The beauty of GSelector music scheduling is that it can cater to any type of format or programmer’s music philosophy. You’re not restricted by the old school, “Don’t do this, or this,” instead, GSelector empowers the user to also include, “Do this, this and do that.” This week, we highlighted 5 quick and efficient scheduling…
As part of our ongoing “Scheduling with the Pros” series, we invited back John Bonou from our GSelector Development Team to offer his unique perspective on music scheduling. Let’s forget about our traditional 1:1 Category Groups to Category ratio and instead, think big picture. John’s favorite scheduling techniques focus on scheduling the “best” song, embedded…
You’re still relying on old school music scheduling. How do you compensate for quarter hour rotations or separate multi-attribute segue bans like, “Don’t schedule Tempo 1 into Mood 1?” Can you copy clocks, Priority Lists, songs, metadata and more across stations? No? With our RCS Academy incentives and limited time only free upgrades, now is the time to finally make that switch and upgrade to GSelector and its modern scheduling workflows.
So, you have your GSelector Priority List nice and organized, but you’re curious about the Rotation Rules Window, a very powerful area that includes customizable scheduling techniques. Many users simply don’t spend enough time working within this window or they’re wrongly intimidated by the available options. This week, we dedicated an RCS Live session to…
“What are your plans when a disaster strikes?” Insurance isn’t purchased after you break your leg, it’s before. Luckily, RCS is equipped with multiple tools to keep your stations on the air, including the evolving RCS Cloud Disaster Recovery. RCS Cloud DR will back up your audio, metadata, schedules, and SQL backups, allowing your team…
As 2021 is about to come to a close, we are excited and sadden to announce that Bill Webber, RCS Director of Scheduling, who’s been with the company for over 30 years, will be retiring at the end of the year. Bill has been instrumental in developing RCS scheduling products like Selector V12, Selector V15…
The RCS Academy is designed to help train users of all experience levels: from beginners who has never seen GSelector or Zetta, to intermediate users who only know “their way,” to advanced programmers who may not have realized there’s a more sophisticated or direct method of achieving their desired workflow. No matter your experience, the…
For this week’s RCS Live, we decided to take a step back and review RCS as a whole. Who are we? Where does each of our products fit in the radio workflow? What do we have planned in 2022? We answered those questions and more, while continuing to be available for any user driven questions….
After another cyberattack, we thought it was important to host another disaster recovery session to review your station’s backup workflows and emergency game plan for when disaster strikes. Although we never like to assume bad things will happen, the reality is that in today’s climate, we need to be prepared for anything and with RCS…
Did you know that while working in GSelector’s Editor, there are ways to control the Test Bar window? That’s right, using the Station Parameters icon in the Editor, users can customize their Test Bar and in addition, during this week’s RCS Live, we also covered Scheduling Score Thresholds. If you wanted to slightly adjust what…
Para RCS Live de esta semana, nos acompañaron Juan Urena Acosta, ingeniero técnico bilingüe de soporte de RCS y Horacio González, gerente de ventas de RCS, para ayudar a traducir nuestros consejos y trucos semanales para nuestros clientes de habla hispana. Dedicamos una hora a responder sus preguntas y ayudarlo a ofrecer algunas soluciones de…
After hearing all the positive feedback from last week’s Customizing Zetta Themes & Appearances, we decided to demonstrate how users can also customize their GSelector experience. For this week’s RCS Live, we covered how to change the theme, define individual attributes and user specific appearances, as well as how to assign those appearances across multiple…
Employers need to consider the abilities of all staff in the modern workplace and they can do this by looking for support with experienced software partners. For example, RCS teamed up with AFTRS for a breakthrough project to improve radio studio accessibility. With its all-encompassing automation software Zetta providing voice annotation functionalities, broadcasters can scale back on complex setups…
Did you know that as part of your GSelector contract, you also have access to Linker, the imaging portion of GSelector? From our experience, we’ve seen users commonly schedule basic pieces of imaging with simple rotations. And although there’s nothing wrong with that, for this week’s RCS Live, we decided to expand on the possibilities…
This week, we had the privilege to be joined by Bill Webber, RCS Director of Scheduling Development, to chat about everything music scheduling. Bill revealed what inspired him to write music scheduling software code, some of his “underutilized” GSelector scheduling techniques and we even teased upcoming GSelector 5.0 new features! Bill’s extensive music scheduling background…
So you’re getting ready for that long holiday weekend and then you realize, “Agh, I have so much to do before I can leave!” During this week’s RCS Live, we discussed how to prep for a holiday weekend so that you’re not stressing out. With GSelector and Zetta’s no limit design, programmers have the flexibility…
He’s back! Asst. GSelector Product Manager John Bonou joined us again to chat about everything GSelector and music scheduling. Thursday’s session started with talking about attribute goal scheduling and turned into a user driven live question and answer. We covered Clock Constraints, analyzing your database in the goals tab, Browse Lists, enabling a couple Priority…
Did you know that not only can you integrate your Mediabase, Media Monitors or third party research scores, but you can also assign scheduling attributes based on your research? Then, you can take those same research attributes and create goals or rules to incorporate into your Priority Lists. It’s just another example of how GSelector…