RCS Live Archives

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We're kicking off 2026 with the top 5 things you can look forward to from RCS this year. And we'll discuss the top 5 things you may have missed in 2025. Don’t forget, we'll be live to answer any of your questions!

GSelector Product Manager John Bonou will join us to review all the new features in GSelector 5.1.2, including the Metadata Import tool, Library enhancements like Plays in Category, Packet settings, Goals improvements like Priority List filters, recycling and run date demands, deleting all plays of asset today, multiple value related links, read-only users and more.

Zetta 5.25.2 is now in Beta, so let's review some of the new features including High Availability Slots, Control Text options, Live Metadata HD Radio delay, enhanced Split behaviors, new user customizations and more.

RCS Academy is proud to announce the launch of the updated Zetta Certification program. The Zetta Academy now includes enhancements from versions 5.20.1 through the unreleased 5.25.2, while introducing modern features, like Multisite Voice Tracking, remote work, and hybrid Cloud operations. We'll outline some version highlights and discuss how current RCS Academy learners can get a significant upgrade discount.

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This week we're debuting AudioDisplay's new Shows feature that allows programmers to rotate their Station Slogans with a Show title based on a weekly, on-going schedule. In addition to your AudioDisplay campaigns, now users can showcase their weekly talent as well!

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Our crates are shipped, our bags are packed and we're days away from NAB 2025! If you can't visit us in person at booth W2331 (West Hall), we'll be live this week to tease some of the fun products and features we'll be revealing at NAB 2025.

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This week, Dawn Newberry returns to discuss how to efficiency work within your Aquira contracts. Instead of redoing your work, make quick changes to spots inside your contract. We'll review how to expand your spot lines, adjust the date range and properly move spots. Plus, Dawn will be available to answer your questions.

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It's the most wonderful time of year for engineers - Daylight Savings Time! Since we're a month out, we'll review how DST works with GSelector and Zetta, things to look out for and additional GSelector settings.

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RCS is excited to announce the release of Zetta 5.24.1. Available now, users can enjoy Zetta's new Sequencer Failover, Metadata's Changes, improved GSelector integration, and more! We'll discuss those new features and review the upgrade process Thursday at 11am ET.

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RCS is thrilled to announce the launch of the RCS Academy: Zetta For Engineers course, designed specifically for engineers and administrators who need in-depth knowledge of Zetta configuration and setup. This week, we'll review the course and how to get you RCS Certified.

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This week, John Bonou, GSelector Product Manager, joins us to review some of the innovative enhancements in GSelector 5.1.1. Plus, he’ll be live, answering your scheduling questions. This will be an RCS Live session you don’t want to miss!

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Nate Mumford and Renel Choiselat are live at CCBE 2024, talking about CANCON and other Canadian radio helpful tips!

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What do you do with undersold inventory? Aquira features the ability to plot logs with various log filler options to prevent empty breaks. Schedule added value spots for current advertisers or promote unique events on specific dates, Aquira’s Filler Available option allows traffic managers to view what is available to fill. This week, Dawn Newberry joins us to review setting up contract filler parameters, global settings to apply rules for fulling empty breaks and more.

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It's the summer of streaming here at RCS, so we're highlighting Revma's latest features, including the introduction of failover streams and the newly created user roles: Tech Admin & Analytics Viewer. We'll also have our social chats open for any streaming questions.

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Between Zetta’s innovation, user simplicity, remote capabilities, modern features and evolving technology, it’s no surprise that thousands of stations have upgraded their NexGen automations to Zetta. Jeff Zigler joins us this week as we breakdown some of the benefits when you make the switch to Zetta.

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We're diving into Zetta's Hooks: How to define a Hook, where to enable a Hook, remote Hooks with Zetta2GO and advanced programming techniques using Hooks.

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We're checking in from Momentum 2024 talking about Zetta 5.23.1's release and getting the most out of RCS products.

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This week we're focusing on gold based stations that can benefit from "No Repeat Workdays" and Drive Protection. If your station features a "No Repeat" promise, we'll show how to schedule a song once a workday. Or if it's Friday at 5pm and you don't want the song to appear Monday at 8am, we'll review GSelector's Drive Protection.

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That’s a wrap for NAB2024 - queue the tunes!

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Hard to believe that NAB 2024 is already here and for this week's RCS Live, we'll be teasing some of the new features and products RCS will be showcasing in Vegas.

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Identify your desired outcome and have Zetta replace your tedious manual work. As a modern radio automation solution, Zetta is equipped with countless features and tools to make any engineer's life easier. We’ll highlight Exact Time Marker behaviors, chain types, macros, clock attributes, and more, allowing you and your team to focus more time and energy on other creative tasks.

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This week we’ll be reviewing Aquira’s Accounts Receivable | Transactions. Accounts Receivable is an efficient feature that allows users to review payment entries, invoicing, EDI capabilities and more. We’ll discuss Account Transactions, how to make accounting adjustments, allocate payments, and export invoices to an external system.

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We're kicking off 2024 with an RCS Challenge: Create a brand new radio station on the fly as quick as possible.

- Build a GSelector station from scratch
- Integrate with Zetta
- Replicate that station to Zetta Cloud
- Stream live with Revma
We'll build all of this live, including a full GSelector Priority List and cloud playout.

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Nate is live from WABE 2023.

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Nate’s checking in from Anchorage, Alaska for the Alaskan Broadcasters Association.

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RCS is proud to announce Audio Display, a innovative new product that allows your organization to develop new revenue streams, by allowing granular management of text and image advertising content delivered in sync with your audio.

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We’re live from CBI (College Broadcasters) 2023!

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So, you’re brand new to Zetta or you’re looking at making the switch to a new automation system. For this week’s RCS Live, we’ll take an aerial view around Zetta – How does it work? How can each user customize Zetta to their specific needs? What are Zetta’s remote capabilities and advanced techniques? We’ll cover those questions and more this Thursday!

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RCS is excited to announce that we're adding Aquira, our flexible and powerful Traffic system, to our existing RCS Academy Certification Program. Now users can become certified in GSelector, Zetta or Aquira! For this RCS Live, we'll review the outline of the course and sample one of the sections.

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You have a group of songs that you want to control how they schedule - should you use Dayparts or Hour Restrictions? We'll review how to isolate an attribute, mass change songs, Alternate Categories, and offer multiple examples when to use Dayparts or traditional Hour Restrictions, depending on your station's needs.

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Nate checks in live from TAB 2023!

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Thanks to Zetta's modern detached playout, multiple users can cycle between their desired layouts without affecting the on-air product. Which means, you can not only design your optimum layout, but users can outline specific modules based on their current workload.

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Why rely on generic imaging when you can use GSelector’s Related Links to schedule sweepers that are linked to the songs? New music intros, era specific transitions, concert teasers or corresponding dry/produced links, we’ll review how to maximize Linker to make your station’s imaging stand out against the rest!

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Nate Mumford and Renel Choiselat, RCS Canadian Support Manager, are live from Radiodays NA / CMW 2023!

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We're live at Momentum 2023 discussing control and how to properly outline ETMs, stretch and squeezing.

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Did you know that Aquira features tools for all different roles within a traffic department? Sales Reps can utilize the Calendar to schedule meetings with clients, as well as outline next steps, so that Sales Managers can review and track their progress. We'll review that and more on this week's RCS Live!

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With summer programming right around the corner, we thought it was time to revisit GSelector's Twofers. Of course, these are just songs by the same Artist/Vocalist, but there are tools to help you customize your logs. We'll review Twofers settings, how to control what songs play and more!

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So, you don't have GSelector or Aquira's live integration with Zetta. You can still incorporate third party programs by utilizing Zetta's Flat File Assignments. We'll cover where to create a new Flat File Assignment for music, traffic and reconciliation, as well as how to customize each assignment and any advanced options.

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After another successful NAB, we’re live showcasing the not so glorious side of NAB - cleaning up.

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We’re live at NAB2023!

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Aquira Products is a great attribute to customize based on your station's needs. As consumer products continue to evolve, so should your Aquira Products! We'll review how to add a product, where they apply to everyday workflows and how to create unique product separation.

