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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):
Easy 93.1FM (Miami, FL); 102.1 KAHM (Prescott, AZ); WBOG 1460AM (Newark, NJ); Z103.3 (Fergus Falls, MN); Thunder Country 100.1FM (Portage, WI); WMID - Classic Oldies (Atlantic City, NJ); 94.5 WFMB (Tomah, WI); 90.7 WVAS (Montgomery, AL); 95.1 WAYV (Atlantic City, NJ); 95.9 WBKY (Portage, WI); AM900 WDLS (Portage, WI); 91.7 WSUM (Madison, WI); WMTU 91.9FM (Houghton, MI); 106.9 WNNO-FM (Wisconsin Dells, WI); WPDR AM 1350 (Portage, WI); WP88.7 FM (Wayne, NJ); 96.1 WTTH-FM (Atlantic City, NJ); WYSU-FM 88.5 (Youngstown, OH); Radio Consulting Services (Aurora, CO).
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MusicMaster Version 6 Now Available, Full of Exciting New Features!
Drumroll please......
We're proud to announce the highly anticipated new release of MusicMaster Version 6! This major update includes new tools that'll help you save time and get better results. You can read about them below, browse the
screen tour or watch the feature tour video!
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Recursive Scheduling for Migrating Positions - MusicMaster once again takes a quantum leap into the future with the new and exclusive Recursive Scheduling option. Until now, music scheduling software filled just one clock position at a time. With Recursive Scheduling, millions of combinations are checked as each song is tested in every possible clock position. This places the best songs in the best possible positions within each hour. This is uniquely adept at maintaining optimum artist separation in ultra-tight rotation categories while dramatically reducing the chance of leaving any positions unscheduled.
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Rule Filter Tool - In the Song Replacement Dialog, you can now see how many songs are being
blocked by your rules and which rules blocked them. You can then temporarily disable any rule for that position to allow more songs to pick from.
- Library Query Element - In your clock, you can create a filter based on any combination of song fields. When this element gets scheduled, only songs matching your filters get tested.
- Enhanced Search Bar - MusicMaster's internal search engine just got a lot more powerful. Now you can search within as many fields as you'd like.
- New Prompted Queries - You can now set the Prompt text to the same listing for multiple fields. This means you can set it to look in multiple places, but not have multiple lines in your query.
- Make Your Own Hot Keys - You'll now find ten user-defined hot keys for both Library Maintenance and in the Schedule Editor. Choose your favorite actions from the list and assign them to the Alt keys.
Here's how to get Version 6:
If you have a subscription license:
Simply click on Check For Update in MusicMaster's Help menu.
If you aren't on a subscription:
how you add Version 6 to your toolkit!
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Our New Website Is Live!
We're excited to announce MusicMaster.com's new look! Over the summer, we worked hard to create a website that fits what our brand is all about - you! We wanted to make a site that was easier to navigate, packed full of helpful videos and information and showcases the MusicMaster family.
Some notable things to check out include:
- Get information on our
Genius Days and sign-up to participate
- Watch updated tutorials and
Walkthroughs on our new video player
- Listen to MusicMaster stations from around the world on our
Station Tuner (and even add your own!)
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Blog is now searchable and includes tags to help you find tips, tricks and helpful articles from our MSCs
The Support Portal will be up and running soon, but for now, American and Canadian customers can continue to reach us directly by phone. You can also download Service Releases on our
Be sure to bookmark us and stop back often to see the latest training materials and announcements!
www.musicmaster.com
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NAB Radio Show 2015
Welcome Peaches, to the "Gate City to the South". This October in Atlanta, the National Association of Broadcasters and the Radio Advertising Bureau joined forces to energize the radio industry with new technologies and visionary voices. Over 2,100 excited broadcasters were in attendance.
Where else can you have breakfast with Tim Moore, lunch with Valerie Geller, snacks with Sean Ross, celebrate a birthday with Art Vuolo, and have dinner with Ginny Morris?
MusicMaster President/CEO Joe Knapp and our team rocked the exhibit floor with the brand new demonstration of MusicMaster PRO Version 6. Attendees found us displaying our latest interfaces in the ENCO, iMediaTouch and Wide Orbit exhibit areas.
This year's Radio Show included fabulous lunches, intriguing entertainment, a live performance by The Band Perry, hard-earned Marconi Awards, and a chat with Aerosmith legend Steven Tyler.
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MusicMaster's Dave Tyler (left) and Jerry Butler (right) visit with Renel Choiselat of OMT Technologies.
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George "Geo" Cook from K104 Dallas, and Jerry Butler, MusicMaster.
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John Graefe of Entercom shares a thought with MusicMaster President Joe Knapp.
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Melanie Ross, MusicMaster; and Gary Kristiansen, OMT
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Jerry Butler, MusicMaster with Jim Hammond, WideOrbit Automation
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Melanie Ross, MusicMaster with Danny Tankersley, WideOrbit
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Jerry Butler, MusicMaster with Broadcast Team from University of Northern Iowa.
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Jerry Butler and Dave Tyler demo MusicMaster Version 6
to Ken Frommert and Aaron Johnson of ENCO.
