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Music 1 Revision 884 Now Posted
A Glitch Fix for the SE VersionOn the first day of the new year, a coding error resulted in the category Average Turnover chart not displaying the grid with those blue squares.It is now fixed and back to normal in Revision 884.Click this link to download 884 in a zip file.Have M1 itself closed. Open the zip file named: M1884.zip. …
Radio Drops #24 - Constructing the Music Mix
Thoughts on Mixing Currents, Recurrents and OldiesIf you are playing ONLY Current Hits, or if you are playing ONLY Oldies, then different strategies apply. If your station is like most, you’ve got three main types of songs to Categorize and mix.
Radio Drops #23 - PsychoSeasoned Oldies
When the competing stations are playing much the same Oldies that you are, it’s the little things that make a difference.
Radio Drops #22 - Dayparting/Hour Restrictions
The Word and the Phrase = the Same ThingIn the early days, Top 40 played whatever were the current hits. The weekly Top 10 might include Frank Sinatra and Little Richard. Smart programmers played Sinatra in the daylight and Little Richard after dark. Dayparting. Later came two versions of the same Hit record, the three-minute radio single and the seven-minute…