On February 15th Absolute Radio in the UK launched a brand new sonic logo to bring the aural Absolute brand inline with the visual brand for the ‘Faces For Radio Marketing’ campaign.

“From vocals to a string quartet, the sonic sound was recorded live at the world famous Sunset Sound in West Hollywood. The iconic studio has hosted some of the greatest artists of our time including The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, The Beach Boys, Aretha Franklin, Sheryl Crow, Elton John, Bob Dylan & The Doors to name but a few.

Our very own Creative and Publishing Director Vince Lynch, who is based in Los Angeles, was the driving force behind the project, securing the services of an internationally acclaimed production team also based in LA, who have worked with the likes of Arcade Fire and Lauryn Hill.

The publishing and the master recordings of the tracks & songs are owned by One Golden Square Creative ltd (Absolute Radio’s music publishing arm) and administered by EMI Music Publishing which generates income annually across the Absolute Radio brand in publishing.

One Golden Square Creative ltd was the result of a pioneering agreement with EMI Music Publishing, the world’s leading publisher of popular music in September 2009, enabling a brand new revenue stream for the business .The deal is designed to provide us with the services of EMI Music Publishing’s renowned and extensive roster of writers and composers to clients who are able to commission bespoke songs and audio accompaniments for marketing campaigns. The deal not only covers audio for creative campaigns but can also be extended to encompass the publishing of songs recorded for general release.

Our original sonic logo was written & created by Sandy Beech at Music 4 and recorded at Abbey Road Studios in London when Absolute Radio was launched.”

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Music Radio Creative is pleased to announce the launch of a wide variety of new Christmas jingles just in time for the holiday season.

Customers have the option of downloading a generic Christmas jingle package or they can select to add a custom sung or spoken line to each jingle.

These jingles will make a great gift for a radio host or DJ looking to spice up their Christmas sound or perhaps a fun highlight to a Christmas party.

It is easy to place an order online or you can contact a customer service representative at Music Radio Creative if you need help or have questions about the ordering process.

There are also bespoke jingle packages available for Christmas or year round requirements.

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Double radio award nominated David Arnold Music has just added two brand new bespoke jingle packages to their website.

The custom imaging is for Minster FM in York and Kool FM in Arizona.

Minster FM’s 13 cut package includes everything from breakfast cuts through to News, Sport, Weather and Travel. Programme Director David Green said “The challenge of coming up with a jingle package that blended seamlessly with a really diverse playlist was a tough one – but David Arnold Music delivered the goods”

CBS’s Kool FM in Phoenix, Arizona, one of the most successful in the state, is equally delighted with its unique 15 cut jingle package. You can hear the Kool FM package at DavidArnoldMusic.com.

David said “Working on a number of different projects is always enjoyable. We continue to work on a variety of styles for very different stations, from Classic FM, Jazz FM and Heart, through to Minster FM and Kool FM. “

For more details or to listen to these and many other different packages in full, just visit www.davidarnoldmusic.com

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Newsbeds.com is an online music library specialising in news imaging and associated music beds for radio broadcast.

NBDC was created in 2007 to provide quality music beds with no upfront costs. The company also provides a unique compositional music service which operates to customise existing work parts as well as produce bespoke themes – also at no cost – for larger radio stations and networks.

Their news, travel, sports and weather beds can be heard around the world and have been accredited by radio stations and large networks alike. This is not only for it’s music but it’s simple to use audition and download facility which provides the user with the tools to get on air with a new sound quickly and effectively.

NBDC provides a no fuss straight forward service that gives full control to the user without jumping through hoops usually associated with acquiring music for broadcast purposes. They have also integrated an instant download system so users can now pick what they’d like, fill in a couple of details and instantly receive links to obtain the music.

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This Thursday, May 15th, ReelWorld are opening up the doors to their Production Vault service and challenging programmers to put their imaging talent to the test.

Whatever the production need — a new breakfast promo, station sweeper, music imager, branded intro — ReelWorld want to make it specifically for your station.

