As CFRB Newstalk 1010 is Toronto’s oldest broadcaster, Program Director Mike Bendixon was looking for a sound to maintain the heritage of the station while moving the sound forward.  This was to be accomplished while eschewing a typical four-on-the-floor and electronic-leaning news package.  Hmmmm… Who to call?

IQ composer Patrick Napper has just returned from Toronto and is proud to announce that our friends at Newstalk 1010 have begun airing our new bespoke News/Talk package and it’s sounding great on air!  Here are a few pics of Patrick haunting the Newstalk 1010 offices in Midtown on St. Clair Avenue…

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The package is comprised of 9 themes touching on the main topics needed for the News/Talk format:  News, Traffic, Weather, Sports, Breaking News, Morning Drive, Afternoon Drive, Business and Entertainment.

Par usual with any IQ Beats package, each main theme is broken down and supplied with a bunch of mixouts to give editors and producers maximum flexibility with the package.  Mixes found are:  Fulls, Beds with 3 thinner versions, Front Stagers, two End Tags per theme, two detached logo versions per theme and a mix of drums-only alongside the same thing, but with effects.  Plenty of tools to keep Newstalk 1010 sounding fresh and will-imaged for a long, long time to come.

Check out each of the demo, each main themes below or audition the entire package here at IQ Beats.com

CFRB – Newstalk 1010 Demo

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News

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Traffic

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Weather

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Breaking News

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Morning Drive

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Afternoon Drive

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Sports

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Business

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Entertainment

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We just got sent a funny piece of audio from PG of The Peter Gordon Breakfast Show on 96.4 Eagle Radio in Surrey and Hampshire, UK.  It appears as if PG and fellow presenter Posh Al were talking about 16 September, or “Stay Away From Seattle Day” as it’s known outside the hometown of IQ Beats.

Posh Al was postulating that perhaps it was due to the dreadful weather when PG acknowledges that if it weren’t for Seattle (and IQ Beats), his great breakfast imaging simply would not exist.

Not a lot of meat to this… Just a funny Friday post to brighten your day.  Have a great weekend!

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KUPL + new ownership = New jingles!  Today Portland’s KUPL begins to air their very own version of our KSON package throughout Greater-Portland, Oregon and the surrounding Willamette Valley.

The themes from this package are uniquely mixed out into guitar-driven versions, traditional Country inspired versions featuring dobro, mandolin or pedal steel, and thinner acoustic guitar-led versions.   The 10 music themes are rounded out with a morning cut for KUPL’s Lee and Alana as well as a weather cut lifted from our JR FM package.

Y’all know we got love for the KWJJ as their airing our 100.7 The Wolf package and now KUPL are part of the family.  Daddy can’t pick favorites but can be proud that both are sounding as great on-air with awesome jingles.

Click here to head to the main site and hear each cut individually or have a little listen to a montage of elements from the package below.

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On this the 7th Day of September we are thrilled to announce a major new project we have been developing with the Heart Network. If you are a regular follower of this blog you’ll know that there are now 33 Heart stations in the UK all sporting our custom Heart Network Music Imaging package which can be found here.

We work closely with the talented team at Global Radio on a variety of projects and one of the major things we have in common with the guys over the pond is the desire to keep the music fresh and up to date and this can be heard in our re-image of Heart Breakfast today.

From this morning all Heart stations are running new breakfast music themes and new versions of our light-hearted breakfast songs. The cuts break down into a variety of different elements, top of hour cuts, out of break IDs, ramps and promo beds. Each site has the name of it’s host or hosts sung on both cuts and as you can imagine this has been a major job!

Have a listen to a variety of the cuts and sings for the main anthems…

Theme 1 – Brasso

TOH Donuts

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Promo Donuts

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Ramps

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Shotguns

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Theme 2 – La Proof

TOH Donuts

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Promo Donuts

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Ramps

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Shotguns

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and the new Comedy Song

Alarm Clock

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Autumn

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Best Show

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Eat Bad

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First Hour

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Pregnant

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Rocket

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School Run

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This morning at 6am GMT nine more stations in the Global Radio portfolio re-branded to Heart, completing the roll out of the brand to 33 of their broadcasting areas. This is tremendously exciting for all of us at IQ Beats and quite an accomplishment for both the Heart brand and Global Radio.

