[grc] National Radio Day (8/20) organizing call

[gretchen k]

Hello Sabrina and all--

What an important initiative for community radio!

This would be a great campaign to present as a workshop during the World
Forum on Free Media in Montreal this August. Many non-profit radios work in
contexts where the community knows very little about the sector/station.

Today is the last day to submit proposals:
http://www.fmml.net/spip.php?article161

FYI - I am on the local organizing committee and there are lots of great
proposals coming in relevant for community/non-profit radio. Please stay
tuned for the preliminary schedule!!

Thanks!

--gretchen



On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 12:47 AM, Sabrina Roach via grc <
grc at maillist.peak.org> wrote:

> You’re invited to join a National Radio Day (8/20) organizing call hosted
> by Paul Riismandel of Radio Survivor and I on 6/6 at 2 ET/ 1 CT/ 12 MT/ 11
> PT. We’ll keep it 30 minutes or under.
>
> Dial In: 1 (712) 775-7031
> Meeting ID: 992-062-986
>
> Last year we really made a splash with our National Radio Day campaign to
> build awareness about community radio and about new low power FM stations.
> This year August 20th falls on a Saturday - a perfect day for an event in
> your community!
>
> - 55 noncommercial radio stations and 35 cities across North America
> participated.
> - The #NationalRadioDay hashtag was trending all day on Twitter with 22,000
> tweets. The year before we did
>    anything had a handful of tweets and most of them were about a National
> Radio Day in another country.
> - Instagram saw 3000 posts tagged #NationalRadioDay.
>
> It’s a great date peg for pitching local media about your station’s
> mission. Here’s how the Seattle Times and our NBC affiliate covered what we
> did locally - an LPFM that isn’t on the air yet streamed a youth led live
> broadcast at our downtown public library.
>
> In advance:
>
> http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/seattle-area-to-celebrate-new-fm-hyperlocal-radio/
> Day of:
>
> http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/celebrating-new-fm-stations-on-national-radio-day-3/
> TV:
>
> http://www.king5.com/story/news/local/seattle/2015/08/20/seattle-gets-7-new-hyper-local-fm-radio-stations/32043569/
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