All the stations are sporting super-sexy custom breakfast imaging so check back to hear those cuts online soon and look for more stations to joing the Heart Network in the coming months.
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.
Thelonius Monk is widely regarded as one of the most important musicians in jazz. He had a unique improvisational style and made numerous contributions to the standard jazz repertoire. Often considered as a founder of beboop, Monk’s playing style later evolved away from that form.
His compositions and improvisations are full of dissonant harmonies and angular melodic twists, and are impossible to separate from Monk’s unorthodox approach to the piano, which combined a highly percussive attack with abrupt, dramatic use of silences and hesitations.
Here’s a note that passed our desks entitled “Monk’s Advice” that we thought we’d share… He’s so, so right on so many levels.
Description of Thelonius Monk taken from this entry on Wikipedia.
To coincide with this year’s NAB conference, we have produced our most comprehensive and uber-stylish demo to date. IQ Beats - Music Imaging 2008 features 3 discs of nearly our entire catalogue of custom music imaging clocking in just under a staggering three hours.
In addition to a tour-de-force through 35 demos of our custom products, there is an accompanying sixteen page booklet touching on the history of IQ Beats, the sound of IQ Beats, the experience of working with IQ Beats, mini-bios for each of the players at IQ Beats, and a brief description for all 35 custom packages featured throughout the three discs.
Here is a rundown of what you will find inside of IQ Beats - Music Imaging 2008:
Disc 1
Heart Network 2 - London/UK
RMF FM - Poland
LBC 2 - London
Fun Radio 2 - Paris
Heart Network 1 - London/UK
WKTU - New York
Heart 106.2 - London
KISQ - San Francisco
Mix 102.7 - New York
Heart Breakfast - London/UK
Ben FM 1 - Philadelphia
Ben FM 2 - Philadelphia
Disc 2
Fox FM - UK
RTL - Berlin
Fun Radio 1 - Paris
96.6 TFM - UK
Chiltern FM - UK
Power 92
Power 92.5
Flow 93.5 - Toronto
UTV - UK
Century FM - UK
The Wireless Group - UK
Blink 102.7 - New York
Disc 3
LBC 1 - London
Newstalk 106 - Ireland
LBC AM/FM - London
SportsTalk 950 - Philadelphia
BBC Radio 1 Chart Show - UK
BBC Radio Manchester
BBC Radio Leeds
The Breeze - Australia
The Wolf - Seattle
KSON - San Diego
Kix 106 - Memphis
Due to an overwhelming interest in the demo, we’ve decided to make it available for sale. Please see the link in the sidebar, or click the button below for your copy.
We like to produce an annual team photo with this year being no exception. Last year we got the Matt Groening treatment a la the Simpsons. This year we took a trip down memory lane and produced a “what if” hearkening back to yearbook photos from yesteryear. Which ones do you like? Which made you laugh? Which one(s) did YOU look like?
Steven Scalfati - Creative Director, Composer, Producer, Jeans Aficianado
Patrick Napper - Composer, Producer, Flugelhornist
The RMF FM package is comprised of 20 “mini-hits” that are all 12 seconds in length or less with most being true transitions bridging different tempos.
The station is focused towards a younger leaning AC format featuring artists ranging from Madonna, Rob Thomas and Kelly Clarkson to Rod Stewart, Elton John and Phil Collins.
We saw a great opportunity for a station that takes a new, younger approach to today’s soft rock in the Philadelphia market. We are excited to offer our listeners this exciting new choice.
John Fullam - Greater Media Vice President and Market Manager
The desert has a new upstart spinning Breakbeat and Electronica with all of the yummy Pop in between and imaging themselves with a mini-suite from our rockin’ WKTU package.
Vibe 94-5 was so eager to get the new stuff on air that we were sent an aircheck featuring one of the cuts used within a mere 30 minutes after we’d submitted a mix for approval. It even had vocal production put in.
Now that’s a turnaround radio friends. At the top of the montage is said aircheck. Ch-ch-check it out.
Nova FM in Denmark tapped IQ Beats through our fruitful partnership with Music And Images to produce a comprehensive re-sing encompassing both the previous and recently launched Heart Network packages.
Having launched on September 8th, Nova was formerly known as TV2 Denmark and can be heard spinning today’s hottest music alongside Old School Classics with a slogan of “Den Bedste Musik Her Og Nu” (roughly translated to The Best Music Here and Now).
Names like Alphabeat, Szhirley, TV-2, Nordstrøm, Sanne Salomonsen, Sys Bjerre, Saybia, Outlandish, Infernal, Lizzy and Aqua will be fixed elements on the play list of Nova FM. They will, together with other strong Danish and international artists, make Nova FM the preferred radio station among Danes.
-Eric Hansen, Senior VP SBS Radio
IQ’s own Steven Scalfati even boarded a big metal bird for the Trans-Atlantic flight to Copenhagen to produce the vocal sessions locally. He had a great time while there and even scored some Esprit jeans for his troubles.
Look for an update on the blog in the near future after IQ’s Kip Beelman and Patrick Napper make the trek themselves to Copenhagen in order to produce Nova’s breakfast imaging in addition to a photo expose on Steven and his Esprit jeans collection.
Tulsa, Oklahoma’s 98.5 KVOO is the “Voice of Oklahoma” (VOO) and is playing Today’s Country Variety.
Program Director Luke Jensen rang us up and ordered a tasty selection of cuts from our JR FM package topped off with the Top of Hour from the Kix 106 package and it sounds great.
We looked all over the world for a fresh, innovative sound that would allow us to stand out in the marketplace. Once we found the IQ JR FM package, the decision was easy. The JR FM package has the contemporary feel that we were looking for, it’s different, and will help further differentiate KVOO from our competitors. There is nothing better in this business than getting a great product from a great group of people! This was the easiest, most stress free process I have ever been through!
We noticed Heart’s website had a featurette on the launch of their new imaging. Here is a link to the site’s mini-section containing a photo gallery, fun statistics about the package and even download Heart ringtones!
This little movie clip featuring photos and stats also popped up this week.
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 ‘
Thelonius Monk is widely regarded as one of the most important musicians in jazz. He had a unique improvisational style and made numerous contributions to the standard jazz repertoire. Often considered as a founder of beboop, Monk’s playing style later evolved away from that form.
To coincide with this year’s 
The desert has a new upstart spinning Breakbeat and Electronica with all of the yummy Pop in between and imaging themselves with a mini-suite from our rockin’ 
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