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Can anyone out there help me find a way to learn selector?
I'm trying to make myself as marketable as possible and obviously the more skills I bring to the table the better.
If there's someone who has access to it and can show me how to use it I would appreciate it greatly.
I can compensate you, though not much I'll do what I can.
Thanks!
 
CBS Seattle uses the software. I would do some research on their pages, and email someone on the programming team and ask them if you could sit in for a few days while they are scheduling music, imaging, or VT'ing.
 
I know the stations at Green River Community College used Selector, at least they did a few years ago. I'm not sure if that's the way you want to go, but they do have some of the best classes devoted to radio in the northwest (if not further) that I know of.
 
Selector is an older, dos-based program that can be somewhat complicated to younger users, mainly due to its limitations. However, it is still widely used today. It is hard for someone to teach it, the best way to learn it is to use it on a daily basis, and be involved in the process of determining its parameters. That won't make any sense, unless you are face to face with it.
 
searadiofreak said:
Selector is an older, dos-based program that can be somewhat complicated to younger users, mainly due to its limitations.
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Apparently you're still living in the mid-1990s. Selector has been on Windows since then.
 
Selector is one of those things that you should probably learn from a good PD or MD and pass it down... that's how I learned. Sitting in for a couple days will show you "the basics"--but I have spent hours and hours tweaking Selector to do what I want, and it takes a lot of time and patience to "bend it to your will"---after all, that's why knowing Selector can be considered an advantage ;-)

The easiest way is to start with a station's database that is already functioning and then modify it from there vs. starting from scratch... but you need to get the networking connections first. I am assuming you are already at a station--so go talk to your PD! If you aren't at a station yet, work on getting in part time and learning... Selector is one of those advanced things you will eventually learn--but there are TONS of things to learn in radio first. I still learn new things every day!

As for DOS vs. Windows, RCS *still* sells the DOS version--DOS has a number of keyboard shortcuts that make navigating Selector much easier than Windows (Windows Selector is basically the DOS software with a GUI). The old pros still swear by it--and honestly, that's what I learned on, and I miss it. That said, they now have GSelector out, which is where everything is eventually going.

James
 
Rob Stutson said:
searadiofreak said:
Selector is an older, dos-based program that can be somewhat complicated to younger users, mainly due to its limitations.
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Apparently you're still living in the mid-1990s. Selector has been on Windows since then.
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Sorry to differ with you, Rob, but Selector 15 was never a Windows program...it's HTML pages designed to look like Windows. The user can't open more than one "window" at a time and any "Windows" functionality is limited at best. GSelector is a Windows based system, but most of the programmers at Clear Channel, the parent company, want nothing to do with it. They'd rather use Selector 12 (DOS) than "upgrade." And being a DOS program, Selector 12 is pretty much maxed out for improvements or enhancements.
 
Yeah, and Selector is still being used in its Dos format for the majority of its users.
 
Hi there. As someone who has used Selector from the first day it was invented, I can help you. First of all, RCS has training sessions for Selector users, either online with Webex, or here in White Plains at our headquarters. We are a 30 minute train ride north from New York's Grand Central terminal. People learn differently. Some people like to read about the product. In the old days, we had a phone book-sized tutorial that covered the older DOS version. But today with Selector (windows) and GSelector (goal scheduler) we have everything in tutorial discs. You should write to [email protected] to get those, but also, if you have the program installed on a computer, simply press F1 from any screen and the Help system is very helpful and can teach every part of the application.

I hope this helps, and if you have any other questions, please write to Paul McKnight who heads our support department.

Dwight Douglas
VP Marketing
RCS - Selector
 
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