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We work within the Zetta Log module everyday - drag and dropping elements, voice tracking, and adjusting the log, but did you know about the Search or Filter tool? What do those icons next to the airtime mean? How about enabling the Expand Spot Blocks setting? We'll cover those topics and more when we take a deeper dive into Zetta's Log Module!

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It's music changes day! Did you know GSelector features an extremely efficient Category Changer tool that allows users to display a wide array of information and then left click to drag songs between categories? This week, we'll review how to quickly organize your library in minutes with GSelector's Category Changer!

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We're checking in for a quick RCS Live at CRS 2023. We've been having great conversations with local Program Directors as part of our RCS Academy On the Road series.

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How do I add a piece of Media to an Aquira contract? What if it’s a Live Copy or I don’t have the contract approved yet? We’ll answer all of these questions and more when we review how to add Media and Live Copy to an Aquira contract.

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Of course we know that the stop button will stop any audio, but what about the different chain types? How does a Link-Song chain offer better forward momentum? What if there’s a newscast that’s updated once an hour and it’s updated while playing? We’ll answer those questions and more when we discuss Zetta’s On-Air module!

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This week GSelector Product Manager, John Bonou, joins us to review the brand new GSelector 5.1 features, including the game-changing Custom Song/Link Window, Data Exchange Job, Multi-Song Audio Analysis and more. Plus, John will be live to offer his programming expertise and answer your GSelector questions!

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Did you know that RCS products include a modern API that allows users to develop complex workflows? This week Mike Pfeiffer, RCS Asia/PAC Support Manager and resident API expert, will join us to review how to access Zetta, GSelector and Aquira’s APIs. He’ll also provide real life use case examples to hopefully inspire you to maximize your operations through API calls.

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This week Stanislas Mourdon, RCS Senior European Engineer, joins us to discuss effective ways to maximize your morning show. Why not have Zetta handle the heavy lifting and distribution for you by allowing Zetta Splits to execute local Legal IDs, imaging, spots, music and more? Stan will be on hand to offer his unique radio perspective and outline how his morning shows feature multiple local programming destinations.

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What is your disaster recovery solution when your station gets hit by ransomware or you lose your studio and hardware to a fire or flood? Don’t worry, RCS Cloud Based Disaster Recovery is here to save the day. We’ll review how Zetta Cloud works, outline daily workflows, and demonstrate how your voice tracks can land safely back in your local Zetta.

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Aquira is an extremely powerful CRM and Sales Proposal Solution, which is why this week we’ll be reviewing how to add a proposal. We’ll review some of the basic fields, as well as how to add custom attributes to better cater Aquira to your station’s everyday needs.

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We’re going back to basics! Since last week we discussed how to add a song in Zetta, let’s repeat the process with GSelector. We’ll identify basic to advanced fields, outline each additional subtab, and showcase our new Custom Song/Link Window.

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We’re kicking off 2023 by going back to basics. We’ll start off this year’s RCS Live by reviewing and solidifying everyday workflows, including how to add audio into Zetta. Aside from the types of audio formats and how/where to add audio, we’ll also cover the additional Metadata subtabs and each icon’s purpose.

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It's been an incredible year with tons of RCS Lives offering tips and tricks! This week, we'll get you ready for the holiday season by highlighting some of our favorite videos and reviewing how you can access past videos in our RCS Live Archive.

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Zetta is so flexible, why not truly customize your Zetta experience with Custom Asset Types and Custom Fields? Isolate your Morning Show audio with their own Library folder or create a Custom Field like, "OUTCUE" for Spots.

Once you see how easy it is to setup your own Custom Asset Types and Fields, you'll be wondering why you didn't create more of them!

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As part of GSelector's enterprise solution, there are specific tools available to programmers to share or copy clocks, priority lists, songs/links, attributes, schedules and more. This week, we'll review how to:

- Copy Clocks Across Stations
- Copy Priority Lists Across Stations
- Song/Link Multi-Station Activations & Copy Attributes
- Global versus Station Specific Attributes
- Multi-Station Schedule & Conflict Checker

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We're live on the floor of NAB Fall Show!

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As we begin to gear up for the holiday season, that also means we're beginning to plan our holiday programming. And with Zetta's flexibility, why not work ahead with Mini-Logs and Shows? This week, we'll review helpful tips to inspire us to not wait until the last minute!

- Construct Mini-Logs and Shows ahead of the scheduled log
- Continue to voice track and curate a "Best of" segment
- Review how to schedule replays

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You're in a pinch and you need to quickly review your log, but you only care about low scoring transitions - why not utilize GSelector's Hotspot filter? Isolate low scoring elements based on specific Goals/Rules, quickly fix the position, and in a couple minutes, you're all done thanks to GSelector's Hotspot filter.

- How the Hotspot Filter works,
- How to customize the Hotspot Filter,
- Upcoming 5.1 Hotspot Filter enhancements.

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It's a top question from our RCS Cloud Disaster Recovery users, "I know my RCS Cloud DR is working, but remind me, how do I turn on my RCS Cloud DR sequencer?"

We thought, why not film how to enable your disaster recovery from start to finish? This way you can save a "how to" copy!

- Refresher on how RCS Cloud DR is always "on"
- How to enable a sequencer
- How adding local audio is instantly available
- How to disable a sequencer

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Users always ask us, "What's the best Zetta configuration for my station?" Since Zetta is so flexible and can easily scale to any client's need, the real answer is different for every market. This week, Jeff Zigler, Senior Sales Engineer, will join us to discuss and outline Zetta topology. We'll offer real life client examples of:

- Zetta File Servers
- Sequencer machines
- On-Air Control versus Production
- Off-site redundancy options with Site Replication and more!

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Why are you having the same music log being built by multiple users, when you want the same playlist that features local clock structure, imaging, and spots? That's where S3 comes shines!

GSelector's S3, or Schedule Subscription Service, offers a Publisher and Subscriber relationship in which your music log champion constructs one music log that is automatically distributed to unlimited Subscribers, while maintaining their own local identity.

We'll review how to lock a log, setup a profile, station specific log options and how to automate some of these daily tasks.

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Here in the states, we’re getting ready to kick off Fall sports, which of course, also means to make sure your traffic clocks are ready to go. Did you know that Aquira features unique Clocks specifically designed for sporting or any unique type of event? This week, our resident Aquira specialist Dawn Newberry joins us to breakdown Aquira clocks:

- Where to create Clocks
- Where to assign Clocks
- How to mass add Clocks

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Zetta Product Manager Martin Blazek joins us again to review some of the brand new features in Zetta 5.22.1. We'll be covering:

- Imaging Fallback enhancement
- Virtual Log review and features
- New user settings for computer and Hot Key On-Air, Audition and Station opening behaviors
- Custom external audio encoders
- Zetta2GO 5.22.1 enhancements
- ...And more!!!

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"The user 'Everyone' has deleted a song at 11:00am on the PROD machine." Who's the user 'Everyone' and how do I find this what, where, when, and how report?

This week, we're talking security with user rights and restrictions and then how to properly interpret both Zetta and GSelector's user activity reports.

- Zetta User Roles, Privileges and Station Groups
- Zetta Reporting
- GSelector Security
- GSelector User Activity

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And just like that, the end of summer is only weeks away. Before you hurt the messenger, what specialty programming plans do you have for the end of summer? Why not schedule a Theme Weekend, like A-Z, Summer Block Party, 80s Throwback, etc...? It's quick and easy to do with GSelector!

- Isolate songs for specialty programming
- Use the Multi Song Changer to add a common attribute like Theme: Summer Throwback
- Easily duplicate clocks and assign Theme positions
- Instant projections and control via Goals | Balance | Attributes

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What's a Zetta Macro and how do I build one? We've had multiple user requests to cover macros, so this week we'll review:

- How/Where to build Macros
- How/Where to schedule/add Macros
- Advanced Macro executions (Embedded & locked / GSelector)

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We're live at TAB 2022!

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As we gear up for a busy fall event schedule, we hope you're enjoying your summer. We love seeing you in person, so let's review when and where you can visit us and schedule meetings to discuss any RCS product you and your team are interested in learning more about.

Plus, we'll be available to answer your questions live, no matter the RCS product. See you Thursday!

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We've had a lot of users reach out recently to discuss training options for either themselves or a new hire. This is the exact reason why we launched the RCS Academy back in 2019.

