Scheduling community service announcements to be broadcast on the hour

We are a community radio station in country Australia.  We are evaluating RadioBOSS and working out how to run a fully automated station.  There will be times that we will run a live program, but 95% of our programing will be prepared in advance and scheduled and broadcast automatically.  Our coverage area has a population of 8,000 people spread across 10 small towns within 10-20 minutes drive of one another.  The towns vary in population from 120 to 2,000 people.

So far we have created playlists for:
1. Station ids and jingles
2. Brief local content of interesting things (did you know, where to go) 
3. Easy listening music
4. Community service announcements (community calendar etc)
5. Sponsor messages from local businesses

Most of the content above can be structured and inserted into a playlist that runs for 4 hours (or whatever) using the playlist generator.  We've worked out how to schedule the 4 hour playlist to start at a pre-determined time and day.

What we want to know is how do we insert our community service announcements so they are broadcast every hour on the hour ?


Thanks in advance, Jamie & Tom
 
You should use the scheduler. If you want to play one announcement from the announcements list (playlist or folder), add scheduler task and click the Wizard icon (top right corner), then follow the instructions.

In the "Time and Day" section select "Hours" and click "..." button. Select the hours when you need the announcement to be played and minute. For instance, you selected the 12, 13, 14 and 15 hours, the minute is set to "20" - your announcement will play at 12:20, 13:20, 14:20 and 15:20.
 
Thanks,

But if I use the scheduler for the community announcement on the hour every hour does the extended 4 hour playlist stop and wait for the scheduled event and then restart afterwards ?
 
You can make announcement wait until current track finished (the "Run scheduled launch without waiting..." option should be unchecked), play the announcement, and then play next track from the playlist.
Or, you can lower the volume of playing track and play the announcement - check the "Play above the air" option.
There's "Run Now" button in the scheduler area - you can test how tasks work easily.
 
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