Customize or Build Your Own Widgets

Google Radio Automation is the only system in the world that lets you add custom widgets to the automation system. Custom widgets can be used to tightly integrate other pieces of broadcasting equipment or other computer programs with the automation system. Armed with our industry standard Application Programming Interface (API), third-party vendors, independent consultants or programmers on your own staff can create widgets for Google Radio Automation that can provide tight integration with other programs and/or address special needs and requirements.

Here are a few examples of some powerful custom widgets that are available today:

Interface to MusicMaster

Google Radio Automation has enhanced functionality when used with MusicMaster for Windows. For example, changes made to the music playlist in MusicMaster are immediately reflected in Google Radio Automation, making file-based log transfers a thing of the past. Google Radio Automation also tells MusicMaster automatically when each song has played for automatic reconciliation.

The combination of Google Radio Automation and MusicMaster gives you more control over your radio station’s programming in real time. When your announcers want to change a song in the playlist, MusicMaster will provide a list of perfect songs that have passed your scheduling rules. Google Radio Automation will then display the list on the screen. When the announcer picks one of the perfect songs, Google Radio Automation and MusicMaster automatically reconcile the change, ensuring the integrity of your on-air sound.

Interface to Phone Box

Broadcast Bionics’ Phone Box widget gives you new capabilities to to manage your telephone callers. The Phone Box widget allows you to answer the phone and place callers on the air directly from the Google Radio Automation screen! Phone calls can be recorded for later playback on air, too.

Interface to Sage Endec

Using the Google Radio Automation API, Sage Endec EAS decoder has a custom application that automatically inserts EAS broadcasts into the playlist, ensuring that they are broadcast legally, in the required timeframe, and that no commercials are interrupted.

Interface Directly With Other Systems

Google Radio Automation also offers unmatched opportunities for integrating our backend with other products and systems via our industry-standard API which allows access to the playlist engine, the inventory engine, the notification engine and more.

For example, your business development team may want to build a custom inventory management system. Using the API, the inventory management system can query or manipulate the automation inventory engine. Similarly, the same system could query or manipulate the playlist engine for scheduling or reconciliation.

For your security, the API is only available in your internal network. It gives you all the power you need to extend the automation in custom ways never before possible.

Interface with Consoles and Switchers

Google Radio Automation interfaces with consoles and switchers through an innovative plug-in architecture that makes it easy to add or update support for new broadcast equipment at any time.