Golden Reel Awards - 2003 Winners

The National Federation of Community Broadcasters held its 2003 Golden Reel Award Ceremony on March 21 in San Francisco. There were 13 Golden Reel winners, 21 Silver Reels winners, and 20 Special Merit winners honored at this annual celebration of outstanding and creative uses of the medium for community radio broadcasters, station-based and independent producers. The Golden Reel Awards have a long tradition in NFCB's 28-year history. The Golden Reels are given by community radio's sole national organization, the NFCB, to community radio producers. The awards, presented during the Annual Community Radio Conference, are open to programs broadcast on non-commercial community radio stations from November 2001 to October 2002. NFCB received a total of 360 entries and required the ears and talents of 58 judges.

Winners are listed with the name of the program, the producer(s), and the distributor.

To download a list of the 2003 Golden Reel winners in PDF format, click here.
To view a list of 2002 winners in HTML format, click here.

Local News and Commentaries

Golden Reel: Coal Bucket Outlaw, Tom Hansell, WMMT
Silver Reel: The Talking Couch Mocks Hollywood Stereotypes of Native Americans, Joe Gardner Wessely, KUNM
Special Merit: NCM News Roundup, New California Media/KALW, New California Media and KALW.
Special Merit: Body Image, Blunt Youth Radio Project/Carolyn Snell, WMPG

Live Local Public Affairs Programming

Golden Reel: Crisis in the Catholic Church, Heidi Caravan, with Julie Kredens, Brian Conn, Robin Fisher, and Julie Goodwin; WFPL.
Special Merit: Bourbon, Heidi Caravan, with Julie Kredens, John White, Robin Fisher, Julie Goodwin, Andy High, Mac Dula, and Terry Rensel; WFPL
Special Merit: Tell the World: Journalists under Fire, Sharan Louise Harper, Errol Maitlund, Rosalie Hoffman, Amy Goodman, and Bernard White, WBAI

Pre-produced Local Public Affairs Programming

Golden Reel: Flushing and St. George, WNYC Radio Rookies, Marianne McCune and Czerina Patel, WNYC
Silver Reel: El Microfono en la Barberia, Jesus Vera-Irizarry, Corporacion de Puerto Rico para la Difusion Publica
Silver Reel: Recalling Row Houses, Virginia Prescott-Project Row Houses, KPFT
Silver Reel: B-Side: Caught on Tape, Dave Gilson, Emelie Gunnison, Tamara Keith, Mia Lobel, Lyssa Mudd and Claudine Zap, KALX
Special Merit: The Impact on Learning (2nd of a 5-part series): "The Imaginative Mind", Patricia Terrazas and Nicole Sawaya, KALW/SFUSD-Sanchez Elementary

National News and Commentaries

Golden Reel: Abu Ghraib Prison: Saddam Grants Amnesty, Jeremy Scahill and Jacquie Soohen, Democracy Now! and Iraq Journal
Silver Reel: Western Stampede: The Rush for Coalbed Methane, Eric Whitney, High Plains News
Silver Reel: Stories of Technology, William Hammack, WILL

National Public Affairs Programming

Silver Reel: Let's Go to Mazar: A Chronicle of Life in Afghanistan after the War, Pratap Chatterjee, the National Radio Project
Special Merit: Kenya: Taking It Personally, Christina Fleming and Neil Harvey, , New Dimensions Broadcasting
Special Merit: East Timor Becomes Independent, Deepa Fernandes, Free Speech Radio News

Local Special Event Coverage

Silver Reel: One Spokane Summit-Live Broadcast, Doug Nadvornick and Marty Demarest, Spokane Public Radio
Silver Reel: 911: A Remembrance, Jackson Allers, KPFT
Special Merit: US Conference of Mayors 2002, Special Coverage, the WORT News Department, WORT

