Clocks & formatting

Build the hours your station plays: format clocks, clock items, spot breaks, clock rules, Dayformats and dayparts, in short videos.

Change or update one item on many format clocks at the same time instead of clock by clock.

Keep clocks with lots of short items readable by clustering them into one unit; everything still schedules as before.

Delete a format clock that M1 says is still in use, by first taking it out of the Dayformats it is on.

Handle the Daylight Saving Time change in a couple of clicks: drop an hour in spring, add an extra 1am hour in the fall.

Have M1 send your automation system the commands to join the network news and start a song at an exact time.

Schedule two-hour and 90-minute programmes with a program category, one clock and the (no clock selected) slot.

End every hour on a fade with a Closers category, or a sound code and Song From Search, and know the rotation trade-off.

Set aside a DJ-choice slot on your clocks with a non-music place-holder, so the hour content still adds up.

Use spot break units as merge points for your automation system, or to import the advertising schedule into M1.

Put spot break merge markers in your clocks, in Pro, SE or LE, so your automation system can merge the commercials.

Merge your commercial log into M1 with Spot Break for Merge units, and see why it beats letting automation do the merge.

Import your daily commercial log into M1 so you see every hour’s full content and send one merged log to automation.

Set up the import of Natural Log advertising logs into Music 1.

Have M1 schedule the right voice track or stager next to a song, like a Hit Year stager or an artist drop, automatically.

Know how the Category field and Link Types decide which linked track M1 schedules next to a song, and when it schedules nothing.

Schedule the right "Hit Year" stager right before each oldie, with Linked Tracks and Link Types or with the Hit Year field.

Give your DJs prompts on the log, like a birthday or a soundtrack fact, with Song Notes or Linked Tracks.

Name and daypart up to 10 announcers so each one’s promos and voice tracks schedule only in their own shift hours.

Line up remote announcers’ voice tracks without mistakes: one category, auto-numbered file names, and when to use rotators.

Play the Monday jingle on Monday and the Tuesday one on Tuesday by hour-restricting each jingle.

Give one promo or announcement more plays than the others in its category by cloning its card.

Format a weekly syndicated show with one category and one clock, with segments that update each week.

Add Christmas music by cloning clocks and Dayformats, and avoid title separation problems with rank order and packets.

Promise no repeats from 9 to 5 and keep it, with the right category turnovers and four set-up steps.