Large International Multi-Issue Radio PSA Campaign Launches from California
June 21, 2007 (PRLEAP.COM) Entertainment News
ALAMEDA, CA——.Even before the new series of multi-organization 'Do Good' and 'Be a Blessing' radio psas that Streetcats Foundation's One Heart for Kids campaign is completed in July with international Celebrate Radio, requests from stations throughout the U.S. and around the world are coming in to broadcast them.The psas, produced by veteran radio personality Don Fass, include spots on AIDS, world poverty, hunger in the U.S., child trafficking, teen substance abuse addiction, peace and justice and violence against children.
Requests, even before One Heart for Kids starts distributing the psas, have come in from stations around the U.S., Western Canada, The Phillipines, India, Benin and South Africa.
The One Heart psas will also air in rotation 24/7 on Celebrate Radio across the U.S,via satellite to the UK, Europe, Russia and the Middle East, via shortwave to Central and South America and on Celebrate Radio's, new weekly World of Religion programs broadcast over LeSea Broadcasting shortwave radio to all of Africa, China, India and Southeast Asia, the latter with a monthly audience of 29 million people in 67 countries..
Each psa features appropriate music, donated by artists with messages like Katuv's about trafficking, Beryl Quniton's version of Amazing Grace (to the melody of House of the Rising Sun), John Hager's American Kids, We Are Family by Mr. Sleep, Beth Schaefer's Working for Shalom, Felix Linden's Somebodys Child and Make a Difference songs by both Debbie Zepick and Tim Searcy.
Listeners will be directed to a new DO GOOD page on both the Celebrate Radio (www.celebrateradio.com) and Streetcats One Heart for Kids web sites (www.oneheartforkids.com), where they will find a number of organizations they can volunteer with or donate to, themed by topic such as poverty or AIDS.
The campaign is now looking for voices to translate the radio spots into Spanish, Chinese, African and other languages and sponsors to spread the messages to 400 more radio stations.
This year, it is also releasing a new series of 3 Positively Music benefit compilation CDs and 4 60's classic rock interview CDs that will support many of the organizations that the psas call attention to, from The Amazing Change to the African Childrens Choir, One to UNICEF and Compassion International.
Streetcats Foundation is a 16-year-old Bay-area non-profit, One Heart for Kids an international initiative it began in 2000 and Celebrate Radio, a Positively Music, social justice and interfaith radio station it began in 2004.
More information and the radio psas by email and CD and downloading from the web to stations is available from info@celebrateradio.com .