Currently, users can enroll in GSelector or Zetta Academy and become RCS Certified! The RCS Academy is an online, self-paced course that is designed to teach beginners, intermediate to advanced users GSelector, Zetta or both! Plus, we incorporate real life radio examples to help the learner understand radio.

This week, we'll outline how to register for the course(s), how to take it and we'll even review some of the questions so that you can see how the RCS Academy can benefit your team.

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When was the last time you audited your station’s spins? Did you isolate primary versus secondary dayparts, like removing overnights versus AM drive? Did you look at your gold categories and see which songs had 0 spins?

This week’s RCS Live topic came directly from a user driven question: “I want a quick and easy way to see a report of my spins, based on a specific attribute.” Yup, GSelector’s Analysis can do that and so much more!

• When to use Analysis versus GSelector Reports
• Isolate spins based on dayparts
• Highlight spins of an attribute, like Sound Code or Era
• High turnover stations: Check artist minimum separation in seconds
• Multiple ways to export your data

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Of course Zetta can preview any audio, but what about customizing how you audition? This week, we're going to break down Zetta's Audition module. We'll review some of the differences between the docked Audition module versus the microbar, customizing your audition preferences, and some additional audition features you may have missed.

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Have you ever sold a special contract with a fixed number of spots at a single cost? We call these packages and they're a helpful tool to keep things simple for traffic directors and sales representatives alike because users can create a single package template, only requiring the need to adjust the advertisers, not the rates or spot counts.

This week, we'll be joined by Dawn Newberry to breakdown how to build an Aquira package and unique ways to incorporate them into your everyday sales inventory, like December holiday packages or a full sporting event sponsorships.

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This week we're diving into GSelector's Priority Lists and highlighting some user driven questions on how to improve your rotations.

- Airplay Starvation
- Working within the Rotation Rules Window
- Hour Restrictions versus Hour Rotations
- Separate Ban Priorities
- Defining Yesterday, Prior Day, and Past Day

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We're checking in from Momentum 2022!

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Zetta 5.21.2 has been officially released and one of the exciting new features are the redesigned Hot Keys. So this week, we're reviewing how powerful Zetta Hot Keys can be!

- Building and configuring Hot Keys (both audio and non-audio triggers)
- Remote benefits (available instantly in Zetta2GO)
- Brand new Hot Keys Bank navigation
- Assigning Hot Keys play streams

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We're back from NAB 2022 and we're recapping the top 5 client topics! Missed us at the NAB booth? Don't worry, we'll discuss what you missed:

- RCS Cloud Disaster Recovery
- GSelector S3
- Storing Forward Content & Streaming with Revma
- Aquira Cloud
- Zetta New Features

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You've recently purchased an RCS product, now what? This week, we'll be joined by Brian Willard, head of our US install team, and Adrian Guanipa, GSelector Support Lead, to review the onboarding process.

We'll discuss best practices, breakdown the install steps or requirements, staff training, helpful documents and more! Plus, Brian and Adrian will be on hand to answer your questions.

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So you have your station online, but now you have to focus on your Internet stream. What quality should you broadcast? What type of analytics are you looking to measure?

This week we'll showcase Revma, RCS's content delivery network solution. We'll be on hand to answer any of your streaming questions. Plus, we'll demonstrate Revma's extensive analytics!

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This week John Bonou, GSelector Scheduling Pro, joins us again to highlight some of his favorite GSelector scheduling techniques.

John has a wealth of scheduling expertise and an unique interpretation of GSelector that offers a new perspective on scheduling that should spark you and your team!

Plus, while John answers your questions, we'll be teasing additional new GSelector 5.0 features. We'll see you Thursday at 11am ET!

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Between remote work and trying to fit in one more podcast or blog, voice tracking has become a necessity for many stations. Zetta was already equipped with a sophisticated voice track module, with additional remote capabilities through Zetta2GO, however, after COVID, we understood the need to further evolve voice tracking into the next decade.

We’ll start by reviewing Zetta and all of the tools to “work smarter, not harder,” like Trim In, Trim Out, or utilizing Zetta’s Multi-Track Editor to fix your voice tracks. Then, we ‘ll revisit Zetta2GO’s brand new, completely redesigned voice track module, which now includes these helpful audio mark tools found within Zetta. What about connecting multiple sites, helping to maximize your air talent? Yup, we got that covered as well! We’ll review multiple Zetta2GOs, Z-Cast and innovative technology with RCS Cloud voice tracking, which features its own two-factor authentication, bypassing the need for a VPN.

If you’re an on air talent or programming administrator, this is the session for you.

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This week we’ll be joined by Brian Radka, Aquira Product Manager, to tease some of the new features that are available in Aquira 3.21.2, which is in Beta as we speak!

There’s some really innovative technology that we’re about to release and Brian will be on hand to walk through some of them, as well as offering his pro tips and shortcuts regarding Aquira’s Spotlines.

This will definitely be a session Traffic Managers will not want to miss!

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This week, we’ll be joined by Diana Stokey, RCS SVP of Marketing. For many years, Diana’s wealth of knowledge and experience is just one of the reasons why RCS is the worldwide leader in radio software.

Now that we’re slowly returning back to pre-COVID life, Diana will be talking about upcoming radio events, both virtual and in person, as well as what’s next for RCS. From Zetta, GSelector, to our line of 2GO products to RCS Cloud and more, see how you can continue to connect with RCS. Plus, Diana will be on hand to answer any questions.

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This week we will be joined by Brian Willard and Jeff Zigler to help discuss how some of our users are applying and interpreting Zetta Z-Cast and Site Replication into their everyday workflows.

Remember, Z-Cast is the concept that users can push audio, schedules, metadata and more to site(s). Site Replication is a true 100% in sync database with another site.

Both are very effective, modern workflows to help connect your markets. Plus, Brian and Jeff will be on hand to answer questions and offer real life configurations!

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We're live on the road from CRS 2022! We're looking forward to seeing YOU in person!

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If you're still on an older version of Selector or thinking about making the switch, this week we're going to discuss some of the benefits of GSelector and we'll breakdown amazing features that makes GSelector the music scheduling solution for all types of programmers.

- Live Integration with Zetta
- Goal & Rule Based Scheduling
- Live, Real-Time Scheduling Turnovers
- Unique Features like Flex Clocks and Multi-Attribute Timed Segue Bans
- Remote Solutions with Selector2GO

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This week we'll be joined by Canadian Sales Manager Scott Farr, who will be discussing some advanced Zetta configurations.

We're talking about taking your primary site and then start to incorporate Zetta workflows to connect multiple markets, employees and specifically, begin to effectively share audio or metadata to maximize your stations. Or perhaps you want to start talking about Zetta in the Cloud or on a virtual machine (VM)?

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As part of our ongoing "Schedule Like the Pros" series, this week we'll break down GSelector's Rotation Rules Window, found under Goals | Priorities.

We'll talk about the various rules and examples of why programmers would implement them, as well as various tips and tricks to work within the Rotation Rules Windows.

This is a very powerful scheduling tool that offers vast control to programmers. So join us Thursday at 11am ET with your scheduling questions!

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We're kicking off another year of RCS Live with a topic that should be front and center in our minds: Disaster Recovery. Be it natural disasters, like a fire or flood, or cyber attacks that have frustrated many of us, what type of redundancy do you have in place to keep you on the air?

With RCS Cloud, we can automatically back up your audio, metadata, schedules and SQL backups! Then, when disaster does strike, simply enable your RCS Cloud sequencer and continue to broadcast, voice track, add audio and make log changes from RCS Cloud.

We'll explore RCS Cloud's new features and breakdown how the disaster recovery process works. Plus, if you have any RCS Cloud questions, we'll be on hand to answer them live!

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We’re back again with a new time this week: Wednesday at 11am ET, as we’re joined by John Bonou to review some of the brand new GSelector 5.0 features!

We’ll breakdown the completely redesigned GSelector user interface, including debuting the BRAND NEW Custom Song/Link Window! Then, we’ll discuss some of the behind the scenes performance enhancements and added security, as well as some of the new Jobs and other unique GSelector features.

Again, unique time this week: WEDNESDAY AT 11AM ET. Plus, John will be on hand to answer any of your GSelector questions! See you Wednesday!

