The user can create so many programs as he wishes. The program will be sent in the date and to the hour that it is specified. For that reason, the person in charge of the programming of the radio station can leave programmed all the emission for a long space of time, including music, indicatives or jingles, and of course the publicity to emit.

It is the module that is used by many of our clients, for example to maintain closed the radio station during periods of vacations, month of August, etc.

The method to make an automatic programme planning is the following one:

Firstly, we must know clearly the idea that a program can contain individual files or combinations of files previously created that will be emitted in the date and to the hour that we determine.

The interface of the programming module is similar to a 'planning' and has different kinds of visualization (daily, weekly, monthly, annual and playlist format) to facilitate the location of the day in which we want to insert the program.

More detail:

You must select the day in which the program will be emitted. Next the hour of emission is selected and it appears the window of selection of the Minute. This window allows to select the minute of emission, and would allow to insert more programs within the same hour interval, that is to say a program in the minute 10 and another one in the minute 22 for example.

Once added the program we can accede to a screen where we will select what  must be emitted one is due to emit. (songs, advertisement, indicatives or Combinations with these elements).

As you can appraise in the image we have three different folders that  mark the three steps to follow to generate the program:

1. When emit . We can select if we want that the program emits a single time (normally), daily (with possibility of selecting the days of the week in which it will be emitted, and until what date) and Several times the day (that will allow to select how often the program will be repeated too).

2. What emit. Where we will select the sound files to emit or, as normally it is made, the combinations that contain all the songs as well, advertisements, etc.

3. Options. We will select if the program will have to be emitted to the exact hour or no, allowing that finishes the song that is sounding or interrupting it directly. It is allowed to select the channel where the program will be emitted.

It is necessary to consider that we can have actived or deactivated the programs to emit of individual or general form. That is to say, that we will even have an option that will deactivate all the programs automatically, or simply a certain program.

AERadio will warn in advance of the automatic emission of a program through an emergent window to warn the announcer that AERadio is going to take the control of the emission.

Of course the edition or modification of a program, its delete, the total erase of the programs are allowed, as well as the delete of the old programs already emitted.

With the different kinds of visualization we will have therefore a grill with the detailed programme planning and in graphics mode.

 

Example of a joint use of the module of programming with the one of Combinations.

We are going to plan an assumption in which the power of the module of programming next to the one of combinations is appraised:

Let us imagine that we want that our computer automatically emits a combination composed by 200 songs (previously we will have made the combination with those 200 subjects), that  will be repeated during the month of August, but in random order in each repetition. Of that way the listener will not always listen to the songs in the same order nor to the same hour.

When placing the combination in the reproduction list we will also cause that it automatically inserts jingles or indicatives of our radio station each X songs randomly.

Now, the last thing to get is that the programming module emits the blocks of publicity to its determined hours. So, we will make so many programs as we need to put the day and the hour of emission. Also we can indicate if we want that the programs are emitted to one exact hour, if they let finish the present song or no, etc.

In conclusion, we can create a combination with all the music of the month, with our automatic  jingles, and the publicity with the form of programs with date and hour. We have been able to make the programme planning for all the month of August.