What automation software to stations use?

[SuperJock]

Which automation software programs do the various radio stations use?

[EX Pirate Jock]

most stations I have worked for have used Raduga

[Trinity]

Also wavecard, easier to schedule if its not wall to wall music. although Raduga is very solid, but more a workhorse.

[Macers]

OTS Juke is popular too....

[Turiel]

Surely some use their computer playout programs for full automation too. The likes of RCS and er, that other one who's name I can't remember at the moment.

[Dougal_McGuire]

check out www.drs2006.com more flexabile than OTS

[Megawatts]

Magic 105, and Thunder 107.7 use Raduga, but we have been developing a completely new software system, allowing remote systems to be controled and music types to be better selected, depending of time of day and other mood requirements.

[KJ]

The thing that bugs me about Radugga is having to tag each tune if you want smooth slick fade in and outs ....... what's Sun using?

KJ

;)

[Arnold]

Sun's raduga too, you just have to put in the work!
Wavestation is another option.

[Michael Masterson]

madradio uses Raduga starting to make a lot of use of the mini playlist options but it is true takes a long periods of time and efford to get it mixing and sounding right + if you want different delays on the same track to be mixed with different tunes (entered into play list more than once) you have to have a few copies of the tune on the dive in different folders ,can get very confusing especially when you think that you have taken a tune out of the play list and it pops back also takes up a lot of space.

[ex-pirate]

In the north the Q network use software from an Irish Company called Radiomation, they always advertised in the old radio magazine AM/FM.
Anybody remember that magazine?

[Removed Member]

Radio 538 use Dalet 5.1 ... as do Radio City and a number of other top UK stations .... I had heard that WHTZ 100.3 FM - Thee world famous Z100 New York,New York also use this wonderfully versatile piece of kit to playout/automate on.

Probably the best automation system currently in use in Eire is 98FM's RCS Master Control, a system they installed after seeing it in use at Atlantic 252 Trim,County Meath*, who were the very first station in Ireland to install such a system.









*(a place in the sticks where good radio once came from if you are the type of person who has an inbuilt dislike of anything from "beyond the pale")

[Wheatus]

Onthebutton - RCS have installed a third Master Control system in Ireland since...

Answers on a postcard please...

[TheOneWhoKnows]

Spin 1038! They asked for it!!!

[Tabasco]

Master Control is very good but pricey. EnCo DAD is good, a lot cheaper. Lite and Red-fm use it. Most legals use Radiomation, which is also very good.
I found Raduga to be good for unattended use, not so easy to use live assist. One sound card is very limiting.
A good few stations in the UK use Myriad by P-Squared, which is great.