Each spring the Public Radio Exchange releases the results of the “mostiest” stations, producers, and listeners for the previous calendar year. It’s like a zeitgeist — only funkier! And once again many of our clients won ‘prestigeous’ Zeitfunk Awards!

For the second year in a row, The Vinyl Cafe was the Most Licensed Series, and Most Licensed Group.

The highly popular Canadian program hosted by master storyteller Stuart McLean has been steadily gaining carriage in the states and is now heard on over 100 stations across the U.S.

Fred Flaxman, the creator, writer, producer, editor and host of the classical music series Compact Discoveries was the 2nd most licensed producer for the year.

Aaron Schwartz’s one-hour documentary special, Chasing the Crescent Moon: The Story of Dr. Frempong and Sickle Cell Disease, an inspiring story of one physician and the lives he has touched, was the Most Licensed Youth-Produced Piece for the second year in a row.

Congratulations to all of our winners!

LiveHopeLove, produced by Stephanie Guyer-Stevens, has won a 2010 Gracie Award for Outstanding Documentary – Public.

Read more about Stephanie’s win here.

LiveHopeLove is a one hour special that looks at the universal problems faced by people with HIV/AIDS, through the specific lens of Jamaica, where almost no one is unaffected by the disease. What are the unique realities of this small island nation that set its HIV/AIDS sufferers apart from those in the rest of the world? Poet and writer Kwame Dawes travels to Jamaica to explore the experience of people living with HIV/AIDS and to examine how the disease has shaped their lives. Dawes’ poems, inspired by their stories, take this documentary into deep realms of the heart.

Congratulations to both of our amazing & talented clients for winning a Gracie!

Janelle Haskell, Producer of AARP’s Prime Time Radio, has won a 2010 Gracie Award for Outstanding Producer – Entertainment.

The Gracie Awards celebrate and honor programming created for women, by women, and about women, as well as individuals who have made exemplary contributions in electronic media and affiliates. Presented annually, the Gracie Awards recognize national, local and student works.

The 2010 Gracies Awards Celebration will be held on May 25-26, 2010 in Los Angeles.  The Gracie Awards ceremony is presented by the American Women in Radio and Television.

Robert De Niro and Jeff Bridges at 2010 Movies for Grownups Awards

2010 Movies for Grownups® Awards

It’s award season here in Hollywood and AARP The Magazine has announced its annual Movies for Grownups Awards® .

Movies for Grownups® is a regular feature in AARP’s Prime Time Radio program heard on over 200 public radio stations across the US. AARP The Magazine Entertainment editor Bill Newcott hosts the two minute feature that focuses exclusively on films created by and for the 50+ demographic. “Movies For Grownups” previews upcoming movies, reviews current theatrical and home video releases, and interviews filmmakers whose work reflects the hopes, dreams, and experience of this too-often forgotten age group.

La Chaise d'Or trophy (Golden Chair)

Clint Eastwood’s film Invictus, starring Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon was named the Best Movie for Grownups.  Helen Mirren took the Best Actress 50+ award for her work on The Last Station, and Jeff Bridges was named Best Actor 50+ for his portrayal of the booze-soaked county singer Bad Blake in Crazy Heart.  The Readers’ Choice award went to Sandra Bullock’s feel-good flick, The Blind Side.  Robert De Niro received the Lifetime Achievement Award.  Among the other categories are Best Intergenerational Film, Best Buddy Movie, and Breakthrough Accomplishment.

Complete list of awards and photos from the event –

http://www.aarpmagazine.org/entertainment/movies_for_grownups_2010awards/

Movies for Grownups® is also available as a podcast -

http://www.aarp.org/aarp/broadcast/aarp_radio/AARP_Radio_Podcasts/

Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature won a Gold World Medal for Environmental Program at the 2009 New York Festivals Awards for the program “Justice or “Just Us”: Environmental Justice as a Universal Human Right“.

For 52 years the New York Festivals Radio Programming and Promotions Awards has recognized The World’s Best Work in radio broadcasting.

Each year they receive entries from radio stations, networks and independent producers from over 30 countries. International radio experts from stations and companies donate their time to the judging process. The GrandJury™ is comprised of top level industry professionals from 5 continents and over 25 countries.

Bioneers brings bold innovators with breakthrough solutions to the airwaves with our eighth annual radio series. Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature airs in more than 250 cities in the U.S., Canada, Australia and Ireland and is free to all stations, distributed by WFMT Radio Network.

Also, two of our SPECIALS were recognized:

• PRISONS IN CRISIS: A STATE OF EMERGENCY IN CALIFORNIA was a finalist for Social Issues/Current Events
• Coming Home:The Return of the Alutiiq Masks was a Finalist for Culture & Arts