Athena Media radio projects have received four finalist results in the short-list for the prestigious New York Radio Festival announced today. The international radio awards festival is considered to be the ‘oscars’ of radio and in this year’s results four key Athena Media projects have made the final cut. Athena Media is the first irish independent to have 4 different projects in the finalist list and for 3 different broadcasters. Herosongs,
Citizens: Lockout 1913, and Science is Everywhere were funded by the The Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, and the Barry McGovern narration of Joyce’s “The Dead” was funded by UCD and broadcast by RTÉ lyric fm.
These are Herosongs, our history meets song series RTE Radio 1/BAI, which is short-listed in best educational programming, Citizens: Lockout 1913-2013, our landmark history series RTE Radio 1/BAI shortlisted in best history programming, James Joyce: The Dead an illustrated reading by Barry McGovern, shortlisted in best narration craft and finally our science series Science is Everywhere Newstalk/BAI shortlisted in best science and technology programming. The results ceremony is in New York on June 23rd and you can sample all the winning programming online from promo clips to full programming so listen, enjoy, share and judge for yourself!