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We're excited and sad to announce that Bill Webber, Director of Scheduling, and the heart of GSelector development, is retiring at the end of the year.

This week, we thought we would honor Bill and his legacy, as well as talk about where we've road mapped GSelector and RCS music scheduling for the future.

If you have any scheduling or history questions for Bill, we'll chat about them live on air and perhaps we can coax Bill to offer some of his favorite scheduling techniques.

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We're really excited to announce that Zetta 5.21.2 Beta is officially released, which means, you can now play with the latest Zetta features. Who better to review some of these enhancements than Martin Blazek, RCS Zetta Product Manager!

Just some of the topics we'll be covering:
- Introducing Zetta Virtual Events
- Redesigned Hot Key functionality
- Continued Zetta2GO enhancements: Dragging between modules, expanded Hot Key control, custom Log Columns, keyboard navigation and F1 Dynamic Help.
- Improved security & more!

Plus, Martin will be live to help answer any of your Zetta questions. This will definitely be an RCS Live you won't want to miss!

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This week, we're going to unveil our brand new RCS Academy portal and GSelector Certification Program. We've been busy behind the scenes redesigning our online self-paced course for both Zetta and GSelector so that users of all skill types can learn basic, intermediate and advanced techniques and workflows.

With the updated GSelector Certification Program, we've included additional topics and new features from the latest versions of GSelector.

During this session, we'll discuss how users can purchase the Academy, how to take the course, breakdown the randomized quizzes, and perhaps we have other special surprises up our sleeve. See you Thursday at 11am ET!

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It's the most, wonderful time....of the year - to schedule unique holiday programming! Between Christmas stations, year end countdowns and more, it's time to sit down and review all of the RCS resources available to help you prepare for specialty programming.

We'll start with GSelector and Christmas stations, activating old music and changing our grids.

Then we'll pivot to Zetta and discuss how to split streams, curate Shows, schedule them in GSelector and how users can voice track shows, despite not having a scheduled log!

Plus, if you have programming questions, we're here to help! Ask your questions live, in real time!

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This week, it's time to dive back into the commercial traffic world and showcase some new Aquira features, specifically the Zetta Aquira Sync tool.

Aquira Sync allows Traffic Directors to create and adjust the commercial schedule, edit live copy, and more from Aquira, which will automatically sync over into Zetta.

Plus, we'll be joined by our Traffic specialist, Dawn Newberry, to help demonstrate other Aquira features and answer your questions!

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For those who are unfamiliar with RCS and our line of products, including Zetta, GSelector, Aquira, Revma and our line of 2GO products, we thought that it would be beneficial to new users to offer some background on who we are and what we offer.

We'll identify each product's purpose, videos where you can review previous RCS Lives and more. See you at a special time this week: Wednesday at 11am ET!

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As we continue our weekly RCS Live series, we thought it would be a great idea to start to isolate a Zetta module and breakdown it's purpose and introduce unique ways users implement the module across multiple formats.

This week, we'll showcase the Zetta Stacks module, including "Coming Up Next Promo," Stacks for Morning Shows, and other Talk Show examples.

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After another cyberattack in the industry, we thought it was important to review your disaster recovery plan and showcase all of the unique RCS security features, as well as the redundancy tools that are available to you and your team.

We'll also be live on hand to answer any security or redundancy questions!

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Did you know that not only can you customize your Editor's Test Bar, but also set unique Station Parameters or highlights to help assist you in working within the Editor / scheduling songs?

This week, we'll dive deep into the Editor's Station Parameters and acknowledge some of the scheduling Thresholds featured throughout GSelector!

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En RCS, queremos brindarles a todos nuestros clientes la oportunidad de aprender más sobre nuestros productos. Porque, ¿cómo saber hacer algo si nadie te dice cómo funciona?

¿Tiene preguntas sobre Zetta o GSelector? ¿Tiene curiosidad sobre las últimas actualizaciones o cómo "The Cloud" puede maximizar su eficiencia?

Estamos organizando un RCS Live especial con el ingeniero técnico bilingüe de soporte de RCS, Juan Urena Acosta, y el Gerente de Ventas de RCS, Horacio González, donde explicaran la forma de trabajar dia a dia con Zetta y responderan sus preguntas, ¡en vivo!

¡Definitivamente será una sesión que usted y su equipo no querrán perderse!

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Since we had such a great response on how to customize your Zetta experience, why not do the same for GSelector?! We'll review how to:

- Color customize specific attributes
- Change the GSelector Theme
- Define new Appearances and assign them to specific users
- Settings Persistence
- Tease new settings in GSelector 5.0

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For this week's RCS Live, we thought we would introduce our new Themes (Zetta Metal, Dark and now Light) and expand on how users can truly customize their Zetta experience with their own colors and appearances.

- Change your theme
- Define specific value colors
- Adjust the formatting of your Log's: Songs vs. Links
- And more!

If you are curious on other ways to customize your Zetta experience, we'll also be live to answer your questions!

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RCS Live is BACK! And we're kicking it off with a walkthrough of RCS News. We'll cover:

Multiple News Ingest: RSS, FTP, HTTP, Email and Twitter.
Adding, editing and voicing newscasts.
RCS News' Multi Track Editor.
And more!

If you wanted an inside look into how RCS maximizes your newsroom, have your questions ready!

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Bill Webber, Director of Scheduler Development has been instrumental to RCS for many years. Flash back with us to 1993 where Bill installed the first computer driven radio automation system .

Bill recently announced his upcoming retirement and we wanted to take a moment to celebrate the early years. Bravo Bill!

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Join us this Thursday (7/22/21) at a special time: 4pm ET as we’re joined by the amazing Aquira Team to help breakdown some of the benefits of Aquira2GO. We’ll also cover Aquira2GO’s Forecaster and some of Aquira’s modern sales functionality! Plus, have your Aquira questions ready as our Aquira Team will be live to help answer any questions or workflows!

Again, make a note of the special time: Thursday (7/22/21) at 4pm ET and see you shortly!

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It's official, Zetta 5.21.1 is now available! So why not bring in Martin Blazek, RCS Zetta Product Manager, to discuss some of the exciting new features!?

Aside from Zetta's new maximized performance enhancements, we'll be reviewing:

- Zetta2GO's New User Friendly Marks Tools (Segue Editor)
- Completely Redesigned Media Import / Export
- Updated Metadata Card / Marks Tool
- Asynchronous & Play Through Macros
- New Zetta Light Theme & more!

Don't forget that Martin will also be available to answer your questions, live and in real time! Don't forget to set your reminders now and we'll see you Thursday!

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Did you know that Linker is included in your GSelector experience? Rotate your imaging as you would with any song category and with Linker's Related Links, customize your imaging so that GSelector schedules the sweepers or promos you want, not just the next available.

Plus, with Fly In Links, schedule with forward momentum by using Zetta's Early Segue and Fly In Link relationships so that your dry imaging will only play over appropriate song intros.

We'll cover that and more, Thursday at 11am ET! Have your imaging questions ready and we'll see you there!

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Join us Thursday 6/24/21 as Aquira Specialist Dawn Newberry joins us to discuss Aquira's Contract Entry Tools and we help answer your Aquira questions!

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Unfortunately in today's radio world, we're experiencing an increasing threat with ransomware. You may have heard of sites being taken off the air, daily operations seized, and loss of important metadata, audio and specifically revenue.

Zetta Cloud Based Disaster Recovery is the only type of its kind to automatically upload all of your metadata, audio, logs, and SQL backups, safely and securely to the cloud. Zetta Cloud DR is not just a virtual machine, but written for and on AWS, following best practices and securities.

Join us this Thursday at 11am ET as we review and answer questions on how Zetta Cloud Based Disaster Recovery works, how it safely stores your data, and keeps you on the air during a disaster, like a ransomware attack.

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From Selector V12, to Selector SQL and evolving into GSelector, this Thursday Bill Webber, RCS's Director of Scheduler Development, joins us to peel back the curtain and discuss the behind the scenes of GSelector.

"What led us to Goal Based Scheduling?" "What's a GSelector scheduling technique more programmers should implement?"

More importantly, what does the future hold for GSelector? Find this out and more as we answer your questions live in real time this and every Thursday.

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For this week's RCS Live, we'll review Zetta's sophisticated reports, time stamping the "Who, What, Where, When and How."

