Community Radio Program Awards (aka Golden Reels) on Hiatus for Evaluation

In order to evaluate how the National Federation of Community Broadcasters (NFCB) can best serve its membership and Community Radio as a whole, we will be conducting a review of our membership services during the summer and fall of 2005, including the annual awards program. Given the time and effort required to receive program submissions, recruit enough independent judges, as well as evaluate and score the programs for both finalists and winners, we have made the very difficult decision to suspend the awards program for 2006.

We will be sending additional information to our members about this review in the near future, but given that this is the typical time to begin soliciting programs for submission we feel it is important to make this announcement now.

We anticipate that this will be disappointing news to many of you working in Community Radio, and we want to emphasize that this decision was not made lightly but in the spirit of aligning the purpose and execution of the awards with the mission and role of NFCB. The awards have long been an important aspect of NFCB’s service to Community Radio, and we have been hearing comments from many of you that led us to many thoughtful discussions about the awards.

We will review the recommendations we receive from our members and hope to develop a revised program to recognize great work in Community Radio.

NEW!
August 5, 2010

Job Opening: NFCB seeks AAPRS Project Manager
[Click here for information]

July 16, 2010
Support PTFP through letters and phone calls to legislators.
[Click here for information on the threats to PTFP]

July 12, 2010
NFCB receives CPB grant to provide services to African American stations.
[Click here to read the press release]

July 7, 2010
Maxie C Jackson III featured in this month's Media and Democracy Coalition newsletter
[Click here to read the newsletter]

July 7, 2010
NFCB members support threatened Radio Victoria in El Salvador.
[Click here to read the resolution]

July 6, 2010
NFCB and AMARC call on government officials to denounce attacks on media practitioners in the Americas.
[Click here to read the resolution]

June 14, 2010
National Black Programming Consortium announces the launch of the Public Media Corps in Wash. D.C.
[Click here to read the press release]

May 20, 2010
Democracy Now's Amy Goodman to give closing speech at NFCB conference
[Click here to read the press release]

May 8, 2010
NFCB files in the FCC's Future of Media Proceeding
[Click here to read the Testimony]

April 28, 2010
Maxie Jackson speaks at
FCC's non-commerical
media workshop on
Friday in Wash. DC.
[Click here to read press release]
 
February 24, 2010
NFCB files testimony
with the Senate in support
of PTFP for FY2011.
[Click here to read the Testimony]

February 4, 2010
More info on and registration for the 35th Annual Community Radio Conference is now available.
[Click here to Register Online]

February 3, 2010
The FCC established a Tribal Priority in broadcast licensing for Native America.
[Click here to read the press release]

November 16, 2009
Maxie C. Jackson III is NFCB's new President and CEO
[Click here to read press release]

NFCB and NPR announce the Station Action for Emergency Readiness (SAFER)
[Click here to read Press Release]

DEI
DEI-NFCB Collaboration
Website Now Launched
[Read the press release here]

Digital AudioCraft Available Now
[Click here]

Streaming Copyright Basics
from Melodie Virtue at
Garvey Schubert Barer
[Click here (121kb PDF)]

Results of the WMMT Audience Research Study
[Click here]

New Technologies,
New Music
If you missed NFCB's seminar series on independent music and digital platforms, we have all the content available now on demand.
[Click here to access all the files]

NFCB Participant Members covered by CPB Sound Exchange Agreement
CPB has reached an agreement with Sound Exchange around royalties for webcasters which covers NFCB participant members.
[Click here to learn more about this]

NFCB’s Strategic Plan
[Click here to view the Word document]

Basic Radio Station Website Strategies
See the PowerPoint presentation on listeners’ use of station websites and tips for designing yours.
[View Now]

Music Licensing Information
Includes fee schedules and links to licensing applications.
More information on Broadcast Licensing for Stations

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.

 

 


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