Back in the 70's I worked at a station that had an automation system that had wonderful time clock that was always on time. It was recorded by the local announcers. Now in the computer age I'm having trouble finding anything that can match the old time clocks. Does anyone know if there is software for time checks? We're using Digital Jukebox. Is there a program for the "time" that could be used with Digital Jukebox? I would hate to have to purchase a complete new system since the time checks are the only thing missing. Back in the day we had the even minutes on one cart and the odd minutes on the other cart. I'm starting to miss the '70s.
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Time Clock Software For Radio Stations?
- Thread starter shreveville
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Got any friends who are computer geeks that like to muck around with programming? Creating a bit of software that would work with your present systems should not be... well... should not be "rocket science" level activity.
Roll your own?
Roll your own?
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OttoM
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You didn't say which automation system you were running, but if it supports "rotator" carts and dayparting down to the minute level, you could create a rotator with the time announcements in it, and the dayparting would pull the proper cart from the stack when the rotator airs.
Have your automation send a closure (then appropriate dead-air cart time) to this thing and you're set. With new toys like this it's MUCH easier than the 70s. 
Does anyone remember the singing clocks and how much "fun" they were to keep on time? LOL!
Does anyone remember the singing clocks and how much "fun" they were to keep on time? LOL!shreveville said:
You already have a time check in DJB. This is a command in any of the current verisons. Insert command in your playlist or schedule. You pre-record the minutes and hours. Guess what/ Many jocks? Each can do this for his or her show. Also record temps from 20 below to 120 and then insert in the playlist the Temperature. Multiple jock options.
I still want to find audio of the old nasty singing clocks. Tick Toc Tick Toc Tick toc...It's 6 oclock.OKCRadioGuy said:Have your automation send a closure (then appropriate dead-air cart time) to this thing and you're set. With new toys like this it's MUCH easier than the 70s.
Chief Engineer, how does the Jukebox time checks stay on time? I know the Jukebox suggest about what time it should be each hour which is often inaccurate if any commercials are added after the log is generated. Thanks for any suggestions.
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aberdeenman
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The app only checks the time right before it picks the 'time' cart - the jocks record "It's 5:56.... It's 5:57....It's 5:58...etc" name the carts accordingly and the system will pick "5:55" at 5:55, etc.
Temp works the same way..
The jocks will love you for giving them 720 liners to cut, plus temp...haha - try that one on a network provider.
edit: Audiovault had that option as well, but I could never sell the idea to get that many liners cut to support it.
Temp works the same way..
The jocks will love you for giving them 720 liners to cut, plus temp...haha - try that one on a network provider.
edit: Audiovault had that option as well, but I could never sell the idea to get that many liners cut to support it.
shreveville said:
I schedule everything so I have never noticed a problem. I have changed a song here and there though which would cause a change if this were the case. When the command line says play this it will check the time and play the time at that point. Same thing with any DJB command like multiple cut carts, etc.
Her e in Indiana I have had insane problems with XP and time change patches. Don't trust them. I can't tell you how many times XP decided our time zone changed. I had always hoped we would stay on the same time year round and some idiot changed it.
I guess the reasoning was if you want to do business with New york you have to be on New York time. So we put our entire state on New York time. Why don't we just move there? I guess just changing time for a few businesses that do business with New York businesses didn't make sense??
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aberdeenman
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The OMT software came with a little app called abouttime which is a pretty straight forward program that checks net time and updates the local clock, you can set the frequency of updates if you have a wandering clock, you can also set it up to check time on another machine in your building in case you need to 'gateway' a machine to isolate a specific network.
with this type of program though, remember to disable 'time zone updates' and windows time updates, so that the two don't fight to set the clock.
with this type of program though, remember to disable 'time zone updates' and windows time updates, so that the two don't fight to set the clock.
Thanks everyone for the help.
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