We have been working on the imaging package that has been deployed across the brand since April last year with updates at regular intervals since.  Whew!

In case you don’t know what this is all about, here is a link to the custom Heart package from 2008 that is the foundation aligning all the stations in the network to feature one music imaging identity.

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It got us wondering about the individual IQ breakfast packages that all Heart stations are now running. We have now re-sung our breakfast anthems for Heart 33 times. That is 33 sets of presenters for 33 local breakfast shows… Quite an achievement.  Here is just a small sampling:

Breakfast Anthem 1 montage

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Breakfast Anthem 2 montage

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Finally, we are also thrilled that IQ Beats music imaging has been used in the brand new Heart TV commercial rolling out across the UK from this weekend. The use of one of our Heart music themes really shows the strength and versatility of the package to perform exquisitely on both radio and TV.

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Many thanks to everybody at Global Radio that we have worked so closely with over the past few months on the Heart project.  Keep checking back for updates to our continuously growing Heart Network imaging package or simply contact us to get a version of your own!

As Wimbledon (the greatest tournament in tennis) gets fired up, so does 5 Live with a brand new custom imaging piece from IQ Beats to compliment and showcase their coverage.  Following shortly behind is a bespoke theme for the 2011 Rugby World Cup qualifier matches soon to be captivating the interest of UK rugby fans.  Also coming soon are a theme for horse racing and an interactive bed.

In looking back we’ve realized that we forgot to share a theme produced last year for 5 Live’s “Life’s Not Rehearsed” segment featuring presenters talking about their most memorable moments in live commentary.  Check out the past and present themes below and check back soon for more.

Wimbledon

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Life’s Not Rehearsed – Promo 1

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Life’s Not Rehearsed – Promo 2

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As well as gearing up for the launch of the next set of Heart stations around the UK, our friends at Global Radio have been busy launching a brand new show presented by former Spice Girl Emma Bunton (who I had a major crush on).

Emma has joined Heart to present the Friday drivetime slot in London and a new music-based show on all the Heart stations in the network on Saturday afternoons.  Check out a Q&A with Emma on Heart’s website here.

We were thrilled when given the challenge to create a little extra IQ sparkle for Emma with a quick turnaround of just a few days. The whole team pulled together to create a piece of work we are all very proud of – A brand new theme that has the flavor of Heart with a touch of Spice Girls retro.  Spice up your life!

Check out the main ramp mix below or head to IQ Beats.com and check out all the mix-outs here.

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Our pals over at the always-growing Heart Network have begun to air some new additions to our 2008 Heart Network jingle package.  There are two new cuts for their Chilled Sunday imaging and two for Feelgood Friday.  In addition, we dressed up some of the previous cuts from the package to round out the pieces for Chilled Sunday.  Ch-Ch Check ‘em out…

Chilled Sunday 1

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Chilled Sunday 1

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Feelgood Friday 1

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Feelgood Friday 2

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And here are a couple of short versions of cuts from previous packages to get the Chilled Sunday love and a Club Classics…

Get Down

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Groove

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Chill Out – From the 2006 Heart Network package

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Fitz, Mary and Tony of Seattle’s 100.7 The Wolf have just received two smokin’ new “Fitz in the Morning” themes to go alongside their already smoking jingle package we created for KKWF some time ago.

Each of the two jingles are delivered in ramp, stager and shotgun form with :60 loopable beds in both full instrumentation and thinner form.  Hoooooowwwwl!

Check out the new themes below or hear all the new morning show pieces with the rest of the package ruling Seattle’s airwaves here.

Blast It! ramp

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Knucklehead ramp

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The team at IQ Beats are thrilled to announce the arrival of our new custom music imaging package for Global Radio’s classic hits network ‘Gold‘

Working directly from the brief of Director of Broadcasting Richard Park, our composers have created a set of material that truly reflects the timeless hits that are heard on Gold every day

The package consists of 7 themes anchoring Gold’s playlist and a top of hour news and travel sequence. Our Gold package is just right for imaging the greatest hits from the 60′s, 70′s, 80′s and today with artists like:  The Stones, David Bowie, The Who, Madonna, The Beatles, U2, Aretha Franklin and the Doors.

Head to the main site to hear the package cut by cut here, or check out the demo below.

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