Rap and Hip-Hop music genre.
You can contact Greg at (559) 472-3210 or gregmack321@gmail.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: 2012 in Review
You can quickly determine how much of something you played in 2012 with the History Browser. After you set the Time Period to one year (or any time range you want) and pick the appropriate categories, change the Display to find out which artists you played the most, how much of one gender versus the other you played and even which category played most often to name a few. The Display list will be individual to your database using the fields from your data. Coding, Keyword and Text fields will be available to choose from. With this information you might use the start of the new year to tweak your database for 2013.
Recent Feature Articles From the MusicMaster Blog
Rules Reality Check
By Marianne Burkett
The majority of calls I receive during any given week, tend to pertain to poor rotations or too many unscheduled positions after running the automatic scheduler. Typically, the results are due to rules that don’t really fit the categories, coding or categories with excessively high minimum rest settings. You may also have rules that conflict with one another. (Read more.)
The Basics of MusicMaster Nexus
By Drew Bennett
We get a lot of questions about MusicMaster Nexus. It seems to have a mysterious cloak around it for some but it’s actually a very simple, yet powerful application and a great companion to your MusicMaster software because it can assist in automating tasks, farming information from your database and much, much more. Plus, anyone with experience in writing software can use the Nexus API to write third party applications to use with a MusicMaster database. So, let’s run down all you need to know to get started with MusicMaster Nexus. (Read more.)
How Goals Work
by Paul Ziino
We receive calls all the time asking for assistance with customers’ Rule Trees. A common question is “what’s the difference between rules and Optimum Goal Scheduling?” Today, I will shed some light on that very topic. (Read more.)
Music Master of the Month
Janet Trecarten
Brand Director/Operations Manager
Astral Radio
Winnipeg, MB
“Having worked with MusicMaster software for almost three decades, and having had the chance to work with other systems as well, I can honestly say it’s the best music scheduling software available. Not only is this because of the program itself, but also because of the great team behind the scenes I’ve worked with. Joe, Jill, Drew and Malcolm are the best. We’ve all experienced the ‘less than interested’ response to software questions and problems and it’s refreshing that the MusicMaster team are so quick to offer support and solutions to issues you might be having. They’ve also been more than responsive to ideas for upgrades and improvements (very rare 🙂).
“We use a couple of features that I’m not sure everyone knows about, but are real time savers. One is the ability to copy and paste a portion of your schedule to another day and time. For example, if you do a local countdown or classic show that repeats during the week, you simply have to enter the show once, then you can copy and paste it to the repeated daypart. The other feature we’ve been using is the “Export to Affiliates” feature that allows you to share your music schedule with affiliate stations. The beauty is the affiliates get a well-groomed schedule, but still have the luxury of localizing as needed. They simply import the schedule, then are free to adjust for timing, local shows, or regional artists they would like to feature.
“I’m sure the other ‘music scheduling geeks’ out there feel the same way as I do about the program itself and the support team. Truly the best!”
A new service release is available for MusicMaster, 5.0sr5. If you are doing a new installation on a Win7 or Win8 machine, we would encourage you to 
For the past 20 years, Gary Berkowitz has been helping AC radio stations improve their 25-54 ratings.
Dave Michaels
