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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!

American Women in Radio & Television announced the 34th Annual Gracie National Award Winners.  PICKING UP THE PIECES: How Family and Faith are Healing Veterans Home From War from Prime Time Radio won Outstanding Documentary – Mid-Length Format.   The award will be presented at a black-tie Gala in the Broadway Ballroom of the New York Marriott Marquis on Wednesday, June 3, 2009.

PICKING UP THE PIECES visits with five families of veterans wounded by IEDs in Iraq and Afghanistan. The families are coping with the aftermath of traumatic brain injuries (TBI) and post traumatic stress (PTSD). This special breaks new ground by focusing on the parents, especially mothers, who have given up everything — their jobs, retirement savings, and plans for the future – to step in and care for their sons. This issue has not gotten the attention is deserves. In the coming years, as additional tens of thousands of injured veterans return home, overburdened parents will respond with love and support, but the rest of us need to…

PICKING UP THE PIECES is a special from AARP’s radio series, Prime Time Radio.

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