We'll also cover how to add a user, control what stations they have access to and what tasks they can perform in each module.

If you're an administrator or an engineer, this will be a great session to better understand Zetta's user hierarchy and modern control.

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Summer is almost upon us and you know what that means - three day weekends! But for us programmers, sometimes that comes with its own challenges.

For this week's RCS Live, we'll dive into Zetta and GSelector tips and workflows so that you can enjoy your holiday weekends!

- Holiday Clock Adjustments (GSelector)
- Specialty Programming Options (GSelector)
- Zetta's No Limits Design
- Voice Tracking (Zetta)
- Shows / Mini-Logs (Zetta / GSelector)

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Are you leaving the air studio to hammer out that piece of production? Are you curating complex production pieces and you want to easily drag and drop them for instant on-air playback?

All of this and more can be achieved with Zetta's built in Multi Track Editor (and corresponding Single Track Editor)! This week, we'll breakdown the Multi Track Editor and showcase some tips and tricks to show you how to get the most out of your Multi Track Editor!

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Did you know there's a online, self-paced course you can take to become GSelector or Zetta Certified? That's right! Add "RCS Certified" to your resume! Plus, you'll be added to our RCS Master User List.

For this week's RCS Live, we'll showcase how the Academy works, where you can sign up and of course, answer any questions you may have.

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Since we've been extensively covering Zetta, we thought that it was time to do a mass dive into Zetta2GO and how users can fully understand how Zetta2GO enhances the Zetta experience, maximizing your team's remote efficiency.

Plus, now that Spring is in the air, it's time to grab those masks and talk about how you can broadcast live via Zetta2GO, including controlling the on-air product or triggering Hot Key audio for a live sporting event, college rally or a live broadcast from your local car dealership!

If you have specific Zetta2GO remote workflow questions, don't forget to let us know ahead of time and we'll answer them live!

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As part of our ongoing RCS Series, we like to bring in our Product Managers to help understand some of the advanced techniques to our software. This week GSelector Asst. Product Manager John Bonou will join us to talk about everything scheduling!

Did you ever wonder what THAT feature does? Or perhaps you wanted to ask a specific scheduling question?

John will be live with us to break down some advanced topics and help guide you to build a better music schedule for your station.

This will definitely be an RCS Live you won't want to miss!

***This was rescheduled from 4/8/21***

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What’s the most efficient way to implement GPIOs? How does Zetta handle satellite programming? Where can I build macros?

You asked for a Zetta News/Talk RCS Live and we listened! If you have ANY questions regarding News/Talk formats and how Zetta maximizes your efficiency, you’ll definitely want to check out this session.

Brian Willard, Head of RCS Field Technical Services, and Senior Sales Engineer Jeff Zigler will join us to break down all the benefits of having Zetta run your News/Talk format. We’ll be discussing and configuring:
- GPIOs
- Satellite Programming
- Audio Routes
- Macros
- Network Hubs vs. Network Affiliates
- Zetta Shifts
- And so much more.

If you’re an engineer or a News/Talk talent, we’re going to be diving deep into Zetta to show YOU how you maximize your Zetta system and understand how Zetta brings a next level of radio automation to News/Talk formats.

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Unfortunately, we had to reschedule our conversation with Asst. GSelector Product Manager John Bonou for 4/22/21 at 11am ET. Instead, we'll be discussing research score scheduling. Learn how to ingest your research score call outs into GSelector and then identify goals and/or rules to incorporate them into your Priority Lists.

Media Monitors, Mediabase, or consultant research, we'll discuss how to create research attributes, how they're scored, how to include the metadata throughout GSelector and more!

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Did you know that Zetta offers next level redundancy with Hot Sparing? It's no wonder many engineers are raving about the flexibility and ease of swapping from a primary machine to a secondary machine, either for updates or troubleshooting.

This week, we'll break down the concept of Hot Spare, configuration and of course - tips and tricks!

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If you've been waiting to try GSelector's new FLEX CLOCKS, then the wait is over! We released GSelector 4.9.0 last week, so why not break down some of the new features, as well as any relatively new features you may have missed?

- FlexClocks
- Association Reports
- Preview GSelector's Audio Player
- GSelector Jobs
- Local Breaks
- Expanded 99 User Defined Fields
- Expanded Related Link Attributes (Fly-In Links)

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Did you know that Zetta is so flexible it can mirror your desired workflow, no matter how simple or complex?

For this session, we'll talk about basic Zetta configurations and then apply Zetta Cloud Disaster Recovery, Zetta2GO, Site Replication and Z-Casting to expand your traditional Zetta configuration into a remote hybrid setup.

We'll demonstrate and outline traditional Zetta Servers and how each piece of the puzzle fits into your remote hybrid workflows.

This will definitely be a session your engineering team will not want to miss!

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Are you looking for tighter rotations or ever wonder how GSelector schedules multiple categories? This week, we'll break down the Category Group Settings - found under the Goals | Categories tabs.

There's a lot of control here, defining how GSelector will schedule minor categories or if you're a "Current" music station that requires a small category with rapid turnover, this may be a configuration window that you've overlooked.

As always, we'll review all of the settings, offer some real life user examples and we'll be live to answer your questions!

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What are Zetta Splits?

You have one master stream/feed/source of content and you want to breakaway from the main feed to a secondary feed - think of a master stream and then a online stream that has a second unique traffic log. Essentially, with Zetta Splits, programmers can breakaway from the main feed, play a second source, and then return to the main feed.

We'll talk about the concept behind Zetta Splits, examples of implementations, scaling of Zetta Splits and basic configuration.

Of course, if you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask live in real time!

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In past videos, we've covered advanced GSelector Clocks, including Clock Constraints, Optimizations and more. But, we never discussed basic clock building. So this week, we're going to break down how to build a basic clock, breakdown each column's purpose, and options to override your clock schedule.

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RCS News, a state-of-the-art radio newsroom system, provides solutions for your entire news operation from newscast gathering, writing and editing to actual on-air broadcast and story archiving.

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Aquira helps you manage clients, prospects and sales team call activity. Aquira is the innovative solution for all your traffic needs.

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GSelector is the world’s most powerful multi-station music scheduling software. GSelector brings flawless rotations straight out-of-the-box or ultra-sophisticated logs that will translate the station in your head, to the station you hear on air.

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RCS is the #1 manufacturer of Radio Automation in the world. Zetta is built on decades of experience and feedback from thousands of radio stations worldwide using our NexGen Digital and Master Control studio systems.

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Now that 2021 is in full swing, we thought we would review some of RCS2GOs remote workflows. Remember, users can schedule logs remotely with Selector2GO, which automatically populates in Zetta, voice track and add audio via Zetta2GO, while controlling the on air product and broadcast live via Revma's Conference App. Plus, Aquira2GO keeps Sales Representatives connected with contracts and reports!

If you have any specific remote workflow questions, don't hesitate to ask and Nate will answer it live Thursday morning!

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There you are, listening to your station and you come across a transition that triggers your ear. “Eh, I don’t like that.” Why? What is it that you don’t like? In this RCS Live, we take a conceptual approach to understanding how to better your rotations and transitions by identifying transitions that you either like or don’t and then applying GSelector’s Goals, Rules and Priority Lists to help your station sound exactly the way YOU want it to sound.

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You have questions and RCS Support is here to help answer them. As part of our ongoing RCS Live series, we were joined by Barry Hill, RCS VP of Customer Success, to offer a greater understanding of how Support works, COVID updates and we revealed our 2020 RCS Support Technician of the Year!

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Needless to say, 2020 has been a crazy year, but it’s also been a year full of helpful tips and tricks with our RCS Live series. For our last video of 2020, we decided to return to our roots and talk about Zetta and GSelector integration. We’ll demonstrate how the process works and review a couple examples of how efficient and powerful their integration can be.

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It’s been a couple months since we last discussed Zetta Cloud Based Disaster Recovery and since hackers don’t take holiday vacations, we thought we would revisit Zetta Cloud Based Disaster Recovery and breakdown some of the benefits of creating a cloud based redundancy plan.

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Since its inception over a decade ago, Zetta has always been able to scale with technology and customer workflows. With the latest Zetta 5.20.1 version, RCS is continuing to expand on Zetta’s flexibility, performance, UI experience and more. As we get closer to Zetta 5.20.1’s official release, we thought it was time to breakdown some of Zetta 5.20.1’s new features.

