Why radio works: From First Broadcasts to Knockout Punches to “He made the catch” to “After 54 years, your long wait is over”, 20 Great Moments over the Last 20 Years

One of the many, great aspects of living and working in New Jersey USA is the high quality of entertainment. From music to theatre to food to the shore, every day and night offers a means to enjoy the moment.

Sports are significant in the metropolitan New Jersey area. Baseball, basketball, football, and hockey are represented. Golf, tennis, and running capture attention regularly.

Over the last 20 years, WFAN 66 AM ( http://www.wfan.com/ ) has broadcast and commented upon the excitement of sports. In celebration of their 20th anniversary, the station released a list of the Top Twenty Moments as voted by its fans and listeners. The list, which may be heard at http://www.wfan.com/pages/627821.php , replays many memorable moments since the station first aired on 1 July 1987. Kudos to WFAN for 20 years of memorable and engaging sports broadcasts and commentaries.

Radio works. Whether playing ball, tipping it off, kicking off, dropping the puck, teeing it up, serving it, or crossing the finish line, radio works.

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Radio Drama Revival!: Thursdays from 1:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. on WMPG FM 90.9 and 104.1 in Portland, Maine or http://www.wmpg.org/ on the web

Radio Drama Revival! is a weekly radio show/podcast dedicated to stories told through sound, showcasing the diversity and vitality of modern audio theater. Operated by Frederick Greenhalgh of FinalRune Productions, the show features audio theater stories and discussion with contemporary dramatists from across the United States.

Radio Drama Revival! airs live on WMPG FM 90.9 and 104.1 in Portland, Maine, streams on the web at http://www.wmpg.org/ , and podcasts from http://www.radiodramarevival.com/ .

Details for Radio Drama Revival!:

• Thursdays 1:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
• Broadcasting on WMPG FM 90.9 and 104.1 in Portland, Maine
• Streaming on http://www.wmpg.org/
• Podcasting on http://www.radiodramarevival.com/

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Greetings to Radio Blog Theater and Lee Gooden

Lit Between the Ears welcomes Radio Blog Theater and award winning playwright Lee Gooden to the publication. Webcasting from Blog Talk Radio  ( http://www.blogtalkradio.com/ ), Radio Blog Theater “consists as original dramatic and comedic works performed by the So It Goes Players from So It Goes Productions.”

Browse over to Radio Blog Theater for their performance schedule.

Details:

Radio Blog Theater

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/leeradiodrama

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Why radio works: Mr. Jobs, radio drama will make your iPhone sound bigger than any movie ever will

Ms. Laura M. Holson’s article titled Hollywood Seeks Ways to Fit Its Content Into the Realm of the iPhone (Published 25 June 2007, New York Times) chronicles the impact of Apple’s pending release of its iPhone. Movie studios throughout Hollywood are rushing to get movies onto the next generation of mobile phone. Without question, visual content will survive and prosper on cellphones and undoubtedly Mr. Jobs and Apple will be leading the way.

However, radio drama can flourish irrespective of the new mobile phones’ video capabilities. Radio’s unique capacity to thrill, chill, fascinate, educate, terrorize, dramatize, or humorize can succeed with only a speaker.

Mr. Jobs, radio drama can magnify the brilliance of Apple’s new iPhone many times beyond what any movie can do. And Hollywood, radio can be big and bold without being shrunk down to accommodate anything.

Radio works. With or without the tiny screen.

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L.A. Theatre Works: Arthur Miller’s The Man Who Had All on Saturday 30 June

This Saturday, June 30 from 10 pm - midnight on 89.3 KPCC, L.A. Theatre Works’ The Play’s the Thing will air The Man Who Had All the Luck by Arthur Miller, starring Kurtwood Smith, Graham Hamilton, Emily Bergl, Kevin Chamberlin. An off-beat fable about David Beeves, a young Midwesterner who has good fortune shine on him while passing others by.  When will David’s luck run out and at what price?

Where to listen

The series can also be heard on 89.1 KUOR in Redlands; 94.1 KPFA in Northern California; 91.5 FM WBEZ in Chicago; 91.1 FM KRCB in Sonoma County; 93.5 FM  KRTS Marfa Public Radio (Texas); 89.7 WGBH in Boston; 94.9 KUOW in Seattle; 88.9 FM KUNM in Albuquerque; as well as on many other public radio stations nationwide and XM Satellite Radio. Selected programs from LATW are also heard internationally over BBC World Service, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Radio Telefis Eirann (Ireland), Radio Hong Kong, and Radio New Zealand. The L.A. Theatre Works Audio Theatre Collection is available in bookstores, libraries, through their catalog, digitally on itunes, overdrive.com, audible.com, and on the L.A. Theatre Works website at http://www.latw.org/ .

Entire schedule

To get a full schedule, go to the L.A. Theatre Works website at http://www.latw.org/ and follow the link through the “Radio Theatre Series” heading and then “Episode Guide” or go directly to http://www.scpr.org/ for KPCC.

Additional support

Additional support for the series is provided by AudioFile Magazine.  Listeners can visit their website at http://www.audiofilemagazine.com/ to view 65 reviews of LATW plays and hear sound clips from them.  The Beverly Hilton hotel is the official hotel for The Play’s the Thing.

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