PlayIt Live offers a powerful solution for this common broadcasting challenge through Daypart Separation Playout Policies. This feature ensures that regular listeners won't hear repetitive content during their typical listening periods, such as their morning commute or evening drive home.

Setting up Daypart Separation:

First, you'll need to define your dayparts by going to Manage > Dayparts. Create dayparts that match your listeners' regular patterns, such as "Breakfast" (6-10 AM, Monday-Friday), "Drive Time" (4-7 PM, Monday-Friday), or "Weekend Afternoon" (12-6 PM, Saturday-Sunday). You can set specific hours for each day of the week to precisely match your audience's listening habits.

Creating the Playout Policy:

Navigate to Manage > Playout Policies and click Add New. Select Daypart Separation Playout Policy from the options. Set the Track separation time to specify how many days must pass before the same track can play again within that specific daypart. For example, you might set this to 3-5 days for popular music to ensure freshness during peak listening times.

Applying to Track Groups:

You can apply these policies to specific track groups by checking Apply to specific track groups. This allows you to have different separation rules for different content types - for instance, applying strict daypart separation to your main music but allowing jingles and station IDs to repeat more frequently.

How it works:

Once configured, the PlayIt Live scheduler automatically tracks which songs have played during each daypart and prevents them from being selected again until the specified number of days has passed. This means someone who listens every morning during their commute won't hear the same song for several days, keeping your content fresh and engaging.

Requirements:

Daypart Separation Playout Policies require the Advanced Scheduling module.