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.
Neil Harvey has been an independent radio producer for 20 years.
He is Senior Producer and Host of the award winning radio series Bioneers: Revolution From the Heart of Nature which is heard in over 300 communities in the U.S., Canada and abroad. He was editor for the California Indian Radio Project and is now the audio archivist for the California Indian Storytelling Association. He Co-produced the CISA radio special When the Ancestors Whisper . . . Stories From Native California. As Senior Producer for New Dimensions Radio he produced several award winning special series including The Synthesis Dialogues with His Holiness the Dalai Lama, The Monticello Dialogues which feature anticipatory design architect William McDonough, and the 13-hour Deep Ecology For The 21st Century.
Early in his career he produced a number of radio features for NPR’s Morning Edition, was Associate Producer for the nationally distributed series Music From the Hearts of Space, and served as Host and Producer for The Love of Wisdom with Alan Watts. As a sound engineer he has worked in Sweden, Austria, India, Nepal, Mexico and Israel. He works from his home at the feet of the Trinity Alps in a small mountain community in far Northern California. A self described celebrant, his passions include gardening, wine making, painting, poetics and petanques.
