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Take Advantage Of These Services -
Available To All Salem Affiliates!
(Unless otherwise noted, all services are free of charge).
Aside from great Christian music programming from some
of your favorite guys and gals, here's a listing of some of the other key
features available to all Salem affiliates.
Jump to:
Music
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Daily music logs - Need to find a song
title for a listener, or need to make sure the music flow of any shifts
originating from your studios matches Salem's music flow? Get
our daily music logs! These list hour-by-hour, every single song
to be aired on the network. Access them online.
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BMI logs - Have music logging requirements
for BMI or ASCAP? Send these agencies a copy of our BMI logs.
They contain all the reporting information required by the music licensing
organizations and can be obtained online. Or, if you'd like, simply
mail us a floppy disk (in a padded envelope, please) and we'll copy the
logs you need right onto your disk.
Liners & Voicework
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Localization - If making your network
feed sound like it's originating from your own studio is important to you,
you'll be happy to know that all the current things you would (should)
normally be touching up on in any locally-originated airshifts can also
be handled through the network.
From station events, contests, programs or special guests, to weather,
traffic, news and concert calendars, we can give your listeners that "right
from your local studio" feeling. It's all creatively and expertly
handled through the myriad of free liner and voicework production available
through network staff. For complete details on each of these areas,
see some of the following items and check out Using
Network Liners.
Note that recorded station liners are available on an as-needed basis
to all affiliates from all full and part-time Salem staff.
There is no charge.
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Contest Enactments - Got a local contest
going on? Our staff is happy to pre-record contest enactments.
Some affiliates simply have the appropriate network air personality voice
a message like, "Spirit FM has Jaci Velasquez concert tickets and if you're
my 5th caller to 333-3333, you win a pair." Others write longer
scripts and leave a hole in the middle for a local voice to come in and
give winner names plus other details. No matter what your method
is, these work handily within network stopsets. There is no charge
for this service.
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Traffic, news and weather tosses - Create interaction between the on-air
personality and your local news, traffic or weather voice. Network
"tosses" do the trick! (i.e. "Today's Christian Music 103.1- I'm
Wade McShane and Jeff Andrews is here now with this morning's trivia contest
plus today's forecast").
Staff Interaction
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Bios - Want your audience to better know
the people behind the microphones? Short bios
for all full-time Salem airstaff are available online.
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Getting To Know Your Air Personalities - From time to time, affiliates
desire for listeners to know the real person who's on the air. So
they ask our air personalities to fill out short profiles with questions
ranging from "Where were you born?" to "What's your favorite ice cream
flavor?" to "What was your favorite pet?" If you ever want information
like this, our full-time air personalities always are pleased to help out.
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Weekly Briefings - Our staff updates
you on Salem events and news each Thursday via our weekly newsletter.
View it online, receive it via email or have it faxed to you.
Listener Data
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Address & phone numbers - With a couple of ongoing network contests
and occasional, bigger network promotions, we tend to accumulate the names
of lots of contest winners and registrants. From time to time, we
provide affiliates with names, addresses and phone numbers of all winners
from their region.
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Telephone tallies - Approximately once each month, Salem affiliates
are provided with tallies showing how many listener calls from their market
were made to the network in the past month. Many stations use these
tallies to demonstrate to potential advertisers the activity and size of
their listener base.
Production
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Sharathon promos - We're happy to voice these free of charge to
all stations holding Sharathons. Send us your desired 30 or 60 second
scripts, or if needed, we'll be happy to write some for you. We'll
have all full-time staff voice these for your use before, during and after
Sharathon.
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Station Image Voice - Need a Big Voice to image any of your
non-Salem programming? Whether it's an image voice for your
own morning show ("Good morning Poughkeepsie, It's the morning show with
Kip and Jan on Spirit FM") or an image voice for another programming segment
("Here's the James Dobson Family Commentary, sponsored by Arbuckle Counseling
Center and Spirit FM"), Salem air personalities can be hired to voice
these and give your station a cohesive sound. Most staff can
voice a page of 10 Image Voice elements for $25 to $75, depending on voice
talent desired. Call for exact rates.
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Commercials, Promos and Grant Announcements - Need extra voices
to use on your production? Several of our affiliates have joined
the Salem Affiliate Voice Talent Pool
which is comprised of station personnel willing to do free voicework for
another affiliate so long as that second affiliate will do free voicework
for them. Visit online for a list of participating stations and contacts.
Also, Salem full-time airstaff is available to voice your
commercials, grant announcements or other necessary promos. Most
staff members charge $$35-$85 per spot. Call for exact pricing.
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Free Promos
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New music promos - Virtually every week, we produce a promo highlighting
the new music added for the week. You can record this weekday mornings at
8:10am during the commercial feed (as time permits). You can also download
them online.
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Artist Closeups - These popular promos include artist interview
clips over a background of their popular songs. Whenever new promos
are available they're fed in the same manner as the New Music Promos above are.
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Contest promos - Again, check your regular promo feed outlets for contest
promos. These are produced for your use whenever the network does
a contest or promotion.
Additional Staffing
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Extra holiday staff available at no charge - Can't find enough
people to cover all your on-air hours over the holidays? Regardless
of how much network programming you've contracted to air, we make available,
free of charge, extra network hours so you can easily cover the major holidays.
Look for details each holiday season in your weekly network newsletter.
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Extra hours to cover ill employees - Have someone call in sick at
the last minute? Need a quick and easy way to cover their airshift?
Simply fill out a network authorization grid detailing the emergency network
hours you need, fax it to us and we'll do our absolute best to be sure
you get network audio ASAP.
Appearances
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Remotes - Need a member of your network staff to emcee a concert
or appear at other station events? Although we can't accommodate
all requests, staff members are often available to appear for $550 per
day plus expenses (travel, food, lodging). Call for availabilities.
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On-Air Sharathon Workers - Several of our air personalities come
from non-commercial backgrounds and bring a wealth of Sharathon experience.
They're frequently available to work with you during your Sharathon.
Cost is $550 per day plus expenses (travel, food, lodging). Call
for availabilities.
Photos
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Staff photo prints - Need printed photos of full-time airstaff?
Snapshots of most full-time staff are available at no charge. 8x10s
can be made available at our cost (about $7 each).
Artist Interaction
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Artist visits - Salem
broadcasts live from the Christian music capital of the world, and as such,
normally has one to two artists drop by the on-air studios every single
week. They're by far one of the most popular listener events on the
air. To be sure you get in on these, air Salem mid-days!
Free Online Support
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Just about all forms, information, documents, logs - just about anything
you can think of for that matter - can be found online.
Online Audio Services!
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Music Singles Service - Having a tough time getting new singles
shipped to you from the record labels? Forget the aggravating delays.
As a Salem affiliate, you can now download
new singles when you want them - right from the Salem web site.
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Commercial and promo bulk feeds via Internet - Missed this week's
feeds? All weekly commercial
and
promo
feeds are online, meaning you can access them any time you want to
- not just when they're sent down the standard closed circuit feed.
