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Happy Thanksgiving From CMC Neptune!

From our CMC Neptune family to yours, we wish you a very Happy Thanksgiving!

Give Thanks For Additional Revenue Streams

If you’re looking to generate revenue for your venue, our Revenue Development team is here to help! Local businesses can purchase ad spots on your Radio station, at no additional cost to you! Don’t forget, if you purchased Level 1 you have 2 commercials per hour to...

Holiday Music For Your Station

It’s hard to believe, but the Holiday Season is here! Adding Holiday music into your music mix is easy. The easiest way to access Holiday Music is directly from your player in On Demand Mode. Simply go to the Specialty Categories section and expand the Holiday Music...

Don’t Forget To Set Your New Hours For The Holidays

Holiday hours are Here! Don’t forget to set new hours for your venue in Voyager. If you have any questions or run into any issues, please contact your Partner Success Manager.

Give Thanks For Generating Revenue For Your Athletic Department

Your Neptune GameTime station is a great way to earn money by selling ads and sponsorships. You can schedule a meeting with our Revenue Development Specialist, Katie Spitzer, by clicking HERE. She will be happy to help you and provide a customized toolkit that...

Get Your Music Selected For Winter Sports

Get ready for winter sports because they are here! Make sure your music and messaging are ready to amp up those upcoming game days. If you have any questions, or come across any issues while updating your messaging or music, please reach out to your PSM for...

Happy Thanksgiving From CMC Neptune!

Add Holiday Music To Your Music Mix

It’s hard to believe, but the Holiday Season is here. Adding Holiday music into your music mix is easy! The easiest way to access Holiday Music is directly from your player in On Demand. Simply go to the Specialty Categories section and expand the Holiday Music...

IMPORTANT: We Have Revised Our Data Specs For Your Neptune Radio Player!

As our software and music library continue to grow in order to enhance the atmosphere at your venue, we have made necessary updates to our data specifications to ensure the best performance for your player. Please be aware that we no longer recommend using Android...

IMPORTANT: We Have Revised Our Data Specs For Your GameTime Player!

As our software and music library continue to grow in order to enhance the atmosphere at your sporting events, we have made necessary updates to our data specifications to ensure the best performance for your player. Please be aware that we no longer recommend using...

Access Our “Getting The Most Out Of Your GameTime Station” Handout

We want you to have the best GameTime experience possible, so we've put together this list of "helpful hints" based on feedback from thousands of partners like you! To access this handout, please click the image above or HERE.

Let’s Talk About Music: Why 70% Of Today’s Popular Music Doesn’t Make The Cut

The feedback we receive in our annual survey is invaluable to us. Every year, we take what our partners say seriously, and constantly look for ways to improve our product based on that feedback in order to provide our partners the best possible GameTime experience....

Prepare Your Team Leaders For Greatness This Fall

All too often we hear, “We don’t have any leaders anymore”, but the real question is: What are you doing to create them? For years, Proactive Coaching has been helping high schools and colleges develop their next generation of student leaders in the fields of...

Customize Your Music Mix

With SchoolZone you can always create a custom mix wherever you want.

Songs You Can Trust

With SchoolZone, you'll never have to worry about what’s playing over your station because we have a team of music screeners to ensure that every one of the 37,000+ songs in our database is 100% guaranteed family-friendly and lyric-safe.

Music Where You Need It

SchoolZone not only gives you the ability to select whatever music mix you want, but you can also vary that mix by the time of day, day of the week, or however else you’d like! Use your station to play wake-up morning hallway music, calm-down lunchroom toons, or even...

Don’t Put Off Connecting Your Player To The Internet!

You don’t want to put off connecting your player to the internet until opening day! Your Neptune Radio player will need time to download all of your updated messaging for your new season. Waiting until opening day to connect your player to the internet may take a...

Summer Is Right Around The Corner! Are You Ready?

Summer is right around the corner! And with the warmer weather often comes new operating hours and announcements. Now is a great time to review your music mixes and messages in Voyager and make any necessary adjustments so that you’re ready to go for the Summer rush!

Hiring Seasonal Employees? Let us help!

If you haven’t already, you’re probably about to start hiring seasonal employees for the summer. We’ve been seeing too many concerning stories in the news about an employee who made a bad decision online or posted something inappropriate on social media. In the end,...

Music Notes

As the calendar pages keep turning, think of fun things you can do with the music in your facility to mix it up and have some fun. How about at theme week or even a special themed daypart? We can help! You can use the music request page and pick a category, like...

Educate Your Seasonal Employees. Protect Your Business.

Have You Updated Your Base Messages?

As we come into the spring season, many of our Neptune Radio partners will have modified operating hours and/or the need to update Base Messages. If your operating hours are changing with the season, please be sure to update them in Voyager. And if you are playing...

February is the Last Month To Get 10% Off Of July 15 Renewals

If your GameTime subscription is set to renew on July 15, February is your last month to receive a 10% renewal discount. Make sure you renew and pay before the end of February! If for any reason, you haven’t received your renewal invoice or have misplaced it, please...

Set Your Athletes Up For Success With Neptune Navigate

We’ve been seeing a lot of concerning articles about student athletes making poor decisions online. Unfortunately, this could not only impact their future as a credible athlete, it could also have a negative impact on your athletic program. Your student athletes are...

Introducing Ernest Jarju, Assistant Business Manager

CMC-Neptune continues to grow thanks to great partners like you. We’ve recently added an Assistant Business Manager, Ernest Jarju, and you may be hearing from him. Ernest will be assisting Brandi Maxson, our Business Manager, on answering any questions you might have...

