On May 12, KFAI welcomed Ernesto Aguilar, Executive Director of the National Federation of Community Broadcasters, to speak to our Twin Cities community. Click below to catch the recording of Mr. Aguilar’s insights into the endurance and adaptability of community radio throughout the nation.
Bio: Before joining NFCB, Aguilar served Houston community radio station KPFT as program director for more than 11 years. He previously served as co-director of its news department, launching a daily newscast. A Maynard Institute fellow, Aguilar has worked with many initiatives, including Public Media for All. As a journalist, author, podcaster, public speaker, radio host and facilitator, Aguilar’s work has focused on democracy, inclusion and engagement.
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Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (above) is a cable-access show produced by long-time MCM member
Mariana Cordier. Mariana has produced the show in-studio at MCM and went virtual when COVID-19 closed the studios. She works with MCM’s production specialist, Dee Willett to create virtual treatments for the show each week and produce virtually).
Montgomery Community Media (MCM) is the only independent, nonprofit organization providing access to public media (public access television and broadband media) directly to Montgomery County’s over one million residents as well as the resident non-profit organizations, associations, and businesses. As a Montgomery County, Maryland resident, you don’t only benefit from MCM because you get to enjoy hyper-local community-centric programming on television. You also get to create content to later broadcast on our channels. If you are an aspiring media maker, producing a show to broadcast on MCM’s cable-access channels could be just what you
Tune In the 6th Annual Vinylthon!
Community radio kicks off participation in
Vinylthon 2021, an international celebration of vinyl records, at
midnight April 17 with
XLII90 Live Music Radio Hour. Other hosts pledging to spin wax that day include
F.R.P. from noon-2 pm with tasty reggae from the
Tropical Riddims vault, followed by
Gloria Hays celebrating international vinyl on
Panafrica from 2-4 pm. Vintage vinyl veteran
Rockin’ John spins 7″ and 12″ records as well as LPs on
I Like It Like That from 6-8 pm, followed by
Two For The Blues with tunes off the original 78 and 45 RPM singles spanning 1928-1970 from
The World, and worked as a staff reporter for WBEZ-FM in Chicago. At WBEZ, Field helped launch an education desk, spent four years reporting, in-depth, on the nation’s third largest school system and covered general assignment news. Field began his public radio career as an intern and contributing reporter at KQED Public Radio in San Francisco, where he filed stories for KQED News and
Field has received many honors and awards for his work. In 2012, his series on Maine’s prescription drug monitoring program was honored in the Public Affairs category by the Maine Association of Broadcasters. In 2007, Field won a national Sigma Delta Chi award for Radio Investigative Reporting for a series on overcrowding and disciplinary problems at a high school on Chicago’s South Side. That same year, Field was also part of a team of WBEZ journalists who contributed to the series
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