POWER 98 is a program designed to aid broadcasting radio stations on air and in post production.

It is a full feature program in the sense that it has most features that you (as a radio station) may require.
The idea first came when I was a DJ back in 1992. Ads at that time where recorded on tapes and were played one tape after the other. That was a hassle for the DJ because at times the tape recorder would not read the tape properly, at other times, the DJ could miss an ad or misplace it on air. Further, the quality was awful.
In addition to the said above, the DJ used to have CDs with the radio station jingles and others with his own jingles. So that meant working with a CD player to broadcast jingles.
Not only that was a problem, the manager of the station used to keep piles of papers for the schedule of the ads and their cost along with many other related paper work.
I was back then a computer science student. A friend of mine (Robert Sayegh) and I started designing and writing a program that would do all of these function. We succeeded and called it POWER STATION. It was a hell of a program at the time. We added also a database for the songs, their location, their number and related info.
The program however, lacked functionality, interface, ease of use and other nuts and bolts. In October 1998, I started, from the ground up, designing and coding POWER 98. To my expectation, it came out fabulous.

What POWER 98 can do and what features it has are listed below:

1    It can play ads with a 0.6 sec mix. In other words, there is no empty space between ads. You control how ads are played on air by adjusting the silence in the beginning of the ad or at the end.

2    It has 15 sets of 36 jingles for each DJ, easily accessible through the keyboard or by using the mouse.

3    It has a search function for songs available at the station along with the info of the last time the song was played and whether you are allowed to play it or not.

4    When you find a song you can play it from the program if the management has put it in the computer.

5    Two songs can be played at the same time (mixed, cut, or faded).

6    Jingles can be played at the same time as songs are playing or ads are playing (It's up to you to decide what you want to do).

7    The program is password protected. Each user has a login name and password.

8    The program logs all DJs logins and can calculate their salaries.

9    A special advanced search screen, for songs, is available.

10   DJs don't have to worry about selecting an ad spot by selecting the time and date of the spot. The program takes care of that and prompts the DJ to press on ENTER or click on the play button for the ads. The ad retrieval function is automatic.

11   A special program comes with POWER 98 for you to schedule your ads.

12   A second program was written for you to enter the songs, jingles, cuts, etc. for your library.

13   A program called NIGHT PLAY, part of POWER 98, helps you write lists of songs to be played sequentially or randomly with the ability to choose the mix time of the songs or the fade in and out intervals for two consecutive songs.

14   NIGHT PLAY allows you to play jingles within songs.

15   With NIGHT PLAY you can mix two songs or stop a playing song at three different intervals that the program chooses from at random.

16   A utility screen is designed to help you create users (DJs, broadcasters, ...) and specify the privelages of each (which parts of the program are they allowed to use, etc.).

17   You can divide your ads by segments, customers, agencies, and assign prices, free ads per X number of ads, and other functionality.

For an exhaustive list of features you will have to read through the help file one topic at a time, or you can contact me.