INTRO AND FEATURES - Overview and Uses

A World of Possibilities


The TuneTracker™ System can execute most-any imaginable radio format that can be devised using a combination of pre-recorded digital audio files and live audio content, making it suitable for a wide variety of radio operations. Naturally, TuneTracker™ works for traditional over-the-air radio. But that's just the tip of the iceberg. From the public address system at Great Britain's largest aircraft fly-in, to on-hold radio, to truck stop radio, TuneTracker™ is showing up all over the place!

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•   Mainstream Radio Stations
  Let's start with the obvious. Command Center is used all over the world by commercial and non-commercial AM and FM radio stations broadcasting every conceivable format. But read on, to see some of the many other venues TuneTracker is broadcasting to.
  
  
  
•   Internet Radio Stations
  Tens of thousands of Internet radio stations are springing up all over the world. Some are hobby stations, some are corporate, some are commercial. They span every imaginable format. TuneTracker™ cut its teeth doing Internet radio, and we can tell you from personal experience it's ideally suited to it. If you want to get some ideas about what you can do with an Internet radio station, visit our web site and listen in.
  
  
  
•   International Radio Services
  There are many hundreds of wonderful national and international radio stations providing news and public service programming, often in many languages simultaneously. These stations can be automated flexibly and reliably using the TuneTracker™ System and inexpensive PCs, and transmitted over shortwave, AM, FM, satellite, or the Internet.
  
  
  
•   Religious Radio
  The TuneTracker™ System is very popular among Christian radio stations as an inexpensive way to do live and automated broadcasting. There are a considerable number of Christian stations running TuneTracker™. Because small, low-budget Christian stations often require significant walk-away time, Operations Managers and Program Directors consider TuneTracker's "Infinite Walkaway™" feature a literal Godsend!
  
  
  
•   Campus Radio Stations
  Communications professors appreciate that TuneTracker System's documentation assumes no prior experience in radio, and does an admirable job of introducing new people to radio concepts. We start with a history of radio automation. Next, we walk newcomers through the steps of creating a radio station, including researching formats, selecting programing elements, designing format clocks, preparing voice tracking, editing music, and much more. TuneTracker's simple, straight-forward interface makes it a super-fast learn for students, and its high level of reliability helps assure a more satisfying first experience with radio.
  
  
  
•   Corporate Internet and Intranet
  Corporations have the ability in TuneTracker™ to broadcast their own radio stations to their employees, clients, and potential clients, over both the Internet, and their own corporate intranets, or both. These stations can be used to provide music and information, to advertise, to broadcast live or recorded meetings, speeches, and convention events, to provide training to remote staff, and education and support to customers.
  
  
  
•   Low Power FM (LPFM) Stations
  A new and exciting world of broadcasting has opened up in the United States, as the FCC has begun awarding low power FM licenses to cities, businesses, churches, civic groups, and other organizations who wish to share information with their local communities. Use TuneTracker to broadcast not only community service information and music, but local concerts, city council meetings, church services, and other extended events, either live or pre-recorded.
  
  
  
•   Hospital Radio Stations
  These wonderful, non-profit stations serve the patients at hospitals, via closed circuit or low power signals. Normally operated on a thin budget, and staffed by good-hearted volunteers, hospital radio stations run a combination of automated and relayed broadcasts, often interspersed with evening call-in requests. With its easy-to-learn features, professional performance, and live-assist capabilities, at a price well-below the alternatives out there, TuneTracker is ideally suited to hospital stations.
  
  
  
•   Drive-in/Drive-through/Parking Lot Radio
  Banks, restaurants, and other businesses that have drive-in service can easily obtain broadcast licenses and inexpensive transmitters which allow them to broadcast messages to their customers and patrons on their car radios. Use TuneTracker™ to talk about the latest offers, specials, promotions, services, expansion plans, new branches, etc.
  
  
  
•   Drive-by Radio
  Organizations, governments, and tourism boards often sponsor drive-by radio stations in communities, posting a sign encouraging motorists to tune in for local tourism information about events, activities, parks, camping, and recreation activities. Because if its low price, TuneTracker™ is a great choice for low power stations at parks and other tourist locations, tunnels, bridges, customs checkpoints, airports, parking ramps, truck stops, at entry points to cities, and anywhere else where information needs to get out to drivers. TuneTracker™ can be set to loop forever, providing reliable walk-away broadcasting and easily-updatable content.
  
  
  
•   On-Hold Radio
  Rather than risking an ASCAP or BMI lawsuit by playing the local radio station or commercial CDs over your company's on-hold system, you can use an inexpensive TuneTracker System combined with equally-inexpensive, readily-available buy-out music (we can point you to companies providing them) to play for your on-hold "listeners." You can not only control the style of your music, but even intersperse it with announcements, radio-style, to salute employees of the month, talk about sales and promotions, point people to your web site, anticipate their questions and provide immediate answers, inform about your hours of operation, etc. Not comfortable recording the announcements yourself? Write to us and we'll record them for you inexpensively.
  
  
  
•   Public Address Radio
  Radio over a public address system? You bet! TuneTracker™ has been used for such lofty events as the Royal Air Force Fly-in in Great Britain as a means of providing regular announcements through the public address system. Because TuneTracker™ can be scheduled to pause between announcements, it is ideal for such purposes. Pauses can all be different lengths if you like. TuneTracker™ can even be scheduled to drop in announcements at specific times. "Ladies and Gentlemen, this hour in the livestock pavilion..."
  
  
  
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