ReelWorld European Managing Director Anthony Gay said: “The team are always up for a challenge and the idea to spend a day focused on making imaging tailored to European stations came out of a meeting at the end of last year fuelled by bourbon and jet lag.”

For one day only the ReelWorld producers will be turning their attention to building bespoke content for stations across the continent using the ReelWorld Production Vaults – and, it’s all for free.

European Production Manager Andy Jackson commented: “At the last go we counted 315,263 different pieces of audio across our ten Production Vault formats. The service already makes it easy to make great radio and get high quality imaging on air quickly. For one day we’ll even do that last bit for you!”

Anthony Gay added: “Everyone likes free stuff but fantastic free stuff is hard to resist. I expect it’s going to be a busy day for the whole team. We’ve ordered a crate of Red Bull, a load of cake, and a masseur to help it go well.”

For those not in the know ReelWorld Production Vault comes in 10 different formats including CHR, Rock, Hot AC, Urban and Classic Hits.

The subscription based service is the world’s leading topical, constantly updating, radio imaging library and features promo shells, branded intros, sweepers, sound design, music beds and more, allowing stations to personalise imaging quickly and easily. The Production Vault websites were recently updated with new features and functionality.

Production Vault is already used by leading radio brands across Europe including NRJ, Kiss UK, KRONEHIT, 104.6 RTL Berlin, and FM104 Dublin.

Interested in taking part? Producers and programmers can e-mail control@reelworld.com with a brief and your station Voice Over to be added to the list. Official radio station e-mails only please.

You can follow the progress and hear audio on May 15th on Twitter @reelworldeurope using #YouControlReelWorld or through this Sound Cloud page

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Beds & Beats, the leading music library for the radio industry, says its revamped website, www.bedsandbeats.com, will not only improve the service it offers its existing clients but help them expand into the TV and multimedia sectors.

The new site has a whole host of new features that will make searching for music – and using what you find – so much easier. Those features include more intuitive searching meaning that there are bespoke, targeted playlists and features for topical events and key calendar dates.

The site is a joint effort and has been planned meticulously by the member base and team at beds and beats, with ground breaking design and programming by industry-leading design company Dreamshock with its ground-breaking search engine the work of the Australian firm Harvest Media.

Dave Bethell, CEO & Founder of Beds & Beats, said: “The thinking behind the whole site has always been to find as many ways as we can to better serve the radio industry and our current client base. After our recent successes with movie trailers and TV, we’re now able to expand even more when it comes to content – and that means a better service for everyone. It’s been a privilege to work with a large talent pool to bring out an exciting new website”

The musicians used by Beds and Beats regularly appear with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra with their work being mixed and mastered in both London and Los Angeles, frequently at the iconic Abbey Road studios.

Alongside the new website, Beds & Beats is delighted to announce that it will now be the exclusive provider of Benztown’s twenty imaging libraries and custom imaging services for radio stations in the UK. This new marketing and distribution deal will further add to Benztown’s growing reputation as an audio provider in the UK and expand its customer base worldwide. For Beds & Beats, its highly respected repertoire of music is swelled by incorporating Benztown’s music products into its own highly successful music library.

Speaking about the new partnership, Dave Bethell said: “I’ve been a fan of Benztown since the early days and am very excited to be offering such a groundbreaking set of products to the UK. This expands our arsenal of tools and gives our clients and users even more options than ever before. Welcoming Benztown to the UK is a big part of our current expansion.”

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Ministry of Sound Radio has a new Imaging package, produced by Daniel Mumford. Ministry of Sound Radio is an online only service broadcasting 24-hours a day from Ministry of Sound’s offices adjacent to the nightclub, receiving ¾ of a Million hits a week. The package features a whole new set of sweepers, idents, FX and Top of Hour sequences. It is the first station to use Daniel’s new FX package, ‘Dark Arts FX’. All Top of Hours feature the station’s new strap-line: The Home of Dance Music.

Daniel says, ‘I’m really proud to have worked with such an iconic brand as Ministry of Sound. I’ll be providing the station with updates to keep the sound as current as possible!’

