SLB Radio Productions, Inc.
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Target demographics: People of all ages and across all generations.
Direct beneficiaries per year: 40,000 to 75,000 and Internet radio listeners
Geographic areas served: Western Pennsylvania
Mission:
The mission of SLB Radio Productions, Inc. (SLB) is to use radio and audio programs and technologies to encourage, amplify, share and archive the ideas, stories, feelings and ideas of children and youth.
These activities provide an innovative method to promote increased:
These activities provide an innovative method to promote increased:
- verbal literacy
- media literacy
- listening and communication skills
- self-esteem and confidence
- critical and creative thinking
- respect, tolerance and understanding of others
- community engagement
- cooperation
- interaction among children and adults
- informal out-of-school learning
- familiarity with new technologies
Results:
Weekly broadcasts of our Saturday morning radio program since 1978. We currently air from 6 to noon on 88.3 WRCT Pittsburgh, 91.1 WSAJ Grove City, 90.1 WIUP Indiana, 90.7 WMCO New Concord, 91.7 WNJR Washington, 91.7 WCUC Clarion, PCTV via Channel 21 on Comcast Pittsburgh, and Channel 47 on Verizon FIOS. In a typical year, we feature over 70 professional musicians performing on air, over 100 interviews with area non-profits, over 50 youth musicians and 20 youth theater previews. Off-air activities include radio dramas, workshops and audio projects involving over 2,000 children per year.
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fingershreds
02/28/10
First, as a listener to this wonderful, family-friendly interactive program.
Then, as the community relations person for a small non-profit cultural organization, who has always found in SLB a ready ear (and voice) for our programs and projects...
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pavelovich
02/28/10
For the past ten years SLB Radio has helped promote fundraising efforts for the homeless shelter at which I work. St. Joseph House of Hospitality has a yearly bluegrass benefit concert and SLB radio has had musicians from that concert perform on the Saturday morning prior to that concert. Not only...
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dennis4
02/28/10
My 7th and 8th grade students have worked with the Saturday Light Brigade (SLB) for past two years on an outstanding project entitled Allegheny Voices.
This entire project came into being after a casual conversation I had with Larry Berger and Jeff Barron of SLB. I was mistaken that our ...
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