Since 1990, the Soundbites team has created and produced over 250 short political cartoons for public radio. Using top New York voice talent, their mini radio dramas lampoon the parade of events in the news. Their topical satires have been heard regularly on National Public Radio programs, and Soundbites has won both national and international awards.
1991 Grant award, Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), Soundbites Pilot Series
1992 National Gold Award, Outstanding Public Affairs Program of 1991, CPB
1992 Grant award, National Endowment for the Arts for 1-hour "Year-In-Review" program
1992 Soundbites featured in a national exhibition of political satire by the Museum of television and Radio in New York and acquired for the permanent collection.
1993 International Silver Medal, New York Festivals Radio Programming Awards (Editorial/Viewpoint category)
1993 Major grant award, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Soundbites Satire Service
Highly produced in digital stereo, Soundbites, Inc. audio productions have value-added their radio cartoons with animation. Now Soundbites is designing a service of fresh and timely satire in the form of animated political cartoons for television and new media. News Goggles...Virtual Updates marry award-winning editorial satire content to computer-generated animation. Computer technology allows for fast turnaround from concept to air, so Soundbites animated news political cartoons can lampoon the news...while it's still news. The first cartoon has been published by NautilusCD, a monthly magazine on CD-ROM.
Soundbites feels animated political cartoons are an inevitable feature for a variety of new media platforms, including on-line computer networks, broadcast and cable television. Soundbites is ideally positioned by experience as a topical content provider to offer a regular news cartoon service.
In both 1992 and 1993, Soundbites produced hour-long "Year-In-Review" comedy programs, distributed nationally to public radio. In future, Soundbites will animate these satire shows as television specials. Soundbites also produces a short educational/entertainment radio feature that takes a lighthearted look at a "This Week In History" event. These will be animated for new media and television.
Under CPB grant, Soundbites, Inc. continues to provide a weekly short satire audio service to public radio into 1995. The audio series is also being carried by NautilusCD and In Touch Networks via 300 cable television systems into five million homes.
Soundbites would like to thank NautilusCD subscribers for their positive response to satire and the idea of new media political cartoons in general! Soundbites reports you have been very appreciative, and some of you have even been calling your local public radio stations, demanding to hear more Soundbites.
Should you want to react to their work, reach out to Soundbites, Inc. by:
Snail Mail: Soundbites, Inc., P.O. Box 103, New York, NY 10185
Telephone: 212-889-9445
Facsimile: 212-889-9402
E-Mail: sbites@well.sf.ca.us
They'd love to hear from you!
Look for more Soundbites satire as a regular feature of NautilusCD!
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Soundbites material may not be reproduced in any form.