Programme Controller for Ministry of Sound Radio, Lloyd Spring, explains the importance of Daniel’s style; ‘With the launch of our brand new app for iPhone and Android; we wanted to give the station a complete refresh – with a new schedule and refocused music. Our new ‘Home of
Dance Music’ strapline needed a strong package in a style that our listeners would quickly relate to.’

‘It’s been a breeze working with Daniel and our voice Toni Phillips. The package sits perfectly alongside the daytime playlist and is versatile enough to complement our specialist shows – from Deep House to DnB to Trance to House; giving the station a consistent identity when the music is
niche.’

Daniel Mumford is the former Head of Production at BBC Radio 1 & 1Xtra. He now provides bespoke composition, sound design and audio branding for radio, TV and film. Recent credits include The Inbetweeners Movie 2, The World War One Centenary on the BBC and an FX package for The Capital Network.

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So far, 2014 has been very busy for ReelWorld in Europe who launched new jingles on the UK’s biggest commercial radio station Heart last month and are currently creating a new sound for Belgium’s most listened to radio station, Radio 2. And now, Spain’s Cadena 100 is the latest radio station in Europe to take advantage of ReelWorld’s ONE updating jingle service.

The iconic Madrid based station has been on air since 1992 and has a growing audience of almost 2 million listeners every day.

Cadena 100’s Deputy Group PD Kevin Palmer said: “Throughout our relationship the ReelWorld team has always been ready to go the extra kilometre to keep us happy, but this year they surpassed themselves with a great set of jingles that I’m certain will help Cadena 100 remain the número uno music station in Madrid.”

The vocals for the jingle package were recorded at ReelWorld’s European HQ at MediaCityUK with the station retaining its distinctive heritage sonic logo throughout the package. ReelWorld even created special mixes for the breakfast show.

ReelWorld ONE comes in two formats, AC and CHR, and gives stations the opportunity to select a huge starter kit of jingles at the beginning and then receive new jingle themes every month. It’s even possible to build a bespoke package of jingles from the expanding library of hundreds of themes. The updating CHR service also includes monthly updates of beat mixed intros and produced ID’s.

ReelWorld’s European Managing Director Anthony Gay said: “Kevin and the team have trusted us to support them with the on air sound of two of the group’s other music stations for a number of years now and it’s a huge thrill to hear our jingles on Cadena 100.”

Cadena 100’s sister station MegaStarFM has been using the ReelWorld ONE CHR jingle service since its launch last year along with ReelWorld’s Production Vault.

The ReelWorld ONE service is already used by major players in France, Germany, Sweden, Portugal, Norway, Poland, Romania, and the UK as well as across the USA.

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For the fifth consecutive year, Portugal’s CHR station Mega Hits has chosen Wise Buddah to compose and produce their brand new sound.

The new package was designed to reflect the evolving diversity of the station, which recently refreshed its core playlist to include artists like Ed Sheeran, Calvin Harris, David Guetta and Taylor Swift.

Nelson Cunha, Programme Director, Mega Hits – “The new Mega Hits jingle package for 2015 reflects the music variety of the station and works perfectly for the flow of the songs. And when you think, imagine and write your ideas, the Wise Buddah Production Team MAKE IT sound even better than your best dreams!”

Paul Plant, Director, Wise Buddah Jingles – “Nelson and the Team at Mega Hits made this as seamless a process as ever. It also gave us the chance to re-work the existing IDs from our NRK P3 package for the first time, and combine them with a selection of bespoke cuts. The result? Mega fusion!”

For more information, please contact phil.tozer@wisebuddah.com on 0044 207 307 7423

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After 25 years in the industry Bespoke Music is one of the UK’s established jingle and music imaging houses, composing jingles and beds for many of the radio industry’s major players, including BBC, Bauer Media, Global Radio, GMG Radio, UKRD and many more.

For the first time they are offering a unique way of creating an individual sung radio jingle package by using their online ‘Package Builder’. Now you can mix and match your own jingles to create a powerful, individual station jingle package.

