radiodungog
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Dmitry,
Our station runs 24 hours a day and 7 days a week. We have 12 volunteer presenters and only 1 person to organise the admin and scheduling of content on RadioBOSS - that's me.
We have news, community notice board events (CNB), adverts and shows that go to air automatically with RadioBOSS - and some of these have to be inserted and others removed from the scheduler when I'm not there. I am in the studio 3 mornings per week and do most of the admin and scheduling on Wednesday mornings at 9am for the following 7 days.
Currently there are some CNB events that need to be inserted or removed on the 4 days when I am not there - so I have used remote login to alter these - but it's not always possible to do this.
To do a whole week's worth of CNB events in advance I have devised the following strategy:
1. Create a series of standard playlists to hold the CNB events for each day of the week
2. Create a single playlist to hold today's CNB events to go to air "today"
3. Use the RadioBOSS scheduler to call up a DOS batch file on each day to copy the correct content into the today playlist
4. Have the scheduler ONLY play the playlist called today (news_cnb_00_today)
5. The playlist strategy would look like this:
news_cnb_00_base
(contains a generic fill-in announcement about the events calendar in case there are no community events announcements available for a specific day)
news_cnb_00_today
(the playlist that is put to air each day by the scheduler)
news_cnb_01_monday (event announcements for the next monday)
news_cnb_02_tuesday (event announcements for the next tuesday)
news_cnb_03_wednesday "
news_cnb_04_thursday "
news_cnb_05_friday "
news_cnb_06_saturday "
news_cnb_07_sunday "
Each night at midnight the RB scheduler runs a DOS batch file and copies the correct day playlist to the "news_cnb_00_today" playlist for broadcast. It also copies the base playlist to the previous day's playlist to wipe current content and replace it with the generic message.
Example:
=====
@echo off
REM: CNB rotation for Monday (There are 7 different batch files - one for each day of the week)
copy "w:\1_station_msg\blocks\news_cnb_01_monday.m3u" "w:\1_station_msg\blocks\news_cnb_00_today.m3u"
copy "w:\1_station_msg\blocks\news_cnb_00_base.m3u" "w:\1_station_msg\blocks\news_07_sunday.m3u"
exit
=====
6. I would do all of the admin scheduling every Wednesday morning at about 9am and that would cover all the events content for the next week.
Does this look like a reasonable strategy ?
Is there a simpler way to do it ?
Thanks, Jamie C.
Our station runs 24 hours a day and 7 days a week. We have 12 volunteer presenters and only 1 person to organise the admin and scheduling of content on RadioBOSS - that's me.
We have news, community notice board events (CNB), adverts and shows that go to air automatically with RadioBOSS - and some of these have to be inserted and others removed from the scheduler when I'm not there. I am in the studio 3 mornings per week and do most of the admin and scheduling on Wednesday mornings at 9am for the following 7 days.
Currently there are some CNB events that need to be inserted or removed on the 4 days when I am not there - so I have used remote login to alter these - but it's not always possible to do this.
To do a whole week's worth of CNB events in advance I have devised the following strategy:
1. Create a series of standard playlists to hold the CNB events for each day of the week
2. Create a single playlist to hold today's CNB events to go to air "today"
3. Use the RadioBOSS scheduler to call up a DOS batch file on each day to copy the correct content into the today playlist
4. Have the scheduler ONLY play the playlist called today (news_cnb_00_today)
5. The playlist strategy would look like this:
news_cnb_00_base
(contains a generic fill-in announcement about the events calendar in case there are no community events announcements available for a specific day)
news_cnb_00_today
(the playlist that is put to air each day by the scheduler)
news_cnb_01_monday (event announcements for the next monday)
news_cnb_02_tuesday (event announcements for the next tuesday)
news_cnb_03_wednesday "
news_cnb_04_thursday "
news_cnb_05_friday "
news_cnb_06_saturday "
news_cnb_07_sunday "
Each night at midnight the RB scheduler runs a DOS batch file and copies the correct day playlist to the "news_cnb_00_today" playlist for broadcast. It also copies the base playlist to the previous day's playlist to wipe current content and replace it with the generic message.
Example:
=====
@echo off
REM: CNB rotation for Monday (There are 7 different batch files - one for each day of the week)
copy "w:\1_station_msg\blocks\news_cnb_01_monday.m3u" "w:\1_station_msg\blocks\news_cnb_00_today.m3u"
copy "w:\1_station_msg\blocks\news_cnb_00_base.m3u" "w:\1_station_msg\blocks\news_07_sunday.m3u"
exit
=====
6. I would do all of the admin scheduling every Wednesday morning at about 9am and that would cover all the events content for the next week.
Does this look like a reasonable strategy ?
Is there a simpler way to do it ?
Thanks, Jamie C.