2021 Music Recap for Neptune Radio

We screen a LOT of music every year, so that allows us to keep a good pulse on what is happening in the music world. Here are some of the trends we observed this past year. Probably the biggest trend in music we saw this year, started a while back but really picked up...

2021 Music Recap for Neptune GameTime

Take Our Annual Neptune Radio Survey for a Chance Win a $100 Gift Card

Each year, we ask our valued partners to provide us feedback on how we are doing and to offer suggestions on how we can improve our products and services. By participating in this brief survey, you will be entered into a drawing to receive a $100 gift card! We really...

Take Our Annual GameTime Survey for a Chance Win a $100 Gift Card

It’s Never Too Early To Save Money!

Each year, we offer our GameTime partners the opportunity to save up to 10% on their annual subscription by paying early. To assist in planning for this, we are sending out some invoices starting this week. GameTime partners whose annual subscription renews on July...

A New Way To Select Holiday Music for Neptune Radio

The Holiday season is here! And we are introducing a new feature in Voyager that makes it easier than ever to add Holiday music to your Neptune Radio station! In the Choose Your Music Mix section of Voyager, there is now a selection of Holiday Genres for you to choose...

A New Way To Select Holiday Music for GameTime

The Holiday season is here! And we are introducing a new feature in Voyager that makes it easier than ever to add Holiday music to your GameTime station! In the Choose Your Music Mix section of Voyager, there is now a selection of Holiday Genres for you to choose from...

Refer a Friend to Neptune, Get a $100 Gift Card

Our Refer A Friend program makes it quick and easy for you to refer Neptune Radio to other organizations AND you get a $100 Amazon Gift Card if they buy! From your Voyager home page, simply click the green “Refer A Friend” button located at the top right side of the...

You Can Now Make Neptune Radio Payment Via ACH

We’re making it even easier to renew your annual subscription service to Neptune Radio by now accepting ACH. If you are interested in taking advantage of this quick, convenient way to make a payment, please have your finance office contact Brandi Maxson, our Business...

Helping to Recruit Officials for High School Sports

We are all aware of the severe nation-wide shortage of officials across high school sports, and GameTime is partnering with the NFHS to run a public service announcement to recruit new officials. We will be rotating through two versions of a PSA to recruit new...

Refer A Friend, Get a $100 Gift Card

Our Refer A Friend program makes it quick and easy for you to refer GameTime to other schools AND you get a $100 Amazon Gift Card if they buy! From your Voyager home page, simply click the green “Refer A Friend” button located at the top right side of the page. Then...

You Can Now Make Payment Via ACH

We’re making it even easier to renew your annual subscription service to GameTime by now accepting ACH. If you are interested in taking advantage of this quick, convenient way to make a payment, please have your finance office contact Brandi Maxson, our Business...

Your Neptune Radio Station and Internet Connectivity

One of the great features of your Neptune Radio station is that you do not need to be connected to the internet during playback. However, it IS very important to connect your station to the internet every 2-3 days. Why? We are not only continuously updating our music...

Time To Review Your Messages for Fall

A change of seasons often means a change in messages, so now is a good time to review your DJ Base Messages. To review your current messages, simply go to your Voyager homepage and click on the DJ Base Messages button. Scroll to the bottom of the page and you will see...

Refer Neptune Radio: If They Buy, You Get a $100 Amazon Gift Card!

Refer A Friend: If They Buy, You Get a $100 Amazon Gift Card!

Get Your GameTime Station Ready for Winter Sports

It’s hard to believe, but it’s already time to start thinking about Winter Sports. So that means it’s time to get those schedules submitted, or better yet, program your events directly from your Neptune Media Player! Programming your Winter Sports schedule directly on...

Note: A Custom Library is NOT a Playlist

We’ve had several GameTime partners ask about continuous play from an On Demand Custom Library, so we would like to clarify the difference between an On Demand Custom Library and an On Demand Playlist. An On Demand Custom Library allows you to organize your preferred...

Important Reminder About Game Broadcasts and Neptune GameTime

Neptune GameTime is a licensed background music provider with BMI, SESAC, ASCAP, and GMR. This means that the music played via your GameTime station is fully covered for the venue in which your event is taking place. This license does NOT extend to any event...

Save Time By Using The Music Library Search Feature in Voyager

With Fall comes lots of new music requests, and the fastest way to add music to your Neptune Radio station is to use the Music Library search function. Click on the Music Selection button and then the “Add or Change Music Selection” at the top of the page in the...

Save Time By Using The Music Library Search Feature

With Fall comes lots of new music requests, and the fastest way to add music to your GameTime station is to use the Music Library search function. Click on the Music Selection button and then the “Add or Change Music Selection” at the top of the page in the Choose...

Make Sure Your Voyager Account Has Authorized Users Only

We’ve recently experienced situations in which parents, students, or staff members who are not listed on a partner’s account have reached out to us with questions regarding music or playlists. Please note that we cannot respond to inquiries from anyone who is not...

Online Training for Seasonal Employees

Neptune Navigate for Business features a series of online lessons designed to help keep your employees, and your company, safe and secure in the digital world. It now also features a special lesson designed specifically for seasonal employees. Seasonal employees tend...

Check Those Messages For End-of-Summer/Fall

It’s hard to believe, but Summer is drawing to a close. As the transition to Fall begins, many of our Neptune Radio partners will have modified operating hours and/or the need to update Base Messages. If your operating hours are changing with the season, please be...

Fall Music Ready When You Want It

With Fall upon us you might be having a special event for which you need specific music. Say you’re having an Oktoberfest and you want Polka music. Or you want Halloween music We have you covered. While these and other special categories do not appear on your music...