Creative PR

Many of our shows won awards at the 2008 Zeitfunk Awards from PRX. Each spring PRX release the results of the “mostiest” stations, producers, and listeners for the previous calendar year. It’s like a zeitgeist — only funkier!

The Vinyl Cafe walked away with two 1st Place Awards; Most Licensed Group & Most Licensed Series!

One of Canada’s most popular radio programs, with over 750,000 North American listeners. Host and story-teller Stuart McLean is a best-selling author and award-winning journalist and humorist. The show features the music of up and coming Canadians — both live and recorded — and the misadventures of Dave — owner of the “Vinyl Cafe”, the world’s smallest record store (motto: “We may not be big, but we’re small”). Dave’s fictional milieu includes wife, Morley, their two children, Sam and Stephanie, and assorted friends, neighbors, and customers. Since 1998, Stuart has taken the show on the road to large and small towns across Canada from Newfoundland to the Yukon.

Liner Notes won for Most Licensed Debut Group.

Unlike any travel show on public radio, LINER NOTES is a journey in itself. A not-to-be-missed celebration of wit, wisdom and wanderlust.
Recorded over lunch at the Captain’s table aboard the legendary Queen Mary 2®, destinations as they are and as they exist in literature, painting, film, music and myth are discovered in monthly, hour-long “Algonquin Roundtable” gatherings of notable and award-winning authors, artists, journalists and musicians. Each conversation will raise themes relating to travel, such as “Falling in Love with a Place”, “The Benefits of Wandering,” “Lost in Translation,” or “Ex-Patriot Dreams.”

FIVE of our shows were in the TOP TEN for Most Licensed Piece from PRX.

• 3rd Most Licensed Piece – Picking Up the Pieces from Prime Time Radio

• 4th Most Licensed Piece – War and Place from Liner Notes

• 5th Most Licensed Piece – Peace Talks Radio: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Path To Nonviolence

• 8th Most Licensed Piece – Saving The Sierra

• 10th Most Licensed Piece – Sand, Still in My Shoes from Liner Notes

Chasing the Crescent Moon: The Story of Dr. Frempong and Sickle Cell Disease from Aaron Schwartz won Most Licensed Youth-Produced Piece.

Congratulations to all of our winners!

Creative PR is alive and kicking after Tuesday’s earthquake in Los Angeles. There were no problems; besides the phone line’s “all circuits busy” for about an hour and the rattled nerves of our smallest four-legged employees. To mark this special news, take a listen to some of the SPECIALS that are now available. Schedule them today!

The Story of Lata – A 54 minute radio special that examines a culture reviving ancient traditions as possible solutions to sustain its communities. The forgotten arts of sailing and navigation may be the answer to rising fuel costs for Solomon Islanders in a remote corner of the South Pacific.

Liner Notes: Sand Still in My Shoes - For Labor Day, the 4th installment of the Liner Notes series of specials.

Saving the Sierra - A richly produced one-hour special about how unlikely allies are coming together to preserve rural culture from rapid residential growth, sustain local economies as recreation developments boom, and protect clean water and open space for future generations.

What’s the Word? : Hispanic Heritage Month – For Hispanic Heritage Month (15 Sept. – 15 Oct.), the smart, engaging, and highly produced literary series from the Modern Language Association, presents two half-hour programs celebrating Puerto Rican and Latin American literature.

Now available on the WGBH Forum Network as a webcast and MP3 download, LINER NOTES – War and Place. Visit LINER NOTES – War and Place here.
LINER NOTES is an eight-part literary/travel series. Aboard Queen Mary 2, host and raconteur Paul Holdengräber helms roundtable gatherings exploring the many meanings of Place with notable and knowledgeable guests. Each program is appropriate to a holiday or a season, yet evergreen. Shipboard conversations are supplemented with special features recorded ashore.
LINER NOTES is created by veteran public radio producers Jon Kalish and Marty Goldensohn, and underwritten by Cunard. (more…)