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.”
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! (more…)
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.
Classic FM – Naarden, Netherlands; WAKY – Radcliff, KY; WLVK – Fort Knox, KY;
KSHE, KIHT, KPNT, KFTK – St. Louis, MO
Hong and Gregory from BTL, MusicMaster’s Hong Kong partner, stand in front of the Whampoa boat shopping center in Kowloon where Metro Radio is located (right). Hong and Gregory are helping to set up Metro Radio to switch to MusicMaster. It’s good to have great MusicMaster partners all around the world!
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.
John Hendricks was born and raised in Northwest Montana and that’s where he’s living now.
“After many years of living ‘up and down the dial’, I’m sinking roots in my hometown. Fortunately, I can serve my clients from here—with a little travel.”
On-air, he’s been featured on top-rated stations in Denver, Seattle and nationally on the syndicated John Hendricks Overnight.
At Music Choice/New York, he experienced first-hand the promise—and the challenges of creating content for internet, cable and cell phone technologies. When boiled down to the needs of a client, Hendricks is a sought-after source of ideas and solutions for stations in every market size.
John is an avid outdoorsman and a putz on the golf course. His motorcycle tours have taken him the length and breadth of North America. He is also a licensed Private Pilot and Amateur Radio station operator.
You can contact John at 406.755.4779 or john@JohnHendricksBroadcast.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: Additional Category InformationWith Version 5, you can now display additional information for your categories in the InfoBar. You can choose either the number of songs, the number of slots or average runtime of the songs. To do this, go to Tools, Options, Library Editor Options. In the InfoBar Option section use the drop down to select one of these options. MusicMaster will automatically calculate this information and add it to the InfoBar listing. As you make changes in the database, the InfoBar will continue to update. You can force it to update as well by right-clicking in the InfoBar and choosing the Refresh option from the context menu.
Auto Platoon – One of most under used features in MusicMaster?
By Aaron Taylor
We don’t really keep track, but we believe that Auto Platoon is one of the most underutilized features in MusicMaster. It is a very powerful tool for the overall rotation of your music, and we just don’t see it used often, or get many questions about how to best utilize it. (Read more.)
An Introduction to Special History Reports
By Drew Bennett
MusicMaster works closely with various organizations that require special reports to be generated from a music scheduler. Special History reports is the section of MusicMaster dedicated to generating specific reports for organizations around the world. You will find this section of MusicMaster by choosing Dataset, Analysis, Special History Reports. (Read more.)
Tyler Russell
Program Director
KXRN
Laguna Beach, CA
“Having only used Selector, we were really concerned about the work load when starting from scratch with our 1,500 song library at our new non-commercial station KX 93.5. But we couldn’t believe how easy it was to import our entire library, categorize them, and get scheduling right away with MusicMaster, especially due to the fantastic support. Thanks MusicMaster!”
Hong and Gregory from BTL, MusicMaster’s Hong Kong partner, stand in front of the Whampoa boat shopping center in Koowloon where Metro Radio is located (right). Hong and Gregory are helping to set up Metro Radio to switch to MusicMaster. It’s good to have great MusicMaster partners all around the world!
By Drew Bennett
MusicMaster works closely with various organizations that require special reports to be generated from a music scheduler. Special History reports is the section of MusicMaster dedicated to generating specific reports for organizations around the world. You will find this section of MusicMaster by choosing Dataset, Analysis, Special History Reports. (more…)
We don’t really keep track, but we believe that Auto-Platoon is one of the most underutilized features in MusicMaster. It is a very powerful tool for the overall rotation of your music, and we just don’t see it used often, or get many questions about how to best utilize it.
If you’re interested in the basics of Auto-Platoon, you should read Marianne Burkett’s primer on the subject. My focus is directed more towards getting you to consider all the ways you can use Auto-Platoon to maximize the potential of your library. (more…)
Radio Charivari, Radio Gong – Würzburg, Germany; Story FM – Diegem, Belgium; Radio 24 – Milano, Italy; Planeta FM – Warszava, Poland
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.
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 ReviewYou 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.
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.)
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!”
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. (more…)
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. (more…)
