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Composer – Syndicated Programs

You may have heard about the new option for syndicated programs in Composer Pro and Basic. We’re collecting playlists for syndicated programs for SoundExchange reporting, and with Pro, this also means you’ll also be able to display syndicated program playlists (for the programs that are currently providing them to us).

To accommodate this change, we updated the way the add program options work. We also did our best to make sure your existing syndicated programs are now marked properly, but we may have missed a few here and there.

To make sure syndicated programs are entered correctly in your Program Guide, please check the following.

Program drop down: This contains a list of all programs currently in use on your program guide. Syndicated programs are listed in red, see below.

If a program is syndicated, but not listed in red, then Composer doesn’t know it’s supposed to be a syndicated program. You’ll need to edit or delete (in this case, it’s okay to delete) that entry.

  • Choose edit recurring program.
  • In the first Program drop down, choose “new program”
  • In the second “Add a Syndicated Program” drop down, choose the syndicated program.
  • The third field will auto fill with the syndicated program display name. If you’d like to edit that, e.g. change C24 to Classical 24, you may do so here.

Let us know if you have more questions!

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3 Responses to “Composer – Syndicated Programs”

  1. Public Interactive's SoundExchange Reporting Blog Says:
    July 12th, 2010 at 2:32 pm

    [...] the meantime, we’ve just posted a good reminder on the main Public Interactive blog about how to properly enter syndicated programming into your schedule grid, so that we can  integrate any playlists we get for your syndicated programs into your [...]

  2. Loren Dixon Says:
    August 10th, 2010 at 3:42 pm

    Thanks for the syndicated program link information. What about programs such as E-Town, Acousctic Cafe, etc. that are not on the syndicated listing. Are stations responsible for posting the playlists of these independently distributed programs? LD

  3. Suzanne Brendle Says:
    August 11th, 2010 at 4:05 pm

    Hi Loren,
    We’re going to be working with independent producers, too, to get as much syndicated playlist info into Composer as possible. Just takes a little time, but we’re making progress.
    Suzanne

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