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Despite COVID, it’s business as usual for RCS and we continue to install all of our products all across the world. We thought it was time for an onboarding refresher to break down all of the steps on how we help you install and configure your RCS system. For this session, we were joined by Brian Willard, Field Technician Services Director, and Adrian Guanipa, GSelector Support Lead, to go through each product and how we guide you through the onboarding process.

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With the Fall Ratings Period on our minds, we decided to tackle Advanced GSelector Scheduling Techniques as part of this week’s RCS Live series. We broke down the Category Changer, Optimizations, including MultiShot, Legacy and Floating, Consideration Window settings and more.

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It’s been a couple weeks since we discussed all the ways RCS’ 2GO line of products can maximize your remote efficiency. So we decided to go over how to schedule, broadcast and more as part of this week’s RCS Live: Revisiting Questions and Answers in the Time of Remote Workflows.

We were joined by RCS VP of Customer Experience Barry Hill for another Questions and Answers in a Time of Remote Workflows. Barry and Nate broke down how users can reach out to Support and offered a grab bag of frequently asked questions.

Don’t forget that there are a lot of free RCS tools you can utilize in order to maximize your efficiency. For example, users can book their installation times ahead of time with www.rcsworks.com/bookings , Selector users with advanced firewall configurations can manually license themselves by going to www.selectorlicense.com , users can reset their password via www.rcsworks.com ‘s Forget Password link and finally if you send yourself a Data Exchange, RCS will keep an emergency copy of your database.

Next, straight from RCS Support Engineers, we broke down some methods to speed up the Support process. Users can always email support@rcsworks.com for smaller issues that don’t need an immediate turnaround, whereas if there is an off-air emergency, we encourage you to call the main support line (914-259-4900) so that we can get you back on the air ASAP. Make a point to write down important pieces of information like the exact time of the issue or the element in question. It saves Support from having to fish for resolutions stemming from, “I have an issue. At some point yesterday some song didn’t play. I don’t know which one or when it was or why it didn’t play.”

In the upcoming weeks, we’ll be showcasing some great Facebook Live topics. Keep an eye out for Facebook Event Invites and more! As always, reach out if you have any questions or looking for workflow solutions. Don’t forget to follow us on www.Facebook.com/RCSSoundSoftware for updates and we’ll see you every Thursday at 11am ET.

Now that sporting events are back after a COVID break, it’s time to talk about Zetta and sporting events. As part of another Questions and Answers During a Time of Remote Workflows, Nate Mumford was joined by Brian Willard, Field Technician Services Manager, and Jeff Ziger, Senior Sales Engineer, to discuss some of their favorite sporting event tips and tricks.

Nate, Brian and Jeff broke down the session into four parts: prepping, affiliates, network (source of the content) and the future. Starting with the prep process, it’s also important to understand what your station needs to configure in order to properly run a successful sporting event broadcast. That starts with reaching out to your Network Provider to get the broadcast schedule and perhaps double check if there were any off season tweaks to either the clocks, tones or the event structure. Also, don’t forget that RCS is here to help you with any configuration, you’re not in this alone. If you need any assistance, don’t hesitate to reach out to RCS Support or your Field Technician Services (FTS) team member.

Next, we discussed implementing sporting events for Affiliates, specifically Mini-Logs and additional sequencers. Remember, the most important difference between Zetta Shows and Mini-Logs is that Mini-Logs can include time stamped assets, like Spot Blocks and Exact Time Markers, that can be implemented into the log structure. RCS recommends that users pre-define their Mini-Logs so that when they’re in season, users can simply drag and drop elements into the log as needed. Users can also pre-load their Logs to include Mini-Logs for each game ahead of time.

One of the biggest tips that RCS recommends is to purchase an additional Sequencer, which is tied to its corresponding Logs module. This will allow users to freely pivot content from the Primary Sequencer (or terrestrial output) to a Secondary Sequencer (like an online stream that cannot air certain content or another alternate source of programming, like a music log for rain delays. If you’re looking for some remote workflow solutions, if you add these audio routes and macros to Zetta’s Hot Keys, then they’re available for control via Zetta2GO. That way, users can control the on-air product via their home office! Markets with multiple stations can also get creative and have team or sport specific sequencers that can be controlled via Audio Routes to broadcast on different Primary sequencers, like on a AM one game and the FM during another.

Finally, Nate, Brian and Jeff discussed the future of what’s next for Zetta and sporting events. With the additional of the new Revma, RCS’ content delivery network, Conference App, hosts can create a cloud room to invite talent from multiple geographic locations that are mixed to a single output source. In regards to sports, think of a play by play cloud room that is fed by a Network to its affiliates. In addition to Zetta, GSelector also has a feature for a specific Clock override. Instead of a grid override, create a single sporting clock, which can include Zetta’s Mini-Logs, and program the clock to override generic programming during the scheduling process.

Don’t forget, if you want the latest and greatest, RCS is always looking for new beta users for their upcoming Zetta 5.20.1 and GSelector 4.9.0 releases. And if you’re working from home, we would love to showcase your at-home setup! Send your pictures to live@rcsworks.com or direct message us on social media and we’ll send you some RCS goodies! We have some special guests and surprises lined up for upcoming Facebook Lives, including a detailed breakdown of Zetta’s Site Replication vs. Z-Cast with Zetta Product Manager Martin Blazek. You won’t want to miss it! As always, reach out if you have any questions or looking for workflow solutions. Don’t forget to follow us on www.Facebook.com/RCSSoundSoftware for updates and we’ll see you every Thursday at 11am ET.

This week on RCS’s Questions and Answers in a Time of Remote Workflows, we were joined by Adrian Guanipa, GSelector Support Lead, to discuss Administrative and Job configurations. We dove into how to create Organizations, Roles, Users, as well as other admin options, then a breakdown of each GSelector Job and sparked by user driven questions, we showed some hidden navigation tricks.

As part of our ongoing RCS Questions and Answers in a Time of Remote Workflows series, we broke down the latest enhancements to Zetta Cloud. Officially released last week, Zetta Cloud now has the capability to customize layouts based on dockable modules, floating Voice Track module, Exact Time Markers, Emergency Playlists, Tag Fill, and Missing Audio Reports.

Probably the most exciting new Zetta Cloud feature is the ability to customize your Zetta Cloud layout, just like your local Zetta. We’ve introduced the Module dropdown from the top menu so that users can open and either float or dock each Zetta Cloud module. In addition, users can quickly right click on a transition, insert a Voice Track, which will automatically open a floating Voice Track module for users to efficiently voice track, save their work, and close the corresponding Voice Track module. And with the option to Save Individual Layouts, users can also save default layouts for different stations, configurations or profiles.

Next, we discussed the new ETM, or Exact Time Markers, display and Gap Times. Now users can see exactly where the hour is trending, either over or under the desired time specified by the ETM. Zetta Cloud even has the unique scheduling technique of Emergency Playlists or Tag Fill. Think of the Emergency Playlist as a collection of elements that can be scheduled within Zetta Cloud in case of emergency when there is no log present. Whereas the Tag Fill will look to fill the hour with elements that have the same corresponding tag as defined in the Metadata module. This way, Zetta Cloud will populate a schedule with a specific group of elements. Finally, looking to see if you’re missing any audio? Simply run the new Missing Audio Report to see what elements are scheduled and feature no audio.

Zetta Cloud is constantly being updated with enhancements that blends the landscape between hardware and cloud based automation systems. Stay tuned for more updates as we’ll continue to showcase new features when they’re released.

RCS has some special guests and surprises lined up for upcoming Facebook Lives, in which we’ll discuss some of the advanced features and configurations of the full line of RCS products. You won’t want to miss it! As always, reach out if you have any questions or looking for workflow solutions. Don’t forget to follow us on www.Facebook.com/RCSSoundSoftware for updates and we’ll see you every Thursday at 11am ET.

As we get ready for a holiday weekend, just a short update on what you'll learn next week.

After a nice week off, it was time for another RCS Questions and Answers in a Time of Remote Workflows. This Thursday, we reviewed how Zetta Cloud and Zetta Cloud Based Disaster Recovery works and showcased a couple new Zetta Cloud features, like Hot Keys, Station settings and the System Monitor.

