The Type or Category of these 5 tracks decides which tracks are picked in order to comprise the 2 hour event.įirst, make sure you are editing the station where you want to make these changes. Your ClockWheel could have 5 line items and you might schedule the ClockWheel for 2 hours. It does the work for you, playing a different mix of tracks each time you schedule a variation of the template.Īn important concept of ClockWheels is that they work like loops. ClockWheels let you schedule the same kind of event many times without having to make multiple playlists. You pick the track Types and Categories you want to be included in the template of the ClockWheel, and then the system automatically fills the event according to your specifications. Our ClockWheels module lets you create long events without having to manually make a playlist. It is also a convenient way to schedule ads, jingles, sweepers, and shout outs. This approach to music rotation ensures that new ( "hot," "current") songs are played at specific times of the day. A quick Google Image Search shows some visual images of what a radio ClockWheel looks like. The actual track that will be played is not manually selected, but each line item is predefined so that the broadcaster is deciding what kind of track will be played and when. For example, the phrase "bottom of the hour" references the wheel of the clock and indicates that a track will be played at thirty minutes after the current hour, when the minute hand is pointing to the bottom of the wheel. The term "clockwheel" (or format wheel) comes from terrestrial radio broadcasting, and refers to the cycle of when specific events happen during broadcasting. ClockWheels is like a template script for generating playlists and scheduling those playlists as events. ClockWheels is a tool which lets you easily schedule events that contain similar elements that occur at the same time or in the same sequence.