10 Most Wanted is a syndicated radio show with a difference.
Every night, Gav Richards plays the most requested hit songs and catches up on the latest entertainment news.
The show incorporates regular station namechecks, local idents, and full bespoke links recorded each week, so it always sounds at home.
Get in touch if you're interested in carrying the show on your station or have questions.
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Gav was previously heard on the UK's Galaxy and Bauer networks.
He is also co-founder and CTO of Aiir, working with radio stations internationally to power their websites, mobile apps and studio interactivity.
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The show is fully customised to fit each station, with local idents throughout, spoken references to the station name and slogan, and fully bespoke links included seamlessly.
This is possible because of how it is produced, distributed and played using "SmartVT", an innovative new voice-tracking platform.
Unlike other syndicated shows, 10 Most Wanted is not provided as flat audio files that you drop in to your playout system. Instead, you run the SmartVT app alongside your playout system, and the app takes care of downloading the show automatically and playing it at the scheduled time.
Every element of the show is played independently, locally on your machine. This means a separate version of the show does not have to be mixed down for your station, instead you'll receive the correct localised elements and they are played in the required sequence. These elements are cached, so anything that doesn't change from show to show (e.g. certain songs or parts of links) won't need to be downloaded again.
An important benefit of this approach for stations is that SmartVT can be configured to send information about the current playing track to wherever you require, for example to appear on your website and mobile app. Ultimately, the show shouldn't stand out as behaving different to any locally produced show.
For commercial breaks, SmartVT supports sending and receiving commands via TCP to your playout system, if it supports this. Alternatively you can automate based on the fixed length of each segment of the show, with SmartVT leaving silence while your system takes over.
Get in touch if you're interested in carrying the show on your station or have questions.