Shows will be heard across the U.S. and Abroad
Five students from the University of New Mexico’s Communications and Journalism and Political Science departments will help produce a radio talk marathon from Capitol Hill in Washington Monday and Tuesday that will be heard across the United States and abroad. The “Talk Radio Row” will feature some of America’s best-known talk show hosts, who will converge on Washington to interview more than 100 celebrity guests including governors, members of Congress, Martin Luther King III and incoming Obama administration officials.
The UNM students participating in the program include Dr. Christopher (“Coffee”) Brown, M.D.; Christina Lovato, Michael Ruhl, Candyce Torres and Suzia VanSwol. Besides assisting in day-to-day news gathering and production, the UNM students will take part in weekly private lectures with Washington journalists, publicists and newsmakers.
Their reports will be heard on TRNS' network of stations and on the web at Talk Radio News and on UNM Live! at UNM Live. Broadcasts will take place Monday and Tuesday from 5 a.m. until 11 p.m. EDT from the Liaison Capitol Hill Hotel at 415 New Jersey Avenue, N.W.
"This will be the third inauguration where the Talk Radio News Service brings together America's most popular syndicated and local hosts so that they can do live, in-person interviews with Washington's most important newsmakers and internationally-known celebrities -- and the first with production assistance from the University of New Mexico Talk Radio News Service," said Ellen Ratner, Washington Bureau Chief for TRNS.
"The 'Radio Row' is a marathon of our own creation," said Talkers Magazine founder Michael Harrison, a 30-year veteran of radio broadcasting and long-time radio trade journalists. "It allows hosts from all over the world to do their shows live from the center of the Inaugural action, with in-person guest appearances by celebrities from government, politics, the arts and entertainment."
Among the 100 confirmed guests are Virginia Governor Tim Kaine; Rev. Joseph Lowry; Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA), the newly-elected Chair of the Congressional Black Caucus; Russell Simmons, Sen. Deborah Stabenow (D-MI), Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH); Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH); Israeli Ambassador Daniel Ayalon; and a number of future Obama administration officials such as Chief of Protocol designate Capricia Marshall.
Production assistance for this year's Inaugration Radio Row will be supplied by interns from the University of New Mexico Talk Radio News Service, who arrived in Washington last week for ahands-on, semester-long Washington internship in partnership with TRNS, during which they will serve as credentialed journalists covering the House, Senate and White House.
The Talk Radio News Service is the only information, news booking and host service dedicated to serving the talk radio community. TRNS maintains a Washington bureau that includes studio facilities at the White House, Capitol Hill and the Pentagon, as well as a New York bureau at the United Nations. The Service provides daily White House and Capitol Hill news reports, daily MP3 interviews and news segment feeds and other services to the talk radio news industry.
Media Contact: Benson Hendrix, (505) 277-1816; e-mail: bhendrix@unm.edu
Posted by scarr at January 18, 2009 06:46 PM