Golden Reel Awards - 2004 Finalists

Winners of the 2004 Community Radio Program Awards will be announced at the 2004 Community Radio Program Awards Ceremony in Albuquerque on Friday, April 23.

NFCB thanks and congratulates everyone who entered. We are extremely grateful to the preliminary judges for their assistance in selecting the finalists for the 2004 Community Radio Program Awards. We are proud of the quality of radio that is being produced and aired on community stations. The nominees are listed in their category by producer, distributor, and title.

Promotion (Station ID's, fundraising pitches, self-promotion, cross-promotion, forward promotion, promotion of outside events, services, etc.)

Ross Reynolds, KUOW, 1:50 - The Conversation Promos
Neil A. Mondesir, WBAI, Bai's Shirley's Kids
Todd Delaney, KSLU, Dangerous Sounds Promo
Rich Kirby, WMMT, Old Time Music Promo Carts
Sam Ross, Ethan Jud, Wes Tucker, Mick Pratt, Beth Roy, Nate Cory, Derek Dania, Justin Norton, Chelsea Rosenthal, Ben, Reid Stevensen, Chad Conley, WMPG, Blunt's Promo Sampler, 2003
Don McIver, KUNM, Spoken Word Promo
Peter Graff, KBCS, Streaming Promo

Local Music / Entertainment Program or Special

Arndt Peltner, KUSF, Moorsoldaten - Peat Bog Soldiers
David C. Barnett, WCPN, Hank Williams - Still Cookin'
Don McIver, Gary Mex Glazner, KUNM, The Poetry of Vietnam
Peter Bochan, WBAI, A Shortcut Through 2002
Roman Mars, KALW, Invisible Ink: Found
John Montanari, WFCR, The Aida Project

National Music / Entertainment Program or Special

Dave Radlauer/Rhythm Productions, Digging Spud Murphy
ZBS Foundation, The Android Sisters: Pull No Punches
Walter Morgan, Angelica Luevano, Maria Hinojosa, Cuba Jazz: From the Outside In
Gregg McVicar, Talk to the Spirits, Talk to the Wind
Darrell Brogdon, Right Between the Ears

Arts Features and Reporting

Dmae Roberts, Media Rites, WNYC, Weathering the Crisis
Holly Kernan, Daniela Rible, Eric Wayne, KALW, Wisdom vs. Test
Sarah Varney, KQED, Nude Model
Edward deBuvitz, KUNM, Jenifer Smith Feature
Joel Rose, WHYY, Howard Tate
Jim Campbell, WERU, Sound Portrait of the Artist: Paul Sullivan

Personal Essays

Dmae Roberts, Media Rites, KQED, Messages
Michael Johnson, Jude Fletcher, KQED, Chicken Diaries
Joe Bevilacqua, NPR, A Guy Named Joe Bevilacqua
Roman Mars, KALW, Invisible Ink: Confessions of a Child Beauty Queen
Geo Beach, KQED, A Numeric Grammar
Viet Le, WHYY, Home to Vietnam

Radio Drama Production

The Independent Eye, KWMR, Outside the Dying
Albuquerque Radio Theatre, KUNM, INET Radio: A Spoof
Brian DeShazor, Mark Torres, KPFK, John Hersey's Hiroshima

Local News and News Features

Karen Schaefer, WCPN, West Nile Virus: To Spray or Not to Spray?
Shannon Young, KPFT, CAFTA vs. Gulf Coast Shrimpers
Tom Herriman, Peter Graff, KBCS, KBCS Community Report - Canoe
Daniel Kraker, KUYI, Piestewa Vigil
Lisa Nurnberger, WAMU, FBI Iraqi-American Interviews

National News and News Features

Sarah Varney, Gay Smoking
Harriet Baskas, Katherine Wright - The Third Wright Brother
Paul Ingles, Albuquerque Isotopes Begin Play
Katalin Mester, WTO Kills Farmers
Jeremy Scahil, Jacquie Soohen, Ghosts of Safwan
Helen Barrington and the staff of PRI's The World, WTO Pinwheel
Jackson Allers, Associacion Tepayac Torch Run's "Our Lady of Guadalupe"

Local Public Affairs Features (pre-produced features no longer than 10 minutes)

Deepa Fernandes, KAOS, Do You Know a Terrorist?
Kate Welch, KBOO, Gusto Women
David Sommerstein, WSLU, Root, Root, Root for the Rutabagas!
Brian Mann, WSLU, The Case of Ansar Mahmood
Sarah Hughes, WAMU, Latina Teen Pregnancy

National Public Affairs Features

David Gilmore, Dmae Roberts, Out on the Streets
Blunt Youth Radio Project: Jessica Margolis-Pineo, Valerie Randall, Playdough to Plato
Aimee Pomerleau, Queer as Youth
Krissy Clark, On The Trail of the Lynx
Sarah Hughes, Night Shift
Brad Linder, Burn That Trash

Live Local Public Affairs Programming (more than 2/3 of the program is live). Includes call-in programs.

