The Communicator Awards is the leading international awards program honoring creative excellence for Communications Professionals. Founded by communication professionals over a decade ago, The Communicator Awards received over 9,000 entries from companies and agencies of all sizes, making it one of the largest awards of its kind in the world. The Award of Distinction is presented for projects that exceed industry standards in quality and achievement.
BIONEERS won the Communicator Award of Distinction for the following programs:
- Beyond the Bar Code: Local Food Revolution
- Toxic Trespassing: Inside Story of the Love Canal Uprising
BIONEERS: Revolution From The Heart Of Nature is an award-winning series of half-hours promoting practical environmental solutions and innovative social strategies for restoring the Earth and communities. Since 1990, the Bioneers organization has held annual scientific conferences based on the premise that we are moving from the Information Age to the Biology Age, in which environmental issues will shape all others. The Bioneers radio showsfeature the leading scientific and social innovators of our time bringing all the drama and optimism of these conferences to life. 15 new shows yearly plus 91 archived.
LENGTH: 28:30
AVAILABLE: FTP; Content Depot; CDs
COST: FREE
LISTEN: 2008 Series
The Communicator Awards is sanctioned and judged by the International Academy of the Visual Arts, an invitation-only body consisting of top-tier professionals from a “Who’s Who” of acclaimed media, communications, advertising, creative and marketing firms. IAVA members include executives from organizations such as Alloy, Brandweek, Coach, Disney, The Ellen Degeneres Show, Estee Lauder, Fry Hammond Barr, HBO, Monster.com, MTV, Polo Ralph Lauren, Sotheby’s Institute of Art, Victoria’s Secret, Wired, and Yahoo! To learn more about the IAVA please visit www.iavisarts.org.
Compact Discoveries is a series of one-hour, classical music radio programs, which, true to its title, introduces listeners to some of the most exciting and unusual compositions to be found on compact discs. Award-winning host-producer-writer Fred Flaxman organizes his weekly hour of classical selections thematically: “Brazilian Beats,” “Discs for Dishwashing,” “The Tune that Drove Composers Wild,” “The French Gershwin,” “The Cuban Gershwin,” “Best Music For Backrubs,” “Aaron Copland: The Brooklyn Cowboy,” “Fauré’s Fiascos”…and on and on. Fred’s easy-going manner and wit, combined with his masterful grasp of musicology make him an ideal presenter and guide. Listeners love the show, and broadcasters have nothing but praise for it: “If there is any hope of interesting more radio listeners in classical music, it will be because of programs like Compact Discoveries. The host, Fred Flaxman, makes this music accessible, fascinating and fun. Program directors across the country owe it to their listeners to add this terrific, imaginative, creative series to their schedules.”
– Jerry Carr, President and CEO, WXEL-TV-DT-FM
PRX’S MOST LICENSED PRODUCER AND/OR MOST LICENSED SERIES 3 YEARS RUNNING!
AVAILABLE: PRX, FTP Download, & CDs
Isla Earth is nominated for Best Investigative/Series and Best Multimedia Package at the 51st Annual Southern California Journalism Awards.
On June 14th, hundreds of journalists from Los Angeles and the Southland will gather to honor their colleagues when the Los Angeles Press Club presents its 51st Annual Southern California Journalism Awards.
Editors, reporters and supporters of quality journalism will gather at the newly renovated Sheraton Universal in Universal City to see recipients honored for their work in broadcast, print and online media.
Last year, the Isla Earth Radio Series won first place in the News Bureau category at the Los Angeles Press Club’s 50th Annual Journalism Awards gala on Saturday, June 21, 2008.
ISLA EARTH — A radio series that explores today’s most important challenges to the environment and impressive successes in conservation. These entertaining, science-based, modules encourage ecological awareness, deepen understanding of our natural world, and encourage environmentally sustainable choices. Produced by the Catalina Island Conservancy.
LENGTH: 90 seconds
COST: FREE
AVAILABLE: on CD, mp2, and via Podcast
SIRIUS XM Radio launched Footlight Parade (known as On the Aisle on SIRIUS XM), with host Bill Rudman, on the On Broadway channel. Each week, Footlight Parade (aka On the Aisle) will feature a theme that ties together performers, songs and lively commentary. SIRIUS and XM listeners will hear a mix of show tune hits related to specific themes, such as “Making an Entrance;” “1950 on Stage and Screen;” “Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? – The Social Conscience of the American Musical;” “Charmed;” and “Strike Up the Band: Broadway Overtures.”
Footlight Parade (aka On the Aisle) is produced by The Musical Theater Project, a nonprofit organization, whose mission is to celebrate the stage and screen musical as a great American art form. Rudman founded the organization in 2000.
WHEN: Saturday at 3 pm ET and rebroadcast on Tuesday at 9 pm ET
WHERE: On Broadway, SIRIUS channel 77 and XM channel 75
Broadcast on more than 75 stations nationwide, host Bill Rudman’s Footlight Parade: Sounds of the American Musical is a weekly radio program showcasing the best of Broadway and Hollywood – songs from the turn of the 20th century to today.
Treat your listeners to a powerful and unique half-hour this Memorial Day
- A double portrait of German sculptor Kathe Kollwitz (1867-1945), who created The Grieving Parents in memory of her son killed in WWI, and contemporary American-German sculptor Suse Lowenstein, creator of an equally monumental work honoring her son lost in the 1988 Lockerbie disaster. For both women, their work (18 years for Kathe, 14 years for Suse) becomes a pathway through and beyond grief, affirming the transforming power of art.
- A dual creation of storyteller Helen Engelhardt and sound artist Marjorie Van Halteren.
- The third program in a trilogy exploring the themes of war, loss, memory, and regeneration. The other two half hours, Unquiet Graves and Yesterday and Forever, are also available.
LENGTH: 26 min 30 Sec
AVAILABLE: Free CD & PRX (134 points)
BIONEERS: Revolution From The Heart Of Nature has won two Communicator Awards of Distinction at the 15th Annual Communicator Awards.