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Video How-toIt’s pretty much the same every year.  A few new titles maybe. We’ve always got to deal with Title separation and multiple songs by the singers. For some help, we have three videos about formatting the Christmas season. Click to the Videos

Stagers Linked to Some, Not All Songs In A CategoryLinking Promos, Stagers and other tracks to schedule before certain songs or types of songs has been covered in some other videos on the site.  The question about the topic came up again this week and here’s the new video about it.  It runs 3:37

Never Less Than 60 MinutesMost commercial stations over-schedule a song or two each hour so there’ll be extras available in case the hour’s spot load is lighter than normal. If you are someone who wants a minimum of 60 minutes in the scheduled hour, you can set a clock rule to guarantee nothing less than that.Set Minimum Hour ContentMinimum Hour…

Apply the Rule Change to All Clocks At OnceThis short video show how to update Sound Code transition rules in one clock, then apply the rule update to all the other clocks.  The video runs a short 1:40

Schedule a Voice Track or Schedule A SweeperSituation:  You have two types of Stagers that you schedule before songs. Produced Sweepers (or Jingles) are to play before songs with Voice-Opens (like, Take A Chance On Me/Abba) and Dry-Voicers are to schedule next to songs with Intros (like, Mama Mia/Abba).  Then, the automation system will lay that voice track over the…

Spread Them OutWhen new items are added to a non-music category, they appear at the bottom of the list.  Here’s how to spread them through the list so they new ones won’t schedule close together.  The other way is to simply shuffle the category a few times. The video is less than two minutes.

Scheduling the Year End Top Hits CountdownA couple of calls came in this week asking about how do to this.  Here’s a four-minute instructrion video about it.This function uses a Selection category and only the Pro edition of M1 has those.

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…

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…

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.