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Launching a Mini-BlogWhile talking with the owner/manager of a station in Geogia a few weeks ago, I went into one of my rambles about this thing we do, music radio. We chatted a while, then the guy said you oughta’ have a podcast and talk about this stuff, he said. I don’t think so, said I. No audience for it. …

It happens to us all…Everybody runs into this at one time or another….M1 starts giving editing stops during the scheduling run with the Same Song showing up as the culprit. That one can usually be fixed by simply moving the song UP in rank order within its category.Here’s a video demonstration. It runs 2:27

This Doesn’t Do What We Think It Might DoThis is a minor category rule that seems more important than it actually is. The “Allow Repeat after X-% of Song have played…”  You should leave that box at the 35% default.  The only reason for it is to ensure that some songs do not  come up much too early after a…

 The most important rules are those you set in Format clocks. Category rules are minor few and as a general policy it is best to leave these with the default settings.  The video below covers everything you see on thje Category rules screen. It runs five minutes.

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…

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…

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…