Golden Reel Awards - Winners

The National Federation of Community Broadcasters is pleased to announce the Winners for the 2002 Golden Reel Awards. The winners were announced and honored at a Golden Reel Awards Lunch on Saturday, April 20, 2002 as part of the 27th Annual Community Radio Conference.

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

Special Golden Reel for Public Service

Golden Reel: Know Your Rights, Noelle Hanrahan, KPFA and the Prison Radio Project.

Local News

Silver Reel: Airport Evacuation: Parts 1, 2 and 3; Karen Schaefer; WCPN.
Special Merit: Bears versus Humans in the High Peaks; Brian Mann, North Country Public Radio.
Special Merit: Feedback, Mario E. Espinoza and Ana Lilia Barraza, KUBO/Radio Bilingue.

Live Local Public Affairs Programming

Silver Reel: Beyond the Pale, Esther Kaplan and Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark, WBAI.
Silver Reel: Mountain Talk - Prison Holiday Call-In Show, Nick Szuberla and Amelia Kirby, WMMT.
Special Merit: Youth Speaks Out! Racism? In Our Schools?, Dan Roberts and Eda Levenson, KZYX.
Special Merit: Nevada City Remembers New York City, Steve Baker and Molly Fisk, KVMR.

Pre-produced Local Public Affairs Programming

Golden Reel: WNYC Radio Rookies, Marianne McCune and Czerina Patel, WNYC.
Silver Reel: PCBs in the Upper Hudson - A Battle Fueled by Politics and Passion, Brian Mann, North Country Public Radio.
Special Merit: Radio Vida - Tobacco Series, Salvador Garcia and Vanessa Soto, WRTE Radio Arte.
Special Merit: Joey Interviews a Cutter, Joey Thompson, WMPG/Blunt Youth Radio Project.

National News/Public Affairs Programming

Golden Reel: World Trade Center Special Report, Maria Emilia Martin and Alex Avila, Latino USA.
Silver Reel: Genetic Testing - To Test or Not to Test, Jeremy Sugarman, Beverly Abel and Linda Belans, Duke University.
Special Merit: "Her Story", Joan Buffington and Dawn Fischer, KVMR.
Special Merit: Rainbow Family Values, Sadie Babits, Jill Aldape and Steve Jess, Boise State Radio.

Local Special Event Coverage

Silver Reel: Guggenheim/Hermitage Las Vegas, Florence Rogers, Nevada Public Radio.
Special Merit: Amigos Unidos Playoff Game #2, Jerry Lunsford, West Marin Community Radio-KWMR.

Local Documentary

Golden Reel: Truth and Consequences - Youth Smoking in Kentucky, John Gregory and Kim Sorise, WFPL.
Silver Reel: Voices of Domestic Violence, Susan Thom Loubet, KUNM.
Special Merit: Women United for Peace, Angie Karran and Kristen Zimmerman, KPFA.

National Documentary

Golden Reel: Tell Me How Long Trane's Been Gone, Steve Rowland and Larry Abrams, WFMT Fine Arts Network.
Silver Reel: Across the Tracks - a Route 66 Story - Program I, David King Dunaway; PRI.
Special Merit: Mrs. G's House, Katie Davis, This American Life.

Local Music/Entertainment Series

Golden Reel: Your Neighbor's Radio, Rob Rosenthal and Tom Faux, WMPG.
Special Merit: SFJazz Series 2001, Andrea Lewis and Lisa Rothman, KPFA.
Special Merit: Homenaje Para Louie Ramirez, Nancy Rodriguez and Dred-Scott Keyes; WBAI.

National Music/Entertainment Series

Golden Reel: Valaida Snow, Queen of the Trumpet, Dave Radlauer , Rhythm Productions.
Golden Reel: Boombox Classroom-Rhythm Show, Marty Ronish, Sweet Bird Classics.
Silver Reel: Loose Leaf Book Company-Seven Deadly Sins, Jonathan Mitchell and Peter Crimmins, Ben Manilla Productions
Special Merit: Minnesota Orchestra National Broadcast Series, Brian Newhouse, PRI.
Special Merit: Earthsongs - Hendrix Experience, Gregg McVicar, Koahnic Broadcasting Corporation

Special Local Entertainment/Music Program

Golden Reel: Minnesota Orchestra Regional Broadcast, September 14, 2001, Brian Newhouse, Minnesota Public Radio.
Silver Reel: The Food at JazzFest-Crawfish Fiesta, Bill Berry and Pat Patterson, WWOZ.
Special Merit: Steel Pan Central, Megan De Francesco and Helen York, WERU.

Special National Entertainment/Music Program

Golden Reel: Alternative Music Special, Angelica Luevano, Walter Morgan and Maria Hinojosa, Latino USA.
Silver Reel: Cross Cultural Music Special, Angelica Luevano, Walter Morgan and Maria Hinojosa, Latino USA.
Special Merit: The Thai Elephants Orchestra, Adeline Sire, producer and Lisa Mullins, host, PRI's The World.

Radio Drama

Silver Reel: The 2001 Live NATF Workshop Broadcast, Bill Oaklay and Sue Zizza, The National Audio Theater Festivals, Inc.
Special Merit: Death of a Salesman/The Dark Sleep, Marya Errin Jones and Rachel Kaub, KUNM.
Special Merit: Amor Y Deseo, Roberto Solorio and Delia Saldivar, Radio Bilingue.

Promotion

Golden Reel: Minnesota Public Radio Classical Music Service - Branding Spots; Steve Seel and Jack Allen, Minnesota Public Radio.
Special Merit: WMNF Station Promos, Sheila Daughtry, WMNF.
Special Merit: Peltier PSA 1 and 2, Hal Clark, Maria Carrion, and Amy Goodman, the Leonard Peltier Defense Committee.

2003 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, 2002. Any program broadcast on a noncommercial community radio station between November 1, 2001 and October 31, 2002 will be eligible.