April Baer, Paul Cox, WCPN, 90.3@9 - Convention Fracas/Domestic Partners
Doug Nadvornick, Marty Demarest, KSFC, Growing up Healthy: Vaccination Debate
Martha Foley, WSLU, Morning Newscast
Robin Gianattassio-Malle, Herminone Gee, Keven Guillory, KQED, Women's Health and California
Sasha Lilley, C.S. Soong, KPFA, What's Wrong with Tolerance

Pre-produced Local Public Affairs Programming (such as pre-produced discussions of currente events)

Lyssa Mudd, Dave Gilson, Claudine Zap, Tamara Keith, Matt McCleskey, Rose Hoban, Noam Birnbaum, Yahaira Castro, Jill Krauss, KALX, B-Side: What's in a Name?
Youth Radio, KQED, Youth and Civil Liberties Show
One Step Forward Collective, WMNF, Cubans
Michael Johnson, KQED, Hot Soup: The Presence of the Past
Michael Johnson, KQED, Hot Soup: The Art of Sound
Czerina Patel, Marianne McCune, WNYC, Lower East Side and Midwood

Pre-produced National Public Affairs Programming

Patricia Monteith, WUMB, Commonwealth Journal
Lydan McGrath Productions, WGBH, Refugia: The Whole Wide World Episode 3
Harlan McKosato, Jon Ghahate, Susan Braine, Tina James-Tafoya, KUNM, Native America Calling: Sacred Hoop Journey
WFUV, WFUV, Democracy on the Block
Noah Miller, SF Liberation Radio, Standing Up to Hate: Newark, CA One Year After a Murder
Elisabeth Perez-Luna, WHYY, Been There, Done That - Atlantic City

Local Documentary

Deepa Fernandes, Matt Rogers, WBAI, El Valle: Mikl and Bricks in Chavez's Venezuela
Marya Morstad, KFAI, Art and Spirit Matters: Arts and Religion in the Twin Cities
Chris Simon, Grisel Mansur, Viviana Mansur, KZMU, Packing House
Chris Simon, Angel Martinez, KZMU, Fowler Switch
Elizabeth Wynne Johnson, KMUN, VOCA Camp
Shelley Schlender, KGNU, Overfed, Undernourished & Overadvertised: The Childhood Obesity Epidemic

National Documentary

Dmae Roberts, Media Rites, Miracle on the Streets
Jonathan Mitchell, Ahri Birnbaum-Golden, Shades of Gray
Jake Warga, Road Trip
D. Cameron Lawrence, John Gregory, Sisters in Pain
Jay Allison, Viki Merrick, State of Union - Hearing Voices Special

NEW!
Reply Comments on Diversity of Ownership
On August 29th, NFCB joined with other major media partners to file reply comments that commended the FCC for its effort to increase ownership diversity. [Click here to view the briefs in their entirety]

Amicus Brief on Indecency
On August 7th, NFCB and the ACLU filed a brief criticizing the FCC’s regulation of “indecent speech”.
[Click here to read the brief in its entirety]

Web Conference Series
NFCB proudly announces a new webinar series for Members only.
[Click here to see the schedule of sessions]

New Technologies,
New Music
This fall, we’re launching a project for New York stations that’ll help them access independent music via new technology platforms.
[Click here to find out more]

The FCC has issued a new version of The Public and Broadcasting, revised April 2008.  
[Click here to view and print this document for your station’s public file.]

Legal Handouts from the 33rd Annual Community Radio Conference
The law firm of Garvey Schubert Barer provided these handouts on legal issues at the 2008 Community Radio Conference.
[Click here to access the documents.]

Latino Public Radio Consortium
The LPRC issues a Brown Paper calling for a different kind of public media system.
[Click here to read the Brown Paper]

Music Licensing Information
Includes fee schedules and links to licensing applications.

Check Your Indecency IQ
Attorney John Crigler of Garvey Schubert Barer has an indecency quiz. Take the quiz and see how much you know about current FCC indecency rulings. John has also written an indecency primer. Download and read the Primer.