How to schedule radio commercials.

[mebo870]

How to schedule radio commercials.

Advertising blocks should be named by date and time.
Example for June 15, 2022 between 15h00 and 15h59, three commercial blocks scheduled.
Block 1: 2022-06-15-15a.m3u
Block 2: 2022-06-15-15b.m3u
Block 3: 2022-06-15-15c.m3u
Year-Month-Day-Hour and suffixes a,b,or c (case sensitive)
The letter at the end of the block determines which m3u is called at that time. 

   
ENTRY UNDER EVENTS:
Options > Events

Enter a new event (green plus sign) First of all, enter a name, e.g. Advertising Block 1.
Click on "Repeat by day and hour", enter the desired start time in minutes (the hour is ignored because this event will be called every hour for the days and hours that are ticked).

Now click on the green plus button, click "load M3U playlist by date mark",
Select the folder where the m3u's are located.
ATTENTION: Under arguments enter yyy-MM-dd-HHa (note the lowercase a)
Click on "ad action" and then on "ad event".
For three commercial breaks, three such events must be created, each with its own argument.

Arguments: yyy-MM-dd-HHa for advertisement block 1
Arguments: yyy-MM-dd-HHb for advertisement block 2
Arguments: yyy-MM-dd-HHc for advertisement block 3

RadioDJ will now search every hour for m3u files corresponding to date and time plus the letter a, b or c at the end.

From 16h onwards this will be
Block 1 2022-06-15-16a.m3u
Block 2 2022-06-15-16b.m3u
Block 3 2022-06-15-16c.m3u   

From 17h onwards this will be
Block 1 2022-06-15-17a.m3u
Block 2 2022-06-15-17b.m3u
Block 3 2022-06-15-17c.m3u
etc..

M3U files are playlists that include advertisements.
Contents 2022-06-15-15a.m3u

#EXTM3U
D:\Zen Radio 5\Commercials\Lipton.wav
D:\Zen Radio 5\Commercials\Philips radio+.wav
D:\Zen Radio 5\Commercials\Jumbo.wav
D:\Zen Radio 5\Comercials\Aldi.wav
D:\Zen Radio 5\Comercials\Coca cola zero.wav

*Of course don't forget to enter the commercials in radioDJ under commercials.

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[PresidentOfACPJ]

How to schedule radio commercials.

Advertising blocks should be named by date and time.
Example for June 15, 2022 between 15h00 and 15h59, three commercial blocks scheduled.
Block 1: 2022-06-15-15a.m3u
Block 2: 2022-06-15-15b.m3u
Block 3: 2022-06-15-15c.m3u
Year-Month-Day-Hour and suffixes a,b,or c (case sensitive)
The letter at the end of the block determines which m3u is called at that time. 

But if hour is different or at least it was supposed to, why do you use that letters to determine with m3u is called? Is each block actually on separated and specific commercial audio in m3u? I mean do you create m3u playlists with only one audio and insert all of them one at one?

[Radio Ludbreg]

 

[mebo870]

For those who like to schedule advertising under radioDj.
I have created a tutorial to do that with AdsScheduler" from Radiobos.

https://www.mediafire.com/file/i0c86eus3ef2vx4/AdsScheduler_English.pdf/file

[stevewa]

What is the advantage of using RadioBoss Ad Scheduler, versus just doing it yourself inside RadioDJ?
I read the RBS help page for Ad Sched, and I didn't see anything which convinced me that it is better.

[mebo870]

Then you have never really tested AdsScheduler.
Radioboss by itself is nothing special but AdsScheduler is quite good.
In a week there are +/- 210 advertising blocks, or more,
how much time do you waste entering and correcting that manually.
That's a hell of a job.
A new advertiser, with AdsScheduler, a few mouse clicks.
The events in radioDj remain, but the m3u's are overwritten.

You can schedule each advertisement separately by block.
Supplied ads often jump from day and hour.
Schedule by date, start and stop dates, everything is automatically inserted or removed without worry.
Set advertisements by priority (top or bottom)
+ an overview.

And most important of all, it is compatible with RadioDj
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[stevewa]

yeah i have never needed to use AdsScheduler, that is why I was asking.

[PresidentOfACPJ]

For those who like to schedule advertising under radioDj.
I have created a tutorial to do that with AdsScheduler" from Radiobos.

https://www.mediafire.com/file/i0c86eus3ef2vx4/AdsScheduler_English.pdf/file

I though it was the download link of the AdsScheduler, but its only the tutorial, how can i download the software to test it? Thats not free! Here the question of our friend above makes sense, RadioDJ is totally free, ads scheduler from radioboss isn't. So do you know any other great alternative to schedule commercials into radiodj?

[Chip Douglas Mosley]

Hey PresidentOfACPJ...

The link to RadioBOSS is https://www.djsoft.net/enu/download.htm. You'll find links to all of their software there along with pricing for each element on RadioBOSS.

NOTE: I do not use this program, but have looked at it in the past. The only commercials I run are from Live365 so I don't use a scheduling program.

Hope this helps, and sorry for the delay in responding but I just read your posting on 10/31/2025.