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DJB Radio Production Suite

DJB Radio Production Suite
1

Station Info

1. Station Info
This area shows the station call letters, location, and slogan fields.  All of these fields are located in the program settings.
You can also configure multiple stations to be used with one Production machine.
For multiple stations you will need mapped drives into each station's hard drive where JBData and JBMusic are located.
Then you can use the drop down box to choose which of the stations you want to work with.
2

License Status and Software Version

2. License Status and Software Version
This area shows whether your software is licensed. 
If you need to move a license from one PC to another, the DeActivate License button allows you to deactivate the license for later activation one anther computer.
At the bottom, the orange text shows the product name and version number.
3

Production, Programming,

On Air, and Engineering Boxes

3. Production, Programming, 
On Air, and Engineering Boxes
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
These boxes contain the individual functions commonly needed for each group.  We will look at each box separately below.
 
NOTE: Each of these boxes can be password protected to control access to key functions.
The passwords are set in DJB Radio Production, under Program Settings, then Security Set Up.
You can set any of the four Box passwords and check the "Enable Security" checkbox to activate.
 
 
4

Production Box

4. Production Box
This box contains item used by producers:
Production: This is the main Database Editor.
Multi-Cut Carts: This allows creating and editing of Multi-Cut Carts.
Razor Blade Audio Editor: DJB Radio's built-in digital editor.
5

Programming Box

5. Programming Box
This box contains items used by schedulers (Program Directors, Traffic Managers, etc.):
Log Editor: This can view an existing log, even today's log and make changes.
Scheduler: This has an entire suite of functions for creating shells, generating logs, and running reports.
Sports Interface Editor: This is used to setup game clocks in the Sports Interface.
Time and Temp Setup: This allows you to record and schedule voices to announce the time and temperature automatically.
6

On Air Box

6. On Air Box
This box contains items typically used by on air staff:
VoiceTracking: This allows on air staff to insert voicetracks or record (or rerecord) already scheduled voicetracks.
Hot Key Editor: This allows editing of the buttons on the On Air Hotkeys pane.  Each personality can have their own pages of Hot Keys.
Manual Weather Updater: This allows editing of the text in the On Air's weather pane. 
Bear in mind when the DJB Weather Updater sends its hourly update it will overwrite this information.
7

Engineering Box

7. Engineering Box
This box contains sensitive functions usually reserved for Engineers or Operations Managers:
Edit Satellite Grid: This is where you set which satellite I/O control set to use by day and hour.
Edit I/O Controls: This is where you can create up to 99 different satellite shows.
Edit Command Cuts: This is where you can find, create and edit command cuts that can be placed in the schedule or added manually.
BGR Schedule: This is where you create Back Ground Recording (BGR) schedules and activate or deactivate this feature in general.
IVT Audio Scooper: This "scoops" the intros/outros of your audio library for us in Internet VoiceTracking (IVT).
IVT Create Schedule Pack: Also for IVT, this creates a zipped file of schedules from the JBData\Schedules folder and makes it available for IVT use.
Program Settings: This is where the station settings are changed. 
 
All of the features above will be explained in more detail in the following sections.
8

Exit Button

8. Exit Button
Click this to exit the Production Suite
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