Streetcats and Celebrate Radio Launch Largest Worldwide Radio PSA Campaign

August 13, 2007 (PRLEAP.COM) Business News
Celebrate Radio Expands International PSA Campaign And Reach to 4 Continents

Alameda CA—-The multi-organization international ‘Do Good’ radio public service announcements campaigns launched this Summer by One Heart for Kids, Streetcats Foundation and Celebrate Radio are greatly expanding. They are becoming one of the largest multi-topic, multi-language and multi-country PSA campaigns for radio ever created.

Producer Don Fass, with colleagues Laurie Larson, Raymond McCullough, Bryan Howard and Brooke Binkowski the international radio campaign is now completing studio voice tracks for PSA campaigns for Not for Sale (USF Ethics professor David Batstone's stop human trafficking organization), Oasis for Haiti, The African Childrens Choir, Iraqi Childrens Art Project and Alliance for Smiles (operations for children with facial deformities here and overseas) as well as for multiple organizations on AIDS, poverty, child abuse, human trafficking, climate control and youth addiction.

Don Fass is in charge of writing, producing and distributing all of them, as well as getting all PSAs translated into 3 African languages and at the University of Sydney into Chinese, Spanish, Russian, Ukrainian and Bulgarian.

Also completed or nearing completion are multi-organization radio PSAs on world hunger, U.S. and overseas poverty, AIDS, child trafficking, youth addiction (with CCM pop star Bryan Duncan), a series called ‘Be a Blessing and PSAs for the Live Earth climate initiative and for the One organization ( with Matt Damon, George Clooney, Don Cheadle, Pastor Rick Warren and Alfre Woodard)

All PSAs carry appropriate original music by Tim Searcy, Bryan Duncan, Beth Shafer, Debbie Zepick, Felix Linden and others.

The newest station carrying the PSAs will be Inspired Faith Broadcasting from Kiryat Yam in the Galilee, Israel plus AM/FM stations already broadcasting them in Alberta Canada, Nashville, Pittsburgh, Greenville SC, Albuquerque and Santa Fe, Ghana, Capetown South Africa, Manila and Quezon City Philippines and northern India.

The PSAS also begin airing late September to 30 million listeners a month on Lesea Broadcasting shortwave to all of SE Asia, India and China, on WJIE Shortwave to South America and on Nexus and European Gospel Radio to the UK, Europe, Russia and the Middle East with Lesea Broadcasting shortwave to all of Africa following in October and adding another 8 million listeners a month..

Celebrate Radio and Streetcats anticipate another 300 AMs and FMs to follow in late September/October around the world!

Artists and corporate and charity sponsors are welcome to join in with appropriate music on topics, to recordvoicetracks and make a small donation to further this important work.

CDs

Adding to our second music compilation CD, Positively Music 1 just updated and released, Positively Music 2, Positively Music 3 and L'Chaim will be released this year as well as a newly-announced For Justice music compilation CD each benefiting several childrens and justice organizations. Also to be released in September will be our first 60's classic interview CD, 40th. Anniversary of the Summer of Love with Jefferson Airplane's Marty Balin, rock impressario and Fillmore founder Bill Graham, the SF Mime Troupe, the Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia and more all done by Don..

CDs on the Britih Invasion and Bleecker Street Greenwich Village ‘60’s will follow as well as a commemorative album for the 40th. Anniversary of Apollo 11: The First Lunar Landing.

Artists for the music CDs include Peter Paul and Mary’s Peter Yarrow, Margo W. Smith, Yeshiva Boys Choir, Ardent Zeal, Pam Thum, Comeg, Sheva and Mr. Sleep, King Crimson’s Adrian Belew, Beth Shafer, Katuv, the Ukraine’s Margo, African Childrens Choir, 60’s folk icons Tom Paxton and Odetta, Mark Shelton, Yvonne Perkins, Shadrach, Bryan Duncan, Sanctuary, Deborah Kuhl, Seed, Judith-Kate Friedman, Peter June, Zehnder, Stephen Marshall, the Soweto Gospel Choir, Moshav, Tempest and many others.

CONCERTS

Artists TBA starting hopefully around Oct.5 at Alameda California's Bay Farm Community Church that Celebrate Radio is producing. also as benefits for childrens and youth work.

CELEBRATE RADIO

Tons of new songs (now nearing 1400 from 17 countries) and new programs like Bryan Duncan's musical Radio Rehab, Shabbat Shalom, The Family Guy and Catholic Music Express have been added to the international, interfaith Positively Music, news and social justice station broadcasting on satellite, shortwave and the web 24/7.

This Fall, Celebrate Radio’s Positively Music show will begin on a number of FM stations here and throughout the world as will Celebrate Radio’s new weekly World of Religion features and interviews on shortwave to Europe, Russia, the Middle East, Africa, India, China and Southeast Asia with acombined audience of 37 million or more each month.. Our Reaching Up Radio music and interview show aimed at youth and young adults is also being syndicated to AM, FM and shortwave stations.

To join in or to get the psas for stations, contact info@celebrateradio.com