by music1new | Dec 8, 2023 | Formatting
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.
by music1new | Nov 24, 2023 | Formatting
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...
by music1new | Sep 3, 2023 | Formatting
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...
by music1new | Jun 6, 2023 | Formatting
Radio Sells The Average Quarter Hour The advertiser wants to know how many people will hear his commercial each time it plays. That number is provided in the quarter-hour listenership estimates in our ratings reports. So, “quarter-hour maintenance” is a...
by music1new | Jan 17, 2023 | Formatting
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...
by music1new | Nov 30, 2022 | Formatting
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...