Remember, the first phase of RCS Cloud is Zetta Cloud Based Disaster Recovery, which acts as a separate market, but runs in tandem with your current Zetta system. Any changes, be it log, new audio or metadata changes, including backups, are instantly saved to Zetta Cloud. If disaster strikes, enable Zetta Cloud with your phone and you’re back on the air. When the disaster is over, restore your Zetta backup, disable Zetta Cloud and you’re back to normal.

As we inch closure to a fully cloud based radio automation system, Zetta Cloud now features the Hot Keys module. Hot Keys allow the user to play audio outside the on-air and audition modules. You’ll find that Zetta Cloud’s Hot Keys module performs the same as it would in Zetta or Zetta2GO. Simply add a new Hot Key bank, drag and drop assets, adjust the color and it’s ready for playout.

Next, we also went over some of the updated Station specific settings. Users can now utilize stretch and squeeze, Soft ETMs, audio processing, switch between English and French and more. With the ability to integrate with GSelector, possibly on a VM, users can also create a schedule remotely and then voice track or control their station from Zetta Cloud.

RCS has some special guests and surprises lined up for upcoming Facebook Lives, in which we’ll discuss some of the advanced features and configurations of the full line of RCS products. You won’t want to miss it! As always, reach out if you have any questions or looking for workflow solutions. Don’t forget to follow us on www.Facebook.com/RCSSoundSoftware for updates and we’ll see you every Thursday at 11am ET.

This week, as part of our ongoing RCS Questions and Answers in a Time of Remote Workflows, Brian Willard, head of our Field Technician Services team, joined in to talk about RCS installs and changes we’ve implemented since COVID-19.

After quarantine was in place, RCS adapted their installs so that we could operate remotely. We’ve been continuing installations and with certain cities reopening, RCS has even begun some on-site installations. Of course, operating under CDC safety guidelines.

RCS has also revealed their new Field Technician Services Client Portal, a URL in which Clients can update information for their upcoming installation. Since we like to make sure our install team’s time is better spent working with the Client, RCS has found that any information up front will help speed along the process. This way our staff is training and not “watching a progress bar.” The new RCS FTS Client Portal will be available very soon.

Afterward, we broke down the upgrade/installation timeline and what to expect. The FTS team will convert any audio and metadata from your previous system and make a point to properly train your entire staff, including sitting in with morning shows.

If you have your questions regarding the upgrade/installation process, don’t hesitate to reach out to RCS Support or your local RCS Sales Representative. Make sure to follow us www.Facebook.com/RCSSoundSoftware and we’ll see you every Thursday at 11am ET.

Another Thursday, another RCS Questions and Answers in a Time of Remote Workflows. This time around, we answered a collection of user-driven questions, including auditioning in Zetta, “Not Coded” in GSelector, and a refresher on the Zetta2GO and Selector2GO remote workflows.

After we did a review of scheduling a log in Selector2GO, massaging a log in the Editor, seeing the changes in Zetta and adding audio into Zetta2GO, we focused on “Not Coded” attributes in GSelector. If you have a lot of attributes in GSelector that aren’t properly coded, they’ll get a tag of “Not Coded,” which isn’t necessarily a bad thing, especially if you’re not including that attribute’s Spread Goal in the Priority List. If you are calling for a Spread Goal, then GSelector will treat “Not Coded” as a value to count towards the scoring process.

We went over quick fixes on how to use Browse List and GSelector Legacy Library Browse settings to isolate “Not Coded” elements and then properly define/fix that attribute. We also went over how to Audition audio in Zetta2GO, including hiding the Audition player at the bottom of your Zetta2GO.

If you have your questions or looking for remote workflow solutions, don’t hesitate to reach out to us either by commenting or direct messaging us on social media, reaching out to RCS Support or your local RCS Sales Representative. Don’t forget to follow us on www.Facebook.com/RCSSoundSoftware and we’ll see you every Thursday at 11am ET.

Every Thursday at 11am ET RCS is hosting an open Questions and Answers in a Time of Remote Workflows so that we can assist our users who are navigating through COVID-19 workflows. This week we covered Aquira2GO.

Just like the other RCS 2GO products, Aquira2GO is not an app, which means that multiple users can access it anywhere as long as they have proper VPN access. Dawn Newberry, our Aquira Sales Engineer, lead the conversation and demonstrated a couple ways Sales Managers can utilize Aquira2GO to look at different reports and contracts.

First, the Aquira2GO dashboard is completely customizable with reports that can be favorited or displayed on the Aquira dashboard home page. As an example, think of an early morning snapshot of a user’s database. A sales manager wanted to plan out their day by seeing where they are within a current budget, projections, and forecasts, as well as individual Account Executive’s breakdown of clients, prospects vs leads. Afterward, Dawn went over a couple of tips and tricks and demonstrated how you can break up long term contracts by skipping a week within the length of the contract.

If you’re interested in setting up Aquira2GO or looking for more information, please don’t hesitate to reach out to RCS Support or your local RCS Aquira Sales Representative, which just happens to be Dawn! Don’t forget to follow us on www.Facebook.com/RCSSoundSoftware and we’ll see you every Thursday at 11am ET.

As part of another RCS Questions and Answers in a Time of Remote Workflows, we broke down how to set up and configure GSelector S3 scheduling.

S3 stands for Schedule Subscription Service and it’s available as part of your GSelector contract with an additional installation suffix. Essentially, S3 creates a unique profile for a Subscriber so that a Publisher can create one master schedule and export it to an unlimited amount of Affiliates/Subscribers. The key is S3 allows the local Subscribers to maintain local clock structures, while overwriting their song positions with that of the Publisher.

In the latest Facebook Live, we broke down each step of the S3 setup process. First, connect the Publisher’s GSelector Server to the Subscription Manager, define the Publisher station, create a Subscription profile based on a 24/7 grid, enable the Subscriber’s S3 configuration in GSelector, and finally select the defined Subscriber profile.

While creating the Subscriber’s profile, there are multiple profile choices including Full Music Log (Subscriber’s local clocks are overwritten by that of the Publisher), Music Only (Subscriber maintains local clock structure and imaging) and Custom (The Publisher defines what asset types are sent over). Most users prefer the Music Only profile.

At the Publisher level, users can set Trust Levels based on clock positions and once they’re done with a log, they would lock it for S3 scheduling. Once locked, Subscribers can schedule their logs, as they normally would, and as part of the first step of the scheduling process, GSelector will acknowledge the defined Subscriber profile and bring in the music/logs from the Publisher.

If you’re interested in setting up GSelector S3 or looking for more information, please don’t hesitate to reach out to RCS Support or your local RCS GSelector Sales Representative. Don’t forget to follow us on www.Facebook.com/RCSSoundSoftware and we’ll see you every Thursday at 11am ET.

Despite NAB’s cancellation, the show must go on! For the latest RCS’s Questions and Answers in a Time of Remote Workflows, RCS decided to breakdown some of the new Zetta 5.20.1 features that would have been revealed at NAB 2020.

Zetta 5.20.1 features numerous enhancements and scalable expansions to the future of Zetta. Since its inception over a decade ago, technology advancements have once again allowed the Zetta Team to upgrade many of Zetta’s under the hood features. Users will note the upgraded performance in Zetta’s UI, as well as easier flexibility when scaling large databases.

Aside from the under the hood upgrades, Zetta 5.20.1 has a completely redesigned user interface with upgraded fonts, colors, and more. We also introduced the brand new dark mode Zetta theme for users that want an “easier on the eyes” display.

For databases with extensive libraries, RCS also demonstrated the Server-Side Library search. Rather than having to search through thousands of songs and pieces of metadata, users can now enable a Server or Station Library search, which can be broken down by multiple metadata fields and treated almost as an internal search engine. Users also have the choice if they want to search their entire database or keep their searches simpler and display only single stations - or a combination of both! They can also search using multiple keyboards for a specific search, like a single title word and Artist.

Afterward, we demoed the new Revma Conference App and Zetta’s Stream URL feature, perfect for morning shows or talent that require multiple voices in a single feed. A producer would create a “Conference Room” and then invite others via a URL link. Once everyone has joined, the producer goes live and that stream will start to broadcast through Zetta, Zetta2GO, or Zetta Cloud, pending on the desired export.

