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Category Rotation Changes With Clocks
Give the songs in a category more spins a week by adding units of that category to your format clocks.
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Should you want to increase the spins for the songs in a category, just add an additional unit of that category to one or more of your format clocks. The short video below demonstrates how to do it. The songs in the category are all set for 2 spins a week. One quick clock change then has them getting 3 spins a week. Another clock change produces 4 plays a week for each song.
Watch the video on YouTube: Category Rotation Changes With Clocks
Change a category’s rotation with your clocks
Two numbers drive the rotation of every category: the number of songs in the category, and the number of times the category is formatted on your clocks. Change either one and the rotation changes.
How it works
Take a category named Country Edge with 61 tracks. The Average Turnover chart shows that Country Edge is formatted every other hour throughout the week: 84 positions a week.
Divide the 61 tracks into the 84 calls and you get the rotation pattern each song receives. If a Country Edge song first plays at 9 am on Monday, it comes up again at 11 am the following Saturday, and then at 1 pm the following Thursday. Each song comes back to the top of the stack for rescheduling 5 days and 2 hours later.
Changing the number of songs in the category would change the rotation pattern and the number of spins. But here the goal is to play these songs a lot more often, so we increase the number of times the category itself is formatted.
Format the category more often
This station uses just two format clocks. Clock 2 has Country Edge at the top of the hour; clock 1 doesn’t use it.
In Formats, switch one category slot on clock 1 to Country Edge. The category is now formatted once every hour. The songs repeat every 2 days and 13 hours, and each one gets three plays a week.
For more, add one more Country Edge to one of the clocks, here on clock 1 at a quarter past the hour.
Back in the category, the effect shows: Country Edge is now called for 252 times a week, and with 61 songs the turnover is 1 day, 16 hours and 40 minutes. The grid shows the new rotation.