Radio Stations:
Sign up with A4MD!New support for noncommercial radio stations through live music performances:
- Live Music attracts economic growth and community support: compare communities with a strong local music and cultural scene to those without and you’ll begin to see the power of what live music can do.
- A national project is underway to link local stations and venues to create new regional/national music touring highways (network) to help new and established artists reach live audiences while they support your station and community.
- We have designed a hub of interaction to share artist-contributed music with local stations for programming collaborations and mutual fundraising, a new model for station development.
- This is a collaborative effort between station personnel and recording artists.
- Sign up with A4MD to show your support for our organization.
- There’s no obligation and nothing to pay, our services are free to noncommercial radio.
- As we are currently in a developmental grant-writing stage, we ask that stations sign up with A4MD, letting us know that you and your station are interested in our organization once it is in full swing. To help us obtain grant-funding, A4MD needs the support of stations like yours!
Artists:
Let's Support Independent Media!CDs and Downloads: Help us build a Catalog to support Community Radio.
Have you created professionally produced, glass mastered, shrink-wrapped CDs?
- Contribute 10 CDs to A4MD. As they sell, we’ll buy more at wholesale prices.
- CD contributions are tax deductible.
- Pick an original song from your CD and donate downloads: 100, 1,000 - you choose! Downloads will help fund community radio stations equipment wish lists and provide future music premiums for station pledge drives.
- Sign up here to get started. (Use the form in the left hand column.)
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"Artists For Media Diversity exists to restore the purity and power of the spiritual relationship between music and radio."
- John Murphy, General Manager, WHUS, Storrs, CT
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A4MD participated in 3 national radio and music conferences:
IBS: Intercollegiate Broadcasting Systems 70th Annual National Radio Conference in New York City. March 4 - 7, 2010
SXSW: South By Southwest International Music Conference in Austin, TX March 17 - 19, 2010
NFCB: National Federation of Community Broadcasters Annual Conference in St. Paul, MN, June 9 - 12, 2010
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Presentations to the IBS and NFCB National Radio Conferences:
Building A National Touring Network Model for Collaborations with Local Radio and Musicians
Barbara Kooyman, Artists for Media Diversity, Austin, Texas
John Murphy, WHUS, Storrs, Connecticut
This session will focus on the symbiotic and powerful relationship between community stations and the music scene in your region, and how to promote local culture and commerce through your on-air and programming efforts. A national project is underway to link local stations and venues to create a new national/regional music touring highway (network) to help new and established artists reach live audiences. A new Internet site has been created (Artists for Media Diversity, www.A4MD.org) to share artist-donated music with local stations for programming collaborations and mutual fundraising, using a new and unique model for station development. We will explore ways for your station to join this effort and build this highway together. A second project under discussion within Pacifica Radio involves creating a portal for community radio e-commerce and national/regional theatre touring, using the same model and highway. Together, both efforts represent significant new opportunities for community radio.
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