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RECOMMENDED
PUBLIC BROADCASTING SERIES:
RADIO
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The
following
public radio program series are currently available to all
stations at a nominal fee or free. If your station does not carry
them, this might be a place to start your group's dialog with
its management.
If you contact
these program producers, they will send you sample tapes and promotional
materials. The tapes can serve as the focus of an educational session
for your members. The whole package can be left with local station
management to review for a follow-up meeting on scheduling and local
promotion.
Brief descriptions,
contact information and website links for the programs are listed
below.
| Each week
Alternative Radio (AR) presents perspectives and analyses on
such critical topics as the environment, media, U.S. foreign
policy, racism, economic and trade issues, and indigenous rights.
Produced by David Barsamian, AR featured speakers include Noam
Chomsky, Ralph Nader, Julianne Malveaux, Barbara Ehrenreich,
and many others. |
| Hosted
by Janine Jackson, Steve Rendall, and Peter Hart, CounterSpin
draws upon an international network of experts, analysts, activists,
and artists. The program dissects news coverage of a wide range
of issues and current events. In addition to providing an antidote
to the coverage of elites that dominates mainstream media, CounterSpin
exposes and highlights biased and inaccurate news, censored
stories, sexist and racist media assumptions, and other items
of interest. |
| With
host Amy Goodman, Democracy Now! goes beyond the rhetoric and
party politics offered by the mainstream media. Instead, it
highlights grassroots efforts to enhance and ignite democracy
in the U.S. It focuses on a range of issues that demand attention,
from the relationship of citizens to their government to the
economic realities of declining wages and standards of living
for the vast majority of Americans; from the role of money in
campaigns to the impact of new technologies on politics and
the media. |
Democracy Radio pioneered
the new format of Progressive Talk and revolutionized the radio
industry by demonstrating the commercial viability of this
exciting new format. Democracy Radio provides
the vision and seed capital necessary to launch national and
local progressive programs.
In January 2004, Democracy Radio created
and produced the first successful nationally-syndicated liberal
radio program, The Ed Schultz Show. After growing the program
to 95 stations nationwide —including 8 of the top 10
markets— Democracy Radio spun
off the show in June 2005 in order to focus on developing and
incubating new progressive programs. |
| Known
as "America's most popular progressive populist," host Jim Hightower
believes that "the true political spectrum is not right to left,
but top to bottom," and he has become a leading national voice
for the 80 percent of us who no longer find ourselves even within
shouting distance of those at the top. Author, radio commentator,
public speaker and political sparkplug, this Texan has spent
more than two decades battling Washington and Wall Street on
behalf of consumers, children, working families, environmentalists,
small business and just-plain-folks |
Making
Contact
National Radio Project
1714 Franklin Street, Suite 311
Oakland, California 94612
Tel: (510) 251-1332
Fax: (510) 251-1342
Email
Form
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| The National
Radio Project produces Making Contact, a 29-minute weekly program
committed to investigative journalism and in-depth critical
analysis which goes beyond the breaking news. Utilizing voices
and perspectives rarely heard in media, Making Contact focuses
on the human realities of politics, the connections between
local and global events, and creative possibilities for people
to engage in hopeful democratic change. Supported by independent
funding sources, Making Contact is free to explore corporate
connections to national and international policies, and is offered
without charge, via satellite and tape, to all public radio
stations. |
| Hosted
by investigative reporter and longtime radio personality Marc
Cooper. Each week, the show features lively interviews and news.
RadioNation rejects cutesy formatting and cuts through the blather
of mainstream news coverage to provide the real story on domestic
and international politics as well as literature, art, film,
music, TV and cyberspace. |
| Talk
of the Nation joins guests and regular contributors and listeners
in a discussion of the issues of the day. Host Juan Williams
leads the program Monday through Thursday. Pioneering features
of Talk of the Nation include the Book Club of the Air and
some of the most popular reading lists on the Web. |
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