Optimizing your Selector

Some questions Better Radio Programming ask in order to optimize your music software (Selector, MusicMaster, PowerGold & Music 1) and to make your music scheduling better:

• Does your music rotate the way you really want? Are the most-played songs, really your best songs? Are the best-testing songs exposed properly and in accordance with your expectations?
• Are your clocks, categories and rule-settings designed and optimized for your station and format?
• Is the set-up of the music scheduling software optimal for your format? There's a big difference between a perfect CHR database and a perfect AC database
• Are your music codes and rule-settings optimal for your station and relevant for your strategy / library / format? Do your current settings work for or against the library and the strategy?
• Do some songs play the same time day after day? What causes the problem?
• Are there power songs that almost never get played? Are there secondary songs that get more plays than the powers? How are the station's core artists exposed?
• Does the number of songs in each category create good natural rotations? How would any changes in the number of songs you play in each category change your rotations?
• How is the music you play helping the station?
• How many times do you expose the music to your average listener during a week?
• How many times do you need to play a song before it becomes familiar?
• How much time do you spend preparing the music log? How can changes in the software set-up make your work more effective and give you time to do other important things?
• Do you have artist separation problems? Are you using the “good tricks” to solve these problems?
• How is each music category featured in the clocks?
• How much special programming do you do?