Radio Automation and Live Assist

Your Backbone Radio hosted online radio station comes with a no-cost license to Backbone Radio software. That means you get the highest performance radio automation software, enabling you to create a the most professional sounding programs right from your Macintosh computer.

Unlike ordinary streaming services, your Backbone Radio station lets you do things you can’t imagine with Internet and online radio. You can seamlessly transition between live audio from your microphone and mixer to server-based content, like digitally stored music, commercials, ads, clips, etc., without losing your listeners’ connections. Other services drop your listeners when you switch between live and playlist-based material…not Backbone.

Backbone radio automation software gives you features that you won’t even find in radio systems costing tens of thousands of dollars. Compare Backbone Radio to any other software you will find from competitive online radio services:

• Seamless transitions between live and radio automation content, at the click of a button, without losing your listeners
• Mobility of the MacBook platform, so you can broadcast live from remote venues, like concerts, ceremonies and sporting events, and insert clips and commercials via the automation software
• Multi-user capability lets teams simultaneously perform different functions, like scheduling, importing, creating reports and announcing live on air.
• Real-time control of playlists, using simple drag-and-drop
• Sophisticated radio scheduling, allowing you to create long-term schedules of playlists, with absolute or relative time starts and stops
• Standard rotation playlist management, so you can automatically generate always-fresh programs from playlist “templates”
• Create your station’s music library by importing mp3s, CDs and songs from your iTunes music library
• Integration with Apple’s iTunes store, automatically looks up and attaches titles, artist info, album art and purchasing links to songs in your station’s music library
• Disk recording, lets you record your live segments to disk and archive them in your library for creating future automated programs
• Integrated Postcast studio software makes podcasts from your shows and posts them on your website
• Special needs features, including “talking studio” assist for the blind