So you want to separate yourself from the competition? Utilize GSelector’s Related Links to improve the sound of your station by creating and scheduling unique imaging. Empower yourself to control transitions with not just generic sweepers, but specific transitions that directly relate to the corresponding songs. We’ll cover how to schedule thematic transitions and how to identify and isolate specific clock positions.
Since there are many ways users can rely on GSelector to improve the sound of their station, it all starts with you and how you build your imaging. There’s nothing stopping you by taking that ten second produced sweeper and then removing five seconds of production, following by removing all production pieces so that you have three versions of the same sweeper: Fully Produced, Semi-Produced and Fully Dry. This creates three sweepers that are unique to the listener by simply removing production elements, like the “Yea!’ sound effect. Then, it’s all about identifying what you want to schedule. Leave the “how” to RCS Support.
As one of our live attendees mentioned, its best practice to isolate your Linker elements into Linker Categories so that you can isolate elements for further control. Since each Category Group can feature their own Priority Lists, don’t forget to add your Goals and Rules, in addition to the Linker | Link Goals | Balance | Attributes for further scheduling control. In this video, we reviewed multiple examples from the Clocks tab. We defined a Clock Constraint “Throwback,” so that the clock position would only schedule a Theme: Throwback, which had its own corresponding Related Link | Fly In Link relationship. Don’t forget to check or uncheck any desired “Replace Categories,” perhaps excluding “Legal IDs” so that you don’t replace any required FCC top of the hour IDs.
As another example, we outlined how to schedule a New Music position and then utilize a Leading Link Related Link to always schedule a “New Music” sweeper that leads into a “New Music” song. If Fly In Links are “in addition to” the log, typically followed by a replace, then Leading or Trailing Links are clock positions that schedule specific imaging and if there isn’t anything to play, then we default to a generic category. Use an attribute like Era to isolate all Era pieces of imaging and then use Segue Bans to only schedule the correct Era sweeper to the corresponding song, like “Don’t play Era: 1970s into 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, etc…” Finally, we review how some programmers will use a “Dead Segue,” or two songs back-to-back without a piece of imaging in between, to rely upon Fly In Links to schedule the desired piece of imaging, or no imaging at all.
As you can see through the numerous examples outlined in this video, GSelector can empower users to specify what imaging they wish to schedule, creating unique transitions so that the listener is captivated by a sweeper that directly relates to the song they’re about to hear. If you want to dive deeper into past GSelector helpful videos, check out our RCS Live Archive! or become a Beta user to test the latest and greatest scheduling features. Otherwise, we’ll see you next Thursday at 11am ET on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter or Twitch for another RCS Live.