"Family Album Radio" receives national media award from the CCF
“Family Album Radio” is the largest research-based radio series on family life, and an award from the Council on Contemporary Families recognizes the program as being one of the nation’s best information sources.
May 4, Senior Producer Donna Davis and Executive Producer Suzanna Smith of the Department of Family, Youth and Community Sciences received the 2007 CCF Media Award for Radio Coverage of America’s Families. It was presented at CCF’s annual conference and media awards event in Chicago.
“We’re thrilled. This is such an honor,” said Davis, who also narrates the program. “Out of the five award winners, we’re in there with Time magazine and WNET, New York City’s major producing public-television station, so it’s nice to know that we’re on the same content, production and quality level as some of the biggest media in the country.”
“Family Album Radio” is a two-minute program broadcast five days a week, Davis said. Each episode focuses on a specific aspect of family life, from parenting to money management to marriage. All scripts in the series are based on current published peer-reviewed scientific research.
CCF selected “Family Album Radio” for the award based on its choice of topics and compatibility with the organization’s goals. With a membership comprising nationally known experts, CCF is a nonprofit organization dedicated to enhancing the national conversation about what contemporary families need and how those needs can best be met, according to its Web site.
“This award shows that we are on the mark in reporting on the most current trends and issued in families’ lives,” Smith said.
Produced and distributed nationally from the University of Florida’s public radio stations, WUFT-FM and WJUF-FM, the program also is available via satellite feed and online at RadioSource.NET and iTunes, Smith said. In addition to being broadcast in 18 counties throughout North Central Florida on WUFT-FM and WJUF-FM, “Family Album Radio” is carried in about 20 states, and programs are downloaded approximately 1,000 times a week from RadioSource.NET.
The latest project associated with “Family Album Radio” is a series of CDs, each featuring multiple programs focused on a single topic. This will make the programs widely available to families and professionals with particular interests or needs, she said.
The first CD, on parenting babies and young children, was released in November 2006 in cooperation with the United Way’s Success by 6 project and is given to new parents at Gainesville-area hospitals. The CD also is available to the public through the IFAS Extension Bookstore. The next CDs focus on family nutrition, child-care issues, and parent-school partnerships.
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