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Welcome to MusicMaster!
This month, we are proud to welcome the following stations to the MusicMaster family!
Follow the links below to visit the stations and listen live (when available):
88.1 The Burg - Central Washington University * Heartbeat 106.7 - Little Rock, AR * Point 94.1 - Little Rock, AR * Roundhouse Radio 98.3 - Vancouver * The Wave 99.3 - Gold Canyon, AZ * UTA Radio.com - University of Texas at Arlington * 97.5 WLTF - Martinsburg, WV * The Big Dawg WICL 95.9 - Martinsburg, WV * WJSU 88.5 - Jackson State University, MS * LCCRadio 89.7 - Lansing Communty College, MI * Big 98.5/107.7 - Delmarva (Delaware/Maryland/Virginia) * Calvary Houston Church - Houston, TX * Hot Country 107.7 FM - Delmarva * 93.5 The Beach - Delmarva * OC 104 - Berlin, MD * 96.7 The Coyote |
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MusicMaster Genius Day Texas
Join us for a Texas-sized MusicMaster Genius Day on August 5th 2015!
The session will be held from
9am to 2pm
in the Brazos Room of the Renaissance Austin Hotel, located at 9721 Arboretum Boulevard Austin, TX 78759.
This event will be held in conjunction with the Texas Association of Broadcasters Convention. The Genius Day will be hosted by Learning and Development Director Drew Bennett with very special appearances by MusicMaster Creator/President/CEO Joseph Knapp and Sales and Scheduling Consultants Jesus Rodriguez and Marianne Burkett.
Topics include:
* Connecting MusicMaster to your other systems
* The least used and most time-saving feature in Library Maintenance
* The one tool that lets you diagnose issues in any database
* Our 'MusicMaster Genius Clock editing secrets'
* The Swiss Army Knife of Rules, and how to master it
* How to look at Turnover a completely different way
* Winning between the records with Special Sets
* Scheduling the best song every time with Optimum Goals
* Three scheduling goals designed to crush your competition
The cost to attend is $39.00. TAB registrants may attend for FREE. Attendees who register for Genius Day through MusicMaster will be able to attend the following TAB convention events:
* Wednesday, Aug. 5 - Opening Keynote and Kick-Off Party
* Thursday, Aug. 6 - Trade Show and FREE sessions
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Music Master European Genius Tour
Stay Close to Home, Become a Genius
Earlier in the year, ON AIR proclaimed 2015 to be the Genius Year in Europe. The idea was to host workshops in more than one city and on more than one date, so that attending a workshop could be easy and quick for everyone.
We wanted to let you know that we are in the final stages of preparing the MusicMaster European Genius Tour. However, before disclosing the final dates and locations, we require your help, insight, participation and most important: your feedback!
Below you will find 5 links. Don't worry, you only need to click the one with the language most suitable for you. Already filled out our survey? Well, thank you, and please "stay tuned" for the final tour dates.
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MDR Thueringen in Germany Goes "On-Air" with MusicMaster
Good news from Turingia/Germany! Just a few days ago, our friends from MDR Thueringen finally pushed MusicMaster's "Export to Automation" button. If you'd like, check out their great music mix live here.
This challenging project involved the integration of MusicMaster into the station's complex IT-environment, including a seamless interaction with dira!, the high-end play-out solution from SCISYS.
MDR Thueringen's homebase is Erfurt, in the state of Turingia. It forms part of the three-state-network provided by public broadcaster Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk (MDR) in the eastern part of Germany.
Pictured below is the team who's working with MusicMaster at MDR Thueringen: (from the left) Werner G. Lengenfelder, Alex Dietz, Katarina Ballasus and Markus Luhn.
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Werner G. Lengenfelder, Alex Dietz, Katarina Ballasus and Markus Luhn
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The MusicMaster Team is growing all over the world
This June, we welcomed two new members to the worldwide MusicMaster team.
Uli
Pioch, who is joining our Singapore location, has used MusicMaster for more than 20 years.
