It’s a holiday miracle: the 2019 Best of the Best Broadcast will be four hours total, expanded from two.
Our annual Best of the Best Broadcast (BOTB) is now a total of 4 hours. Why?! So that we can play more “Oscars of Radio” award-winning stories IN FULL.
The 2019 Third Coast/RHDF Competition award-winners deserve a four-hour broadcast.
In the past, we’ve packed all 11 Third Coast/RHDF winners into just one 2-hour broadcast. But now, we’re expanding the broadcast into a total of four hours! With four hours of Best of the Best, you can hear nearly all of the most groundbreaking, cutting-edge podcasts and radio shows of the year in their entirety.
Instead of excerpts, we’re playing as many award-winning stories in full as possible! Yep, that means…
- Mardi Gras Is A State Of Mind, winner of the Best New Artist award, produced by Mara Lazer? Played in full!
- Punks, from the podcast Nancy, winner of the Skylarking award for stories intended to delight the listener? Played in full!
- The Return, winner of the Best Documentary: Gold award, from Latino USA? Played in full, plus an interview with producer and audio poet Sayre Quevedo.
- This Is Not A Drill, winner of the Best Documentary: Bronze award, from producer Jazmin Aguilera & a talented team from Snap Judgment? Played in full.
- Change Intolerance, an episode of the groundbreaking podcast Crackdown, winner of Radio Impact award? Including an interview with host Garth Mullins and producer Sam Fenn!
- ROW-cub, winner of the Best Documentary: Honorable Mention award. Played in full, with an interview with producer Neena Pathak.
- Death in Illinois Prisons: He Didn’t Have The Death Penalty But That’s What He Got, from Shannon Heffernan at WBEZ, the winner of this year’s Best News Feature award. Played in full!
This year, Best of the Best is being released in four standalone broadcasts: Hours One, Two, Three, and Four. All four hours are now available to for public radio stations to purchase and airing across the country through the holiday season (see all airings, below)!
(If you are a public radio station and you’re interested in airing Best of the Best on your station, click here!)
This week’s airings of Best of the Best…
Each week, public radio stations nationwide are playing Best of the Best. Below is a list of upcoming airings!
If you don’t see your local station here, have faith that many more stations will play all four hours of Best of the Best throughout the holiday season.
Check back next week for an updated list of airings!
Best of the Best Broadcast airings — week of December 9:
KQED (Bay Area)
Thursday, December 12
8pm — 9pm PSTKOSU (Oklahoma)
Sunday, December 15
2pm — 3pm CST
