3799 bytestraffic scheduling

Managing customers, booking of spots and traffic scheduling is an important task for most radio stations. Easy spot is a powerfull tool, that enables you to dramatically reduce the time you use to manage your customer and spot files, plan the scheduling of commercials and book the spots in any way you like it. We´ve designed the application with a high degree of flexibility so you can continue to use your present business rules in your commercials management.


"I have seen a lot of booking programs in my 13 years in the business and I must say that Easy Spot is the best I have ever seen. Easy Spot is easy to use for first time users and it will meet the needs required in even the most advanced bookings. After a testing Easy Spot in a few days, we decided to convert the data from our old system to Easy Spot. The old system had a lot of advanced features but Easy Spot is far superior in the areas of flexibility, ease of use and data security. One of the top most advantages is to have Easy Spot take two product codes and a speaker into account – NOT just between the blocks but inside the commercial block or stop set. The majority of the other programs I have seen will only allow a single product code and a speaker in each block. With this feature you can make a block like this: Auto dealer – Kitchen equipment – Restaurant – Auto dealer. Equivalent product codes will be placed as far from each other as possible and you can setup the minimum distance allowed. The restrictions you have made in the setup can easily be overruled and our booking is not controled by the application programmers. The integration to the other modules in the Radiohost system makes it possible to use the spots as soon as they are booked and you can make a last minute booking before going on air."
 
John G. Pedersen, program director, Radio 3, Denmark, Oct. 1999
 


Features
  • Auto- or manual booking
  • Special 5s
  • Spot rotation
  • Speaker, job line and ad hoc seperation
  • Contract control
  • Daypart booking
  • Fast unbooking and rebooking
  • Rotation of commercial block intros and outros
  • Spot breakers
Short description

Easy Spot is using a packet to group the spots you want to use in a booking process. When more spots are added to the packet the spots will rotate. You can force the packet into a specific position in the commercial block. In this way you can book Special 5´s or other position critical bookings.

From the main window in Easy Spot you can easilly manage your commercial bookings. Click hereThe week view gives you a good grasp of your bookings. When you use the auto book function, you will see a "preview" of the booking before the actual booking takes place. Of cause you can manually change the booking suggested by the system. The auto book function will use separation of speakers and two other types of your own choise. The booking is made for each packet. If you want to change the booking, simply unbook the packet you want to change and rebook the packet using a new set of booking properties.

In the week view you can see the use of each block. The percentage use of a block is shown as a bar on the block and you know exactly wich blocks are filled and wich are not.

The auto book function will even consider the daypart where you want to book. The daypart is added as a property when you make the packet, but you can change the daypart and other properties durring the booking process.

Easy Spot is designed with a high degree of flexibillity to help you run your station exactly the way you want to. Download the demo and see for yourself.

Hardware requirements

The hardware is not critical for Easy Spot. A powerfull PC will speed up scheduling and database access, but you can run Easy Spot on almost any system.

Computer:

Pentium II based or alike

Operating system:

Windows 95 or 98 (NT have only limited support of drivers and does not support the Darla sound card)

Sound card:

Standard Windows compatiple sound card.

Net card:

100 Mbit