Uli
worked in many different radio stations in Germany, including serving as the music director of Antenne Bayern. He then moved onto the TV side where he programmed digital Music TV channels for the German market. He relocated to Singapore last year. We're happy to have him on our team to help grow the Asian market and serve our great customers there!
We welcome another long-time friend,
Chris Price, to our UK team. Chris has been a MusicMaster user for many years while programming BBC Radio One and later MTV-UK. Based in London, Chris currently consults media companies on moving into the digital century. He is a great guy with all the knowledge that helps stations put their vision into reality.
We are very proud and happy to have Chris and Uli on board, and we are certain you will really like them when you meet them in person!
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Chris Price, our newest UK Team member
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Uli Pioch, who is joining our Singapore team
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Celebrate Summer!
When you live and serve the listeners in beautiful Midland, Michigan, you know what it means to "celebrate summer." Sunny 97-7 PD, Brad Morgan, rewards station fans with the Sunny Summer Time Warp, a morning contest with Chris and Gary. Participants listen for a montage with a movie clip, song clip and television clip and must guess the correct year. Winners take the family for a bash and splash without the cash at Michigan's Adventure Amusement and Water Park!
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Congratulations to the Newlyweds!
We extend our congratulations and best wishes for the recent marriage of Dan and Danielle Kyle. Dan, a
fellow MusicMaster user, is the owner and partner of
Brandcast Networks
. He can be heard on the radio airwaves of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
MusicMaster would like to congratulate Dan and Danielle and wish the newlywed couple a lifetime of love and happiness.
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Music Master on the Move: Rick Ringer
A 40+ year radio veteran with experience ranging from small to major markets, Rick's career evolved from announcing to programming and management.
Ringer's career highlights include a 19 year on-air stint with CHUM FM in Toronto, during which time the station went from being the also-ran sister to the mighty 1050 CHUM AM, to a market leader. During his run, Rick worked in all dayparts, including the afternoon drive for the majority of his tenure.
Rick became the Director of Programming for CHUM Limited (now Bell Media) stations in Peterborough, Ontario. Overseeing the two-station cluster, he helped establish Country 105 as a perennial winner in the market. Building on that success, Ringer became Operations Manager and took on morning show duties with a third station in a nearby market acquired by CHUM .
Rick launched two stations for Bayshore Broadcasting in Wasaga Beach and Orillia, Ontario, as Operations Manager.
He became the General Manager at Larche Communications station in Owen Sound, Ontario, spearheading a $250,000 commitment for Owen Sound Hospital for the purchase of a new CT Scanner.
Philosophy - Your operation is all about the people: your customers inside the building, your listeners, your community partners and your clients. Work with all of them; help them achieve a positive life experience with your station and you will reap the rewards.
Professional Inspiration - Growing up, the jocks on WLS Chicago. Also, as a manager, Jim Blundell, who inspired growth as a leader and taught me the importance of paying attention to your people.
Next Radio Challenge - To continue a career in the best business there is to work in. There are not many who are blessed enough to be able to say they've spent their whole lives 'working' in a profession where the daily rewards are as great as radio.
On a personal note, Ringer maintains U.S. citizenship, has family in Virginia, and would consider a move back south of the border for the right opportunity.
Ringer may be contacted at: rickringer52@gmail.com
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MusicMaster of the Month
To dive deeper into Music Choice Dance/EDM and Music Choice Indie,
click on the links to the audio channels below:
Channel 13 - Dance and EDM
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QUICK TIP: Keyword Usage
Nearly every user has songs in their database that they don't air. Those songs might just be temporarily resting or perhaps changes have been made in the format that have caused the songs to be put on hold. Knowing how many you have of a particular keyword is important to make sure your station sounds the way you want.
There is any easy way to know the answer to this question. Go to Dataset, Library, Keywords. Pick your keyword and then select Tools, Show Usage Counts. Next is the key: You'll be asked to pick your categories. Only pick your active categories. You'll now see a new column called Slots that will tell you how many of that keyword you have in the active library. When you sort by this column, you'll see how deep you are with specific artists in your rotation.
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Featured Article from the MusicMaster Blog
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INDUSTRY EVENT CALENDAR
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