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Canadian Music Week & Broadcast Industry Awards
Each spring brings flowers, festivals, flea markets and
amazing music to Toronto. There, MusicMaster's Drew Bennett
and Malcolm Sinclair joined hundreds of broadcast and media
professionals for Canadian Music Week and the Radio Interactive Summit.
Radio Interactive has
been a part of Canadian Music Week for 32 years and draws together the
top names in both Canadian and International broadcasting annually for
an incisive look at the present and future of broadcasting and related
platforms.
MusicMaster
has enjoyed spending valuable time with our many Canadian clients and
sharing cutting edge knowledge for today's busy broadcaster.
We've also been thrilled to watch as the hard work of our friends brings recognition, awards and acclaim.
MusicMaster users recognized at the 2015 Canadian Music and Broadcast Industry Awards include:
| MUSIC DIRECTOR MAJOR MARKET (HARVARD) Chris Lynch, X929 - Calgary
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MUSIC DIRECTOR SECONDARY (NEWCAP) Anna Zee, Q104 - Halifax
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| MUSIC DIRECTOR SMALL (BELL MEDIA) Tammy Cole, 99.9 SUN FM - Kelowna
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ON AIR TALENT MAJOR MARKET (ROGERS) Garner Andrews, SONIC 102.9 - Edmonton
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| ON AIR TALENT SECONDARY MARKET (BELL MEDIA) Tucker & Sarah, VIRGIN 97.5 - London
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PROGRAM DIRECTOR MAJOR MARKET (BELL MEDIA) Curtis Strange, QM FM-THE BEAT (VIRGIN) Vancouver
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| PROGRAM DIRECTOR SECONDARY MARKET (ROGERS) Wendy Duff, CHYM FM - Kitchener (currently at CHFI, Toronto)  |
PROGRAM DIRECTOR SMALL MARKET (TIE)
Trapper John, ROCK 105.3
(ROGERS) - Medicine Hat
Mark Burley 99.9 SUN FM
(BELL) - Kelowna
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STATION MEDIUM MARKET (HARVARD)
104.9 THE WOLF - Regina
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STATION CHR (ROGERS) KISS 92.5 - Toronto
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| STATION HOT AC (BELL MEDIA)
CHUM FM - Toronto
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STATION MAINSTREAM AC (ROGERS)
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| STATION MULTICULTURAL (ROGERS)
101.7 WORLD FM - Edmonton
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STATION ROCK (CENTRAL ONTARIO BROADCASTING) INDIE 88.1 - Toronto
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STATION SMALL MARKET (BELL MEDIA)
99.9 SUN FM - Kelowna
Congratulations
to these outstanding award winners! We are honored to have these
talented music scheduling artists and leading stations in the
MusicMaster family. We'd also like to thank all of our northerly
neighbors for their warm welcome and the many great brainstorming
sessions. Keep up the good work!
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German Broadcast Training Institute to Hold Seminar on MusicMaster and Music Rotation
We are happy and proud to announce that the ARD.ZDF Medienakademie in Nurnberg, Germany will be holding its first ever two-day seminar on music rotation using MusicMaster.
The Medianakademie is the premiere training center for German broadcasters within the ARD and
ZDF Broadcast
Networks. This new music rotation course will focus exclusively on
scheduling using MusicMaster, which is now the official scheduling tool
of the
ARD radio network.
in the Medienakademie training center in
Nurnberg.
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Congrats to Our Music Choice Genius Day Graduates!
MusicMaster recently swept the heart of the Big Apple for a season of training and learning. MusicMaster Vice President and CTO Scott Wirt joined MusicMaster Learning and Development Director Drew Bennett at Music Choice in New York City.
The session was an enlightening experience on
both sides. Drew and Scott were well-received with an enthusiastic
welcome and some engaging ideas from the Music Choice team. The
participants walked away brimming with creative ideas and time-saving
tricks to implement in their scheduling.
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Before: MusicMaster VP Scott Wirt, Learning & Development Director Drew Bennett, and session participants from MusicChoice.
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After: A fresh crop of MusicMaster Certified Geniuses proudly display their certificates.
