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Revision 840 = Faster Scheduling for T1 Stations that use our advertising schedule and billing extension, TrafficONE should subscribe to the T1 blog, if not already. We don’t do a lot of blog updates; ours are just stuff a good many of our users should know about. Like the new speed improvements made within the M1 engine that makes the…

This six minute video covers the need-to-know basics of MusicONE categories. It includes the single most important screen in the software: the Average Turnover chart. Each category has its own rotation pattern. The turnover chart shows the repeat-play pattern for each category and helps you keep the flow in tune.

Backup and Moving MusicONE or TrafficONE to a New Computer You should make it a practice to backup your MusicONE and/or TrafficONE database at least once a week. It is simple.  Just copy the (station).m1 database file to some other media; to a flash drive, and external drive or the cloud drive of your choice. You could also email it…

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.

DJ Instructions for a CHR/Top 40 Station circa 1974

For some who don’t know, MusicONE’s companion enhancement is TrafficONE, our advertising scheduler and biller.  Most of the tutorial videos for T1 are on the Knowledge Base page here on this site. There is also a TrafficONE blog where we sometimes post information for T1 users on that site that’s not posted here on the M1 site. Here’s a link to…

The thing guys coming into music radio today don’t have that the young radio guys of my generation had is mentors. There is still no school teaching how to do it. It is a craft that is learned by doing.  Top 40, the very first radio ‘format’ was born in the 1950’s along side Rock’n Roll music and the first…

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

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…

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…