Your audio workstation has a new homepage. Essential Radio is an all-purpose, multi-format online production music library designed specifically to meet the demanding needs of today's radio production professionals. Fast, easily searchable, customizable and with thousands of tracks, sound effects and sweepers available in every conceivable style, Essential Radio is the spot-builders dream audio toolkit.

Essential Nabs the All Star Production Library. Essential Radio has added the acclaimed All Star Production Music Library to its extensive lineup. All Star features such pedigreed musicians as: Earl Slick, David Bowie's guitarist since 1976; Waddy Wachtel, co-composer of Excitable Boy and many other collaborations with Jackson Browne, James Taylor, Warren Zevon and scores of others; Mark Plati, David Bowie's bassist and musical director since 1999; Eric Darken, Nashville's #1 call for percussion; a disc by the "Maniac" himself, Michael Sembello; a blues disc by world-renowned guitarist, Harvey "The Snake" Mandel. These are but a few of the All-Star discs which will be available for download by current and future Essential Radio affiliates

Essential Radio is one of the most comprehensive music library websites available:

• Thousands upon thousands of tracks, every format and style under the sun as well as thousands of sound effects and imaging sweepers - it's the perfect spot-building, all-purpose library;
• Fast, comprehensive searches and completely cross-referenced;
• Tracks are downloadable individually or entire discs are available as one-click zip file downloads;
• The powerful Project Library lets you save or bookmark tracks in your own private database. You can add your own searchable keywords to tracks, as well as organize them in your own folders and categories;
• Flash preview feature for instant audio playback;
• A new, advanced audio player that keeps pace with you as you scroll through the listings and retains the tracks you've previewed - and lets you download them from within the player as well as the listings;
• Enormous updates - over 100 discs scheduled to be released in 2009 alone;
• Great selection of holiday, special event and Christmas material;
• All tracks in highest-resolution 320kps MP3.

Here are just some of the categories of music available in Essential Radio:

Americana Big Band (Swing) Blues Christmas and Holidays Classical Club Comedy Country, including: Bluegrass Honkytonk Light Country Rockabilly Traditional Zydeco Dancehall/Ragga Disco

Funk International Intros and Bridges Jazz/Smooth Jazz Kitsch Latin Light Movies and TV News, Talk, Sports Novelty Oldies/60s and 70s Pop R&B Reggae/Ska Retail Rhythms and Drums

Rock, incuding: Alternative Rock Classic Rock Garage Rock Punk Southern Rock Soft Rock Southern Rock Metal Hard Rock Solo Instruments Sound Effects Sweepers Techno Urban/Hip-Hop World

Check out our interactive category demo here to sample some of Essential Radio's variety.

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Essential Radio : Their name truly says it all.  In producing many spots and imaging for Clear Channel stations, I need the best beds and fast.  Essential Radio allows me to navigate and sample very quickly unlike any other on-line music library.   Regardless of what kind of a project I am working on, I can always turn to Essential radio for all of my music bed needs!  You want music variety, they got it. Plus- tons of updates!

Chad Erickson
Clear Channel Radio Hartford, CT

I've used most of the "other" production libraries designed for radio production on not one of them comes close to the depth of styles and genres that are available online with ER. You guys have a winner with Essential Radio.

Rob Walker, Clear Channel Radio

IT'S THE BEST THING TO HAPPEN TO RADIO PRODUCTION SINCE MARCONI! All production wizards need this tool in their bags... effortless transition of music into your production room from your computer. All the cuts, all the sounders... everything right at your fingertips... I've almost forgotten I have CDs in the studio anymore!

Steve Hilton, Production Director
Grace Broadcasting Services

Talk about easy! No more flippin' around thru catalogs... just search, download, drop and drag and you're done! It really has been great to work with!

Brian Whitaker, Des Moines Radio Group

It's a great resource. The search tools dramatically decrease the time spent searching for the right music or sound effect. Overall, it's one of the most complete and easily referenced library we own.

Ray Ripple, Clear Channel Radio, Syracause

Essential Radio is top-notch. Visually, I can't imaging a cleaner and more organized look to displaying countless discs, tracks and sound fx. And the search function is amazing! We have never had an easier time locating sound fx or music tracks. Production time has cut down across the board and having Essential Radio has been the reason.

Jon Liebl, Central Iowa Broadcasting, Inc.

It's great, true workhorse in our prod rooms. The ability to type in a specific style search word is a godsend, saves so much time and is precise. And many on the staff here love the folders feature, (they can) save their cuts in their folders for easy retrieval. Essential Radio gets a big thumbs up!

Paul Mize Clear Channel Sandusky Ohio

What a great website. As a production manager for 4 different radio stations, this makes the music and SFX part of my job extremely easy. I'm in heaven, man!!

Marty Scala, Radio Central Coast

I was turned on to the Essential Radio website over a month ago and the first thing I noticed was how easy it was to navigate. I can find just what I'm looking for including genre, "sound alikes" and timed beds with ease. Not only that the website's extensive library provides me with enough production pieces so that I don't have any "duplication" beds giving my clients the perfect opportunity to "brand" themselves with just the right one to suit their needs. Thanks Essential Radio for making my life a little less stressful!

Jon "Rocko" Donofrio
KTUN "The Eagle" Vail, Colorado

Essential Radio is a service of Premiere Radio Networks and is available to qualifying radio stations in the United States on a barter basis. For more information or to set up a trial membership, please call Premiere Radio Affiliate Relations at 818-377-5300.

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