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· Formatting

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…

Steve Warren

· Mechanics

Delete and Re-schedule Logs

There will come a time when you need to do this.You may have scheduled through next Monday the 11th when you have last minute need to re-schedule Friday the 8th.  To do that, you can just click/select that Log date and hit the delete key on the keyboard. You can then reschedule that date. However, if you do that be aware…

Steve Warren

· Radio Stuff

Olbermann On One-to-One Communication

We have, all of us, but One listenerOutside the USA, Keith Olbermann is probably unknown. Here he is recognized as a broadcasting writing and on-air performance genius. He has worked for big time sports stations in LA and NYC. He’s worked for CNN, NBC. Cable news MSNBC was launched with his nightly newscast as the cornerstone. Two American TV series…

Steve Warren

· Radio Stuff

How Many Songs Should I Be Playing?

Mike Joseph Invented The Tight List…in 1958.The question comes to me with some regularity.  How many songs does a successful music radio station have in its library.  My half-joking reply is: Probably half the number of songs you are now playing. There really is no winning number.  Top rated Current-Hits stations play fewer than 500.  Stations going after older demos…

Steve Warren

· Formatting

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…

Steve Warren

· Radio Stuff

The Death of Radio?

That’s What the Man Said Bob Lefsetz is a bodacious blogger about all things and culture. Primarily, he is a music guy who seems to know every living person involved in the music business or else someone who does know the famous person. His blog post with that headline hit the first of the week and, of course, has gotten …

Steve Warren

· Radio Stuff

Why Today's Radio Sucks

Why Radio Plays The Same Songs Over and Over You may know of Pat Holiday’s YouTube channel.  He’s a veteran program director from my generation now doing a valuable job teaching things we all used to learn by doing. From its invention in the 50’s to the end of the century, radio guys learned the craft by working with groups…

Steve Warren

· TrafficONE

Faster Scheduling for TrafficONE

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…

Steve Warren

· Categories

Categories 101

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.

Steve Warren