You wouldn't build your own version of Scott Studios
Our Audio Vault or Prophet.
It's to silly to think about.
Even if databases are free. And hardware is cheap. And even if you could do it perfectly technically, why?
Your're talking about putting the blood of your station into untested veins with hidden costs ...and downtime.
More importantly, it's what comes OUT of your studio automation system that defines your station.
Your music, your shows, your promotions and yes, your advertising. The content and the packaging where you should spend your time, the submission and storage of that content isn't something to be re-invented.
It's the same with your online and mobile properties. To build a web CMS from open source requires the definition hundreds of needs, work flow paths, permission structures, rent/buy hardware, firewalls, short codes, and staff to create and do them. Then the coding starts on your "free" project.
It's a lot of cost before a single content bell hits a P1's computer or before a contest whistle hits a listener's iphone.
Don't get bogged down in time and effort making/customizing a web CMS your listeners never see. Work on content listeners can experience and that you can SELL.
There is no "pride of ownership" benefit in a CMS to your station. And certainly no added revenue.
Use the best web CMS for radio. Leave the front end flash bells and jquery whistles to your in house developer to make from XML output, where it counts.
You wouldn't build your own version of Scott Studios or Audio Vault or Prophet.
It's to silly to think about.
Even if databases are free. And hardware is cheap. And even if you could do it perfectly technically, why?
You're talking about putting the blood of your station into untested veins with hidden costs ...and downtime.
More importantly, it's what comes OUT of your studio automation system that defines your station.
Your music, your shows, your promotions and yes, your advertising. The content and the packaging where you should spend your time, the submission and storage of that content isn't something to be re-invented.
It's the same with your online and mobile properties. To build a web CMS from open source requires the definition hundreds of needs, work flow paths, permission structures, rent/buy hardware, firewalls, short codes, and staff to create and do them. Then the coding starts on your "free" project.
It's a lot of cost before a single content bell hits a P1's computer or before a contest whistle hits a listener iPhone.
Don't get bogged down in time and effort making/customizing a web CMS your listeners never see. Work on content listeners can experience and that you can sell.
There is no "pride of ownership" benefit in a CMS to your station. And certainly no added revenue.
Use the best web CMS for radio. Leave the front end flash bells and jquery whistles to your in-house developer to make from XML output, where it counts.
