Prerequisites

  1. An automation system that allows direct FTP download of audio files OR

  2. An automation system that has an import folder that can work with middleware like Radio Spider or GoodSync to accept the downloaded audio files (if you are already using Mr. Master/AIM, it can be set up to get our files as well).

  3. Reasonably reliable internet connection (the file sizes aren’t very large, so just about anything will work)

  4. Operations or engineering staff to set up the program carts

  5. Traffic staff to assign cart numbers for the spots

  6. Traffic staff to set up “invoicing” or “affidavits” for network commercials

The cart numbers for the programs are the same each day (Mon-Fri). They are just replaced when new content is available.

The cart numbers for the spots are “piggybacked” into 60-second chunks. The same numbers are used each day, but they are dropped into different daily folders on the FTP server. This makes it possible to traffic the same cart numbers each day of the week, taking a load off of the traffic staff. Typically, the new spots are available in the wee hours of the morning that the traffic logs are run (ie Tuesday’s spots will be available to download before 3 am on Monday morning, Wednesday’s spots will be available on Tuesday morning early, etc.). Saturday’s and Monday’s ads are sent in the early morning on Friday.

Here is the list of program and spot filenames for KIN:

https://radionetworks.com/kin-home-page/kin-daily-feed-schedule

Spots are mp3 files, while the programs are wav files.

And here is the same info for KAN:

https://radionetworks.com/kan-home-page/kan-daily-feed-schedule

Each station/market will have its own set of credentials to fetch and download the spots. This is to accommodate possible regional ad buys with copy splits for different markets.

Also, if your traffic system can create “invoices” or “as run” affidavits, then you can generate the necessary proof of performance for our network ads. We have a couple of stations that are already doing this. One does them monthly, and the other generates them weekly.