Your station is one of the invited stations to be featured on the site!  The initially invited stations are:

KCR   1620 AM San Diego State University, San Diego CA KDVS   90.3 FM Univ of CA Davis, Davis CA KTRU   91.7 FM Rice University, Houston TX KUSF   90.3 FM Univ of SFR, San Francisco CA KVRX   91.7 FM Univ of TX at Austin, Austin TX WCBN   88.3 FM Univ of MI, Ann Arbor MI

WFMU   91.1 FM Jersey City NJ WMBR   88.1 FM MIT, Cambridge MA WNUR   89.3 FM Nothwestern Univ, Evanston IL WREK   91.1 FM Georgia Tech, Atlanta GA WSUM   91.7 FM Univ of WI, Madison WI WXYC   89.3 FM Univ of NC, Chapel Hill NC

In the future, participating stations will be able to decide BY VOTING which new stations can become part of grapefruitmusic, making sure that the mission of the site is not "contaminated" by commercial interests.

• feature all participating radio stations as a COMMUNITY

• offer web based REAL-TIME PLAYLIST capabilities

• offer web based AUTOMATIC TOP CHARTS GENERATION will generate the station's top 50 bands played and DJs can dig down for more detail online.

• management of ARCHIVED PLAYLIST by the DJs and the stations

• offer a dynamic STATION MUSIC CALENDAR maintained by station DJs, viewable by everyone on the web

• offer dynamic station PROGRAM SCHEDULE with show and DJ pages maintained by DJs

• DOWNLOAD PLAYLISTS generated by your station in a tab-delimited text format to be easily exported into any other system...  (requires a station manager login!)  there will be many more useful reports to download later on.

• forward real-time ONLINE REQUESTS from listeners to the DJ "ON AIR".

• provide convenient LINKS for listeners to all existing AUDIO FEEDS, station home pages and EXTERNAL DJ AND SHOW PAGES for each featured station (all links are managed by the station personnel)

• ALL INFO MANAGED BY THE STATION personnel, either DJs or station managers

• DJs are able to MANAGE BANDS such as request correction in mis-spelled band names, or request the deletion of inappropriate bands for the site.

• view developments for FUTURE FUNCTIONALITY driven by station suggestions that will be continuously built into the system

Probably the greatest benefit will be for your LISTENERS (see below) who will KNOW WHAT THE HELL YOU ARE PLAYING and then will go and SEE THOSE BANDS LIVE IN CONCERT and will BUY THEIR MUSIC WITH MUCH LESS HESITATION!!!

Also, compare the FREE FUNCTIONALITY given to the stations and their listeners with any other site.

Once the system is public, you may use your login as a DJ or station manager.  As a guideline, station personnel should complete the following things to ready their station area for public use:

• STATION MANAGERS should have

  • delegated station manager rights to the right people (for security, there should only be a maximum of 3 people per station with this right...)

  • updated the list of station DJs to the most up-to-date list with proper settings

  • filled out the station program schedule and assigned shows to weekly timeslots (creating the shows in the system at the same time).

    NOTE: there is no need to fill out the show details other than the name of the show, as DJs assigned to the show will be able to do that...

  • assigned DJs to shows.  DJs will then be able to update their shows' details

  • updated the station's audio feed links so listeners can click to listen from the station detail page.

    NOTE: it is a benefit to your listeners to link right away to your audio links.  however you can put any link here you choose, like the link to your station's homepage or listen page ass well.  some stations who have Javascript links to their audio links might have to do that...

  • updated the station's basic info that appears on the station detail page.

• STATION DJs should have

  • updated their DJ info

  • updated show info for the shows that are assigned to them

NOTE: If you are NOT one of the initially invited stations and would like to join, fill out the new station application and stations on the system will be able to vote on your application.

the site is organized into three main areas:

• HOME AREA
  This is the main page where listeners can see and link to all the station detail pages and see which stations are "ON AIR" on the system.   For each station basic information such as name, location and the genres of the current show on air is viewable.

  Each station link leads to the detailed station page that is specific to one radio station.  If the station is "ON AIR" then there is information on the currently playing artist (as entered by the DJ "ON AIR" at the station...)   There are links to the most recent playlist, past playlists, music calendar, program schedule, and there is the online requesting feature that sends listener requests to the station real time.

  If the listener who views this page is a registered listener, then the currently playing song can be added to the listners "favorits collection"

   

• LISTENER AREA
  This is a personalized view for each registered listener.  This is the place where a listener can view and update all the bands in his/her "favoroits collection".  The favorits collection is a list of bands the listener heard on one of the featured radio stations and wanted to track.  Bands can be added to the collection by adding the currently plaing artist from an online radio station, or by listeners manually adding their favorits to the list. 

  The most powerful feature of this area is the monthly " calendar view of the favorits".  This is a monthly calendar of events of the bands that are in the listener's favorits collection.  

  The way it works is that the listeners add bands they care about to their collection.  Each band can have events - such as concerts - that are entered to the system by DJs maintaining their station music calendars.   If the band is part of a listener's favorits collection as well, then the event entered by the DJ to the station music calendar will also show up on that listener's calendar view of favorits.

  This way "I can see that the band I heard on the radio last week and really liked, will actually play next Friday at this venue and I will make the effort to go and see them".   This is great for the listener, the DJ and the bands.  Otherwise many would have missed the show, not knowing that it was a band they really liked...

  The theory is that the listeners "trust" the DJs at certain radio station for their good taste and expertise in the music.

   

• STATION AREA
  This is the workplace of the DJs and station managers.  This area is login/password protected.  Each DJ and station manager will have their own login and password.

  There are two levels of access to the station functionality.  The first level is the DJ login.  Everyone with a DJ login will have access to DJ functionality:

  • go "ON AIR" and create current station playlist real time

  • update station music calendar

  • maintain their own past playlists

  • generate/view station top charts

  • maintain their DJ and show info

  • submit band maintenance requests

  • view currently scheduled development on the system

   

  In addition to having DJ functionality, the station manager login enables the following additional functionality:

  • edit station program schedule

  • view station DJ ON AIR login activity

  • update, add, delete station DJs, delegate

  • update, add, delete audio feeds links

  • maintain basic station information

  • manage radio shows and assign DJs

  • generate summary station reports

  • download station playlists