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Recap: Classical Genius Day at PRPD Convention
The Public Radio Program Directors (PRPD) conference in Pittsburgh survived the rain and all the traffic from baseball and football fans who have energized the city of three rivers. Jill Sorenson spent several days visiting with MusicMaster clients from around the country discussing how to get more out of the software and utilize the tools to create better playlists. There were two sessions tailored specifically to classical music and we were thrilled to see that every panelist in those two sessions was a MusicMaster user.
The conference kicked off with a MusicMaster Genius Day Session designed specifically to address the needs and concerns of classical programmers. It was a productive session with users getting tips while we picked up ideas on how we can make the software even better. The group gathered for a group photo after enjoying the Mozart chocolates that were a special treat. Thank you to everyone who attended, and to our hosts and special guests: Joe Knapp, Drew Bennett, Jill Sorenson, Rainer Eichhorn (ON AIR), Miriam Vanneste-Vratz (WDR - Cologne, Germany) and Bettina Zacher (Klassik Radio - Hamburg, Germany).
In case you missed it: We are creating a special video presentation of the entire Genius Day session for those who could not participate. Stay tuned for more information on how to download the session.
We're looking forward to continuing our association with PRPD and will see you again at the 2016 conference in Phoenix.
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Radio's Best Friend Turns 70!
Famous radio historian, Arthur Vuolo, Jr. celebrated his special day (October 1) with several thousand of his best friends at the NAB Radio Show in Atlanta. Vuolo has spent a good portion of his adult life visiting radio stations recording the industries finest air personalities.
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Reminder: MusicMaster's New Headquarters and Contact Information
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Be sure to notify your office manager to update their address books:
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MusicMaster's new address is
8330 LBJ Freeway, Suite B1050, Dallas TX 75243
The corporate business phone number is
The former business phone number (262-717-2220) will remain active
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October Sales Tip: How to Listen to the Customer
This month, we'd like to present a 22 minute podcast from Jason Jennings entitled "How to Listen to the Customer". Jason is a best-selling author of numerous books on business and leadership strategies. He is also a prominent sales and media consultant in the broadcasting industry. Click the link to listen!
About Jason
Jason Jennings is a researcher and one of the most successful and prolific business authors in the world. His
passion
and purpose is helping lead individuals and companies to their full economic potential and the more than
1,100 keynote speeches and seminars he's delivered around the world have consistently and positively changed
lives, careers and
companies forever.
He began his career as a radio and television reporter and was the youngest radio station group-owner in the n
ation. Next, he founded Jennings-McGlothlin & Company, a consulting firm that became the world's largest media
consultancy and their legendary programming and sales strategies are credited with revolutionizing many parts of
the broadcasting industry.
He traveled the globe in search of the world's fastest companies for his landmark book, It's Not the Big That Eat
the Small - It's the Fast That Eat the Slow and, within weeks of its release, it hit the Wall Street Journal, USA
Today and New York Times Bestsellers Lists, was published in 32 languages and USA TODAY named it one of the
top 25 books of the year!
Next, he and his research teams identified the world's ten most productive companies for his bestseller, Less Is
More. That was followed by, Think BIG - Act Small, which profiled the only ten companies in the world to have
organically grown both revenues and profits by double-digits every year for ten consecutive years. Like all his
previous books, it debuted on all the bestseller charts. His next book, Hit the Ground Running - A Manual for
Leaders reveals the tactics and strategies of the ten new CEO's who created the greatest amount of value during
their first five years on the job.
His New York Time's bestseller, The Reinventors - How Extraordinary Companies
Pursue Radical Continuo
us Change
, reveals the secrets of those leaders and organizations that have
successfully
reinvented and transformed themselves. His latest book for his publisher Penguin Random House, The High
Speed Company - Creating Urgency and Growth in a Nanosecond Culture, was released in the spring of 2015.
Along the way Jason joined forces with well-known cardiologist Dr. John Kennedy and coauthored the 2010 Health,
Mind and Body bestseller, The 15 Minute Heart Cure -The Natural Way to Release Stress and Heal Your Heart in
Fifteen minutes a Day.
Critics call his books, "extraordinarily well researched, insightful, crisply written, accessible, intriguing and a vital
resource for everyone in business," and USA TODAY calls Jennings one of the three most in-demand business
speakers on the planet along with the authors of, Good to Great, and, In Search of Excellence.
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MusicMaster of the Month: Brad Morgan
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Break Time: Try the MusicMaster Word Search
Our job is to help you save time when scheduling and editing logs. What you choose to do with that saved time is up to you...
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QUICK TIP: Schedule Analysis
You may be familiar with Schedule Analysis in the Editor. You can set up Hour/Day Analysis there for one target that is important to you. Instant Analysis let's you set up multiple targets that you can then show in the Editor. If you'd like a handy way to see your Hour/Day Analysis information in one place, you can print that report. Got to Analysis, Special History Reports and select Hourly Summary Report. You'll get a report that will show the same thing you see in the Hour/Day Analysis report, but the printed report allows you to set a date range, which means you can look at more than the current day to review trends and overall performance.
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Featured Article from the MusicMaster Blog
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INDUSTRY EVENT CALENDAR
We'd love to meet you there!
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