You can browse and listen to the regularly updated catalogue using the ‘find a cut’ option. After that, select the style, tempo and instrumentation to help you find the perfect cut. Add your chosen tracks to the cart and ‘bespoke’ it up with your station name and lyrics. With the help of the industry’s top vocalists, your lyrics get to really sing. Tracks are then expertly mixed, mastered and then uploaded to a client account.

As this is a brand new product, Bespoke Music are offering these sung jingles for £99 each for a limited period with a free info bed package (news, weather etc) when 3 or more jingles are ordered. Visit bespokemusic.co.uk to hear whats available!

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Bauer City 2 is a network of 15 local radio stations in Scotland and northern England, owned and operated by Bauer Radio.

The stations, which carry separate localised branding, air a networked schedule of classic hits music, alongside local news and travel, specialist music programming and a weekly current affairs phone-in on Sunday mornings. The network launched on Monday 5 January 2015.

The custom created jingle package heard across the Network is produced by Bespoke Music.

Chris Ward, Group Head of Production commented: “Working with Tim and the team at Bespoke has been an absolute joy. They are world class at what they do – nothing is too much trouble and they are an absolute pleasure to work with. The package they created for us was exactly what we were looking for and it has help breathed new life into our network of heritage stations. I really can’t recommend them enough”.

The Bauer City 2 Network consists of Clyde 2 (Glasgow and the West of Scotland), Forth 2 (Edinburgh, the Lothians and Fife), Hallam 2 (South Yorkshire and the North Midlands), Key 2 (Greater Manchester), Metro Radio 2 (Tyne and Wear and Northumberland), MFR 2 (Scottish Highlands, Moray and Orkney), Northsound 2 (Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire), Radio Aire 2 (Leeds and West Yorkshire), Radio City 2 (Merseyside, Cheshire and North Wales), Rock FM 2 (Lancashire), Tay 2 (Tayside), TFM 2 (Tees Valley, County Durham and North Yorkshire), Viking 2 (East Yorkshire and South Lincolnshire) and West Sound (Ayrshire, Dumfries and Galloway).

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September marks the latest Bauer Network updates from Wise Buddah. Listeners to the Bauer City 1 Network are waking up to a fresh new sound on their local Bauer City 1 station, following the latest installment of updates with music from Wise Buddah and imaging from the Bauer City Production Team.

The new package is another custom update for Bauer and it features five brand-new beds alongside a host of production elements, including new Out Of Breaks and TOHs, all showcasing the five note sonic that Wise Buddah created in 2013.

Wise Buddah’s Production Manager Phil Tozer said: “The sound of Bauer City 1 is constantly evolving, so the Network needs imaging and sound design that facilitates that progress. Our aim is to deliver content that matches the high production values of the Network. ”

Chris Ward, Group Head of Production of the Bauer City Network added, “The team at Wise Buddah are absolutely world class and our partnership with them is awesome. They are flexible, accommodating a joy to work with and their production really shines. Rather than try and shoe horn us into a one size fits all approach they’ve helped us create a bespoke sound that’s the perfect fit for Bauer City 1.”

The new updates are on air across (take a deep breath!) CFM (Cumbria and South West Scotland), Clyde 1 (Glasgow and the West of Scotland), Forth 1 (Edinburgh, the Lothians and Fife), Hallam FM (South Yorkshire and the North Midlands), Key 103 (Greater Manchester), Metro Radio (Tyne and Wear and Northumberland), MFR (Scottish Highlands, Moray and Orkney), Northsound 1 (Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire), Radio Aire (Leeds and West Yorkshire), Radio Borders (Scottish Borders and North Northumberland), Radio City (Merseyside, Cheshire and North Wales), Rock FM (Lancashire), Tay FM (Tayside), TFM (Tees Valley, County Durham and North Yorkshire), Viking FM (East Yorkshire and South Lincolnshire) and West FM (Ayrshire)!

Devaweb have just launched their Summer Sweeper Pack Volume 2 which consists of long sweepers and 8 short ones for just £60. A bargain if I’ve ever seen one! You can hear a demo on the homepage of devaweb.co.uk.