RCS has some special guests and surprises lined up for upcoming Facebook Lives in which we’ll discuss some of the advanced features and configurations of the full line of RCS products. You won’t want to miss it! Follow us on www.Facebook.com/RCSSoundSoftware for times and reminders and we’ll see you every Thursday at 11am ET.

RCS invited Brian Radka from the RCS New Zealand Aquira Team to talk about the benefits of Aquira2GO.

Just like the other RCS line of 2GO products, including Zetta2GO and GSelector2GO, Aquira2GO is not an app, rather a URL that users can access via any web browser or operating system, as long as they have VPN access to their Aquira Server. Brian went into extensive detail on how Sales Representatives who are working from the road can efficiently utilize Aquira2GO. Starting with their daily agenda, users can schedule meetings, view the location on a Google Maps interface, as well as see other advertisers in the area in case they needed to schedule another meeting. In Brian’s example, after “meeting” with his first client, he sent a signed contract proposal with a schedule to his Sales Manager. Then, while he waited for the returned approval, he jumped to another client in Aquira2GO and added their commercial’s audio as an attachment. Don’t forget, once social distancing is a thing of the past, Sales Representatives can also play audio for clients in person or have them sign a contract or schedule on their device. Next, Brian went over the Sales Management tools, including budgets, forecasting and other reports available in Aquira proper.

With this unique Zetta feature, a station’s content is automatically uploaded to the cloud, ready at a moment’s notice for playback. From natural disasters to viruses taking down IT infrastructure, whatever the emergency, Zetta Cloud is a high-tech, cutting-edge insurance policy that gets broadcasters back on-air, easily, efficiently and quickly.

In this screencast we cover GSelector2GO, integration with Zetta and Tricks to Schedule with Browse Lists and more.
Learn more about GSelector at https://www.rcsworks.com/gselector/

RCS, the world’s largest broadcast software company, has announced a breakthrough in combining voice recognition technology with studio automation. Its new Speech to Text Transcriber makes RCS the first automation company in the world to offer integrated speech recognition to identify Voice Tracks. The new tool was first demonstrated on the RCS booth at NAB, Las Vegas 2017.

Test All Media brings you a new way for your listeners to tell you what music they want to hear: it’s Test All Media Mobile. Your listeners are mobile, so you need to be mobile. Listeners can now take their music surveys from wherever they are -- on any connected device with a browser.

The Conference, held in Singapore this year in conjunction with a huge technology trade exhibition, and RCS Sound Software was there. See the booth that RCS displayed at this amazing annual event.

RCS, the world's largest broadcast software company, has announced a move that will change the concept of music scheduling. The Selector Cloud™ is a new service that RCS will offer to radio stations and webcasters around the world.

The Selector Cloud provides constant and secure access from anywhere with a simple username and password, allowing the user to perform music scheduling functions, such as library management, clock-building, policy setting, log editing, transfer to the automation system, analysis and much more.

RCS, the world's largest broadcast software company, has announced a move that will change the concept of music scheduling. The Selector Cloud™ is a new service that RCS will offer to radio stations and webcasters around the world.

The Selector Cloud provides constant and secure access from anywhere with a simple username and password, allowing the user to perform music scheduling functions, such as library management, clock-building, policy setting, log editing, transfer to the automation system, analysis and much more.

RCS, the world's largest broadcast software company, has announced a move that will change the concept of music scheduling. The Selector Cloud™ is a new service that RCS will offer to radio stations and webcasters around the world.

The Selector Cloud provides constant and secure access from anywhere with a simple username and password, allowing the user to perform music scheduling functions, such as library management, clock-building, policy setting, log editing, transfer to the automation system, analysis and much more.

RCS not only delivers World Class Support, but Advanced Training Seminars. Here's a look at a recent seminar in Philadelphia.

Great to have heard from John Dennehey of Empire Broadcasting in Albany, NY on his take on ZETTA automation. Their stations include 101.3 The Jockey, Mix 106.1, Sporty 1240AM (NBC SPORTS) and 900 AM WABY. ‪#‎Zetta‬ ‪#‎RCS‬ ‪#‎AUTOMATION‬ Thanks John.

Selector2Go is a feature of GSelector® but is tailored for the web. Selector2Go works on all of today’s contemporary browsers and across platforms and mobile devices. This includes most PC and Mac computers as well as the vast majority of current smart phones, tablets and e-readers, including the iPad and iPhone. The data flow is kept small to enable fast performance, even on mobile networks like 3G. Selector2Go gives you powerful core scheduling, schedule editing functionality and essential analysis details of your rotations in the palm of your hand.

GSelector is the world's most powerful multi-station scheduling system. With a single point of entry, flexible configuration and the most up-to-date technology, GSelector is the newest way to create great schedules. Zetta is more advanced, so you will easily be able to get updates. Zetta is extremely reliable, so you will stay on the air. Zetta is comfortably intuitive and conveniently flexible, so you spend less time learning it and more time using it.

GSelector is the world's most powerful multi-station scheduling system. With a single point of entry, flexible configuration and the most up-to-date technology, GSelector is the newest way to create great schedules. Radio loves GSelector.

Once again, the RCS team made their way to Singapore for the 20th annual Broadcast Asia gathering. Catch the team in action and some beautiful shots of the city state.

Selector2Go is a feature of GSelector® but is tailored for the web. Selector2Go works on all of today’s contemporary browsers and across platforms and mobile devices. This includes most PC and Mac computers as well as the vast majority of current smart phones, tablets and e-readers, including the iPad and iPhone. The data flow is kept small to enable fast performance, even on mobile networks like 3G. Selector2Go gives you powerful core scheduling, schedule editing functionality and essential analysis details of your rotations in the palm of your hand.

Zetta2Go is an application that allows the control of a Zetta Automation/Playout system from an internet browser. Using a tablet or smart phone a user can view and fire off Hot Keys® for a station, from a laptop or remote desktop a user can control much more. A Desktop Internet Browser can display Logs, Hot Keys and the Segue/Voice Track Editor allowing the user to voice track Empty Voice Track Slots in the log, edit the segue of the voice tracks and fire hot keys from a Hot Keys bank.

RCS software is used by more than 10,500 radio stations, TV music channels, cable companies, satellite music networks and Internet stations worldwide. RCS is the world's largest broadcast software company. The company also provides broadcasters and webcasters tools and expertise and also develops real-time audio recognition technology.

RCS delivers the most advanced digital radio automation system: Zetta®. Being the world's largest broadcast radio software company for more than 30 years, RCS has the experience and knowledge that creates an advantage for you. With decades of real in-studio usage, we've learned what a user really needs in radio playout systems and automation. That is what helped the designers of Zetta.

Selector2Go is a feature of GSelector® but is tailored for the web. Selector2Go works on all of today’s contemporary browsers and across platforms and mobile devices. This includes most PC and Mac computers as well as the vast majority of current smart phones, tablets and e-readers, including the iPad and iPhone. The data flow is kept small to enable fast performance, even on mobile networks like 3G. Selector2Go gives you powerful core scheduling, schedule editing functionality and essential analysis details of your rotations in the palm of your hand.

RCS News is a state-of-the-art radio newsroom system, providing solutions for your entire news operation from newscast gathering, writing and editing to actual on-air broadcast and story archiving.

Aquira is a powerful and highly flexible Traffic system designed for local and national sized radio businesses. With its modern user interface Aquira provides real time access to sales and inventory data, and a vast range of scheduling, billing, and reporting options. Aquira helps you manage clients, prospects and sales team call activity. Aquira is the innovative solution to all your traffic needs.

GSelector is the world's most powerful multi-station scheduling system. With a single point of entry, flexible configuration and the most up-to-date technology, GSelector is the newest way to create great schedules.

Zetta2GO is an application that allows the control of a Zetta Automation/Playout system from an internet browser. Using a tablet or smart phone a user can view and fire off Hot Keys® for a station, from a laptop or remote desktop a user can control much more. A desktop Internet browser can display logs, Hot Keys and the Segue/Voice Track Editor allowing the user to voice track empty voice track Slots in the log, edit the segue of the voice tracks and fire hot keys from a Hot Keys bank.