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This is everything, gang. The first post on this blog was 13/May, 2009. The sole purpose of the MusicONE blog is to dispense information, training and useful tips about the music scheduler. You can usually find an article or video with an answer to your question by typing a word or two into the Search field. But if you scan down the page, you may find some things M1 does that you didn't know about.
Christmas Formatting - A bit of History
Handling so many songs with the same title Here’s as link to my Christmas Formatting article.A long time ago, it was common for Pop music stations to not add Holiday music until Christmas week., strange as that may seem now. But then again, there wasn’t much to choose from. Yes, there was that wonderful, timeless Elvis Christmas album released in ’57. “Blue…
Standard Rule Enforcement Settings
Enforce Only the Formatting Rules That You Use Music 1 has more rules settings than 99.5% of people need. That last half percent would be the music director whose job is to produce music schedules for dozens of stations or streams each day. He could use the Breakable and Un-Breakable rules hierarchy and Alternative categories then set M1 to run…
Formatting for the Quarter Hour
Radio sells advertising by the quarter hour; specifically the average number of listeners will hear an advertiser’s message in the quarter hour where it airs. So, smart program directors format for quarter hour maintenance.
Linking - Elvis Intros
It is easy to record a bunch of Artist intros and link them to songs by the singers. Simple little things like this can make a fully automated station come alive. There are a couple more videos on the M1 site about linking. Here’s a refresher. The vid below runs 3:35
Formatting the Year End Countdown 2022
The single most listened to Thing on music radio is the Countdown. People love lists, of course and we soon learned that people remember to tune back in for the countdown shows. Early Rock ‘n Roll radio stations had all kinds. There was the Weekly Top 40 Countdown, yes. There was the countdown of the Top Five Most Requested Songs…
Christmas 2022
Strange to you but back in early days of Rock ‘n Roll Radio, most stations didn’t add Christmas music until the week before the day. Hard to believe, eh? For one thing, there weren’t a whole bunch of Christmas Pop/Rock records that would fit. Think about it. Bing Crosby/White Christmas. And a few minutes later, Chuck Berry/Run, Rudolph Run. They…