Local Documentary

Golden Reel: The Hopfers, Aileen LeBlanc, WYSO
Silver Reel: Voices of the Tenderloin, Susan Stone/Radio Chronicles, KPFA
Special Merit: Christian Rappers: Keep Your Shirt on in Church, Sarah Richards, KPFT

National Documentary

Golden Reel: 1930's Florida Folklife, Barrett Golding, Hearing Voices/NPR
Golden Reel: The Sonic Memorial Special, The Kitchen Sisters (Davia Nelson & Nikki Silva) and Ben Shapiro with Jamie York, Joe Richman, Jay Allison, Laura Folger, Elinoar Astrinsky, Jim McKee and the Sonic Memorial Collaboration, Public Radio Collaboration
Silver Reel: American Road Trip, Youth Radio, PRI
Silver Reel: Biowars: First, Do No Harm, Monica Lopez and Stephanie Welch, the National Radio Project
Special Merit: Bones and Stones, Daniel Grossman, Radio Netherlands

Promotion

Golden Reel: Life on Delmarva Series, Bruce Schimmel and Irene Hodes, WSCL
Silver Reel: Used Music Sale Promotions, Brian Siewiorek, WCBU
Silver Reel: Stephen in the Evenin' Show IDs, Mike Stephen, WLUW
Special Merit: Youth Anti-Tobacco Campaign, Marshall McKerchie and Randy Novelli, KHDC/Radio Bilingue

Local Music/Entertainment Programming

Golden Reel: Right Between the Ears, Darrell Brogdon, Kansas Public Radio
Silver Reel: Johnny Cash: All Mixed Up, Peter Bochan, WBAI
Silver Reel: The Concert Companion, Jeanne Fisher, WXXI
Special Merit: Ear to the Ground: Pangea, John Strader, KUNM
Special Merit: Song Circle of Friends, Clint Harding, KDHX

National Music/Entertainment Programming

Golden Reel: Barbara Dane: A Life in Song, Dave Radlauer, Jazz Rhythm
Silver Reel: Earthsongs: I Ku Maumau, Gregg McVicar, Koahnic Broadcasting Corporation
Silver Reel: Echoes: World Fusion in the Global Village, John Dilberto and Kimberly Haas, PRI
Special Merit: Eddie Palmiere Special Features, Walter Morgan, Angelica Luevano and Maria Hinojosa, Latino USA
Special Merit: An Echoes Requiem, John Dilberto and Kimberly Haas, PRI

Special Local Entertainment/Music Program

Golden Reel: Fade to Black, Midnight Ravers, WBAI
Silver Reel: Madama Butterfly, Alan Farley and Nicole Sawaya, KALW
Special Merit: War of the Worlds, Joron Bourque, Freakshow Audio Productions
Special Merit: A Tribute to John Hartford, Rodger Collins and Bill Berry, WWOZ.
Special Merit: Ear to the Ground: 4:20 Special, John Strader; KUNM.

Special National Entertainment/Music Program

Golden Reel: Musica de las Americas, Angelica Luevano, Andrea Valdez, and Walter Morgan, Latino USA.
Silver Reel: A Celebration of Southwest Storytellers, Paul Ingles and Nola Daves Moses, Cedar Creek Studios and KUNM
Special Merit: Especial de Huapango: Celebrando el Mes de la Herencia Latina, Delia Saldivar, KHDC/Radio Bilingue

Radio Drama

Golden Reel: What Light from Darkness Grows, Janine Carter and Erica Gould, WBAI
Silver Reel: And How Does That Make You Feel?, Blunt Youth Radio/Kathleen Ross, WMPG
Special Merit: Program Already in Progress: The Search for bin Laden, Dan Bernard, Jim Hall and Michael Townsend, WMPG

2043 Golden Reel Information
The deadline for entering a program in the 2003 Golden Reel Awards will be 5 PM Pacific time on Friday, November 8, 2003. Any program broadcast on a noncommercial community radio station between November 1, 2002 and October 31, 2003 will be eligible.