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While in New
York, Drew Bennett dropped by Vevo and Viacom to check in with
MusicMaster users there. All in all, Drew was thrilled to see such great
questions being asked and creative ideas in the works. It's always a
highlight when our team gets to hit the road and see firsthand how many
creative ways MusicMaster is being used all over the world!
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Stopping by Vevo in New York.
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Drew stopped in to chat with MusicMaster friend
Michael Martelli, Technical Director of Programming Systems and Media Services
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MusicMaster's Malcolm Sinclair recently enjoyed
the hospitality of the British Columbia Association of Broadcasters at
the Penticton Lakeside Resort, Convention Centre & Casino.
In addition to a fabulous resort, the
magnificent scenery of Lake Okanagan, and some of the best broadcasters
in North America, Sinclair looked in on MusicMaster client stations. His
tour included Bell Media's Sun-FM, this year's winner for Small Market
Station in the Canadian Music and Broadcast Industry Awards.
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Bell Media's David Ford, Jon Ferebee, and Mark Burley
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Congratulations to MusicMaster "Raving Fan" Brian Kelly!
Longtime
MusicMaster "Raving Fan" Brian Kelly was just named one of Billboard
Magazine's Top 10 Power Programmers. Brian is the Vice President of Operations at Entercom, Milwaukee and has been serving this group of stations since 1995.
MusicMaster
is proud to work with the best in our industry and grateful to Brian
for sharing his ideas and expertise with other users through our "Raving
Fans" and "Programming Secrets" campaigns.
Congratulations
from the MusicMaster Team! We also send a special kudos from those of
us tuning in locally from the MusicMaster corporate headquarters in
southeastern Wisconsin. You might even say we're "raving fans" of yours!
If you haven't gotten a chance to check out Brian's words of scheduling wisdom, click on the image below. In this short video,
Brian shares a time-saving trick he's discovered to automatically
schedule specific elements alongside the most appropriate songs.
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Congratulations to Five-Time Award-Winner Lake 96-1!
For
the fifth year in a row, longtime MusicMaster client Lake 96-1
(WLKG-FM, Lake Geneva, WI) won the Wisconsin Broadcasters Award for
Small Market Station of the Year. MusicMaster
Support Coordinator Paul Ziino stopped by their offices and studios to
offer his congratulations and answer some MusicMaster questions.
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WLKG Program Director Dave Michaels, the award for Station of the Year, WLKG General Manager Nancy Douglass, Paul Ziino
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Did your station receive accolades in 2015?
We'd love to feature you in our next newsletter! We're proud to play a
role in giving talented scheduling artists the tools they need to bring
their stations to the next level. To submit your award information,
please contact us at
info@musicmaster.com
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MusicMaster Welcomes Milwaukee Country Giant
Milwaukee radio's E.W. Scripps Company has launched WKTI Country on
94.5FM, replacing The Lake, a music-intensive variety format that has aired on the station since 2009.
Tom Langmyer, vice president and general manager of Scripps' Milwaukee radio operations, reports: "We're
on the hunt right now for personalities, including a morning show that
will be fun, local and informative. We'll deliver great country music
and local personalities as well as news, weather and sports updates from
our sister stations, WTMJ-TV and Newsradio 620 WTMJ."
"We
see an excellent opportunity to build a great country station in
Milwaukee," added Beverlee Brannigan, VP/Radio Programming for Scripps.
"While KTI COUNTRY will feature great country music, its true mission
will be to engage with our community in a meaningful way."
Check it out here: http://www.kticountry.com/listen-live
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If you are a "MusicMaster on the Move" contact us for a chance to be featured in our next newsletter!
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QUICK TIP: Rule Groups & Dayparting
Rule Groups
are a great way to combine tests in one place that apply to many
categories or may only be used during specific times. Here's an
important tip if you daypart your rule groups: Name the daypart so you know it's part of the rule group.
Why? If you change that daypart elsewhere, those changes apply
throughout the program. That means if you don't remember that a
particular daypart configuration is applied to a rule group, you may end
up making a change you didn't want. The same is true should you delete
the daypart.
Now
your rule group might apply all the time with no dayparting
restrictions at all. Pick whatever works well for you: "RG" or
"Rules" etc. Just add something so you won't wonder why your rules
aren't behaving the way you intended.
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