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The TrafficONE Blog
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
Another Way to Backup Your M1 Database
When you first start M1 each day,you see that Backup button on the first screen. When you click that, it makes ak zip file of your M1 database and the Logs folder. You then should copy the zip file to some external location. But, if your station has the M1 database in a network location,
How the Cassette Changed The World
It came out in 1983 and did change things, indeed. For the first time, we had a small, light, very portable recording system. The quality was crappy by pro standards, but listenable. Soon cars had cassette players in the dash. If you loved the Eagles album and the radio wouldn’t play “Desperado”, you could now
12 Predictions for the Music Business
This linked article below isn’t about M1 or radio, per se. It was an interesting read for me. I post it because we are all of us navigating our way through society’s media mix as we look for ideas and connections that might help us attract more ears to our station. What happens to the
M1 Blog Archives & TrafficONE Blog Update
There is a new Archives page on the MusicONE blog. I should have added this long ago because as I scan some of the articles, I see a lot of helpful thought-starters in the headings.
The Programming Operations Manual
A lot of M1 users are aware of my extensive career in this business and a whole bunch more radio guys know my name because several thousand of them bought my book. I published my Ops/Manual at the start of my programming consulting career..
Steve Warren On The Air
Alright folks, after some few requests and years of hold-out, I’m posting a couple of my old airchecks; me-on-the-air for your listening amusement. I really date myself here, kids. I played “A Hard Day’s Night” as a Current!
Your Voice Make You Cringe? Here's Why
It didn’t happen to me because I was fortunate to be born with a “radio” voice that sounded adult the first time I heard it on the tape recorder in Spanish class when I was 15. I only cringe when I listen to some of my old airchecks and that’s because what I was sometimes
The Best Idea I've Heard This Year
Last week, I was talking with Dan Lewis, the manager of a station in New Zealand. He’s got our whole package, Music 1, Traffecta and PlayoutONE. Dan told me he had begun adding advertiser logos to the Album Art tag field in the audio meta-data. This way, when the sponsor’s ad is playing, his Logo