Chris has also put up some samples of recent work he’s done for Beat FM, Scunthorpe Hospital Radio, The Alternation (Ohio) and Radio Sunderland. The Beat FM stuff is really great and I really like what he’s done with Reelworld’s beatmixes.

Head over to devaweb.co.uk now to listen to Chris’ latest material and listen to some cool resings of Bespoke Music packages.

Australia’s Nova Network has recently launched a refresh of the Nova radio brand which includes a new jingle package from ReelWorld.

The new sound is on air now across Australia and includes Top of Hour and Out of Break jingles as well as news and travel themes.

Paul Jackson, NOVA Entertainment Group Programme Director said, “To complement the new invigorated look and feel of Nova’s brand refresh we worked closely with the team at ReelWorld to deliver a jingle and utilities package with an impact and sharpness that reflects Nova’s playlist and passion for the freshest music. In a first for the network this package covers frequency specific jingle cuts tailored for all five markets nationally.”

Sydney’s Nova 96.9, Melbourne’s Nova 100, Brisbane’s Nova 106.9, Adelaide’s Nova 919 and Perth’s Nova 937 are all airing their own localised versions of the jingle themes.

Nova’s refreshed brand extends across all touch points from on-air programming, new mobile apps (including Apple Carplay) desktop, mobile sites and social platforms and across all signage, merchandise and street teams and is supported by an extensive marketing campaign including a new television commercial.

NOVA Entertainment’s new music-led TVC is designed to support Nova’s brand refresh and features a bespoke soundtrack composed by ReelWorld. The TVC is dedicated to reflecting Nova’s connection and passion for music, featuring some of the world’s biggest international and local artists.

The Nova Network reaches over 3.2 million listeners across Australia.

ReelWorld, with head offices in Seattle and a base at MediaCityUK near Manchester, also provide jingles for stations like KIIS LA, Heart UK, Z100 New York and BBC Radio 1Xtra.

To hear a demo of the new jingle package listen below or to check out more of ReelWorld’s work across the globe visit reelworld.com.

Tipp FM, County Tipperary’s local radio station, has a brand new sound courtesy of Manchester based Ignite Jingles.

Dave Harrington, Tipp FM’s Programme Controller/Head of Operations said: ‘Having recently moved to Tipp FM, top of my list was a fresh sound for the station, with a complete music policy review and a bespoke jingle and imaging package to match. With Chris and the Ignite Jingles team, I found the ideal fit. My brief was fulfilled with meticulous care and the result really is a Premier sound for Ireland’s Premier County. When you hear listeners at an OB singing your jingles you know Ignite have delivered!’

Based on Ignite’s package for The Bay, Tipp’s jingles include summer and Christmas mixes, plus sings for the breakfast show. Ignite’s founder and Creative Director, Chris Stevens, commented: “It’s an honour to have produced these jingles. We’re loving being heard across County Tipperary and beyond”.

Based in MediaCityUK, Ignite’s jingle packages are heard worldwide, from Portugal to Mexico, Dubai to Denmark. You can hear their packages at ignitejingles.com.

As part of its recent schedule change, BBC Radio 2 commissioned Wisebuddah to produce a host of new idents across the station’s output.

The Zoe Ball Breakfast Show sees four brand new Show Openers, whilst Sarah Cox has two new Openers as well as a makeover for All Request Friday. Both shows air a new shared Sports theme and have also had various music elements created by Wisebuddah for their regular features.

In addition, Wisebuddah created bespoke themes for Trevor Nelson’s Rhythm Nation and Rylan Clark-Neal’s new show ‘Rylan on Saturday’. There’s also a re-mix of the travel bed, along with a new theme for the network’s story-writing competition, 500 Words.

Paul Plant, MD of Wisebuddah Jingles: “As ever it has been a truly rewarding experience for our production team faced with the challenge of creating something from scratch for the UK’s most listened to network. The range of content and music across the station is as broad as it gets and, in this respect, makes BBC Radio 2 unique”.