Look forward to seeing you at PMCC
Creative PR looking forward to seeing you and catching up on everything happening at your stationat the PMCC conference in Salt Lake City.
Below is a list of the programs Creative PR currently offers. Please let us know if any of these might be a good fit for your station, or if you would like additional information.
OPEN TO DEBATE
America is more divided than ever—but it doesn’t have to be. Open to Debate brings multiple perspectives together for real debates that are structured, respectful, provocative, and fact-driven. We examine the issues of the day with influential thinkers to build a stronger democracy through the civil exchange of ideas. Be open-minded. Be curious. Be ready to listen. Join us in being Open to Debate.
Available: Content Depot , PRX , AudioPort
Length: One hour
Cost: FREE
opentodebate.org
SEARCHING FOR THE FIRST ROCK AND ROLL SONG
Listeners will hear music from that time when rhythm and blues and rock and roll were emerging but hadn’t yet become a predictable formula. A time when musicians were listening to and incorporating these music’s exciting emergence into their own style of music – music that is difficult to categorize.
Not a hits, oldies, or “history of” radio show. it’s all the songs that influenced our now-legendary musicians who are regularly featured in all those hits, oldies, and “history of” radio shows.
Available: PRX (Auto Download), PRX (Manual Download), AudioPort (1 hr Version), AudioPort (2 hr Version), AudioPort (3 hr Version), & Download
Length: One hour to Three Hours weekly
Cost: FREE
FOOTLIGHT PARADE: SOUNDS OF THE AMERICAN MUSICAL
Gives listeners the best seat in the house for songs from the musicals they love linked by Bill Rudman’s engaging and insightful commentary: from Gershwin, Berlin and Rodgers & Hammerstein to Lin-Manuel Miranda. Public Radio’s longest running and most popular Broadway show has been syndicated on public stations since 1998, and producer-host Bill Rudman brings a national reputation as an authority on musical theater.
Available: PRX (Auto Download) , DOWNLOAD
Length: One Hour
Cost: FREE
musicaltheaterproject.org/footlight-parade/
SOUND BEAT
A trip through the history of recorded sound. The daily, 90-second radio show highlights the holdings of the Belfer Audio Archive at Syracuse University, one of the largest sound archives in the United States. Each episode focuses on one particular recording from the archive and provides a back story detailing its place in recording history.
Available: Content Depot, PRX, AudioPort, Download
Length: 90 Seconds
Cost: FREE
COMING IN 2026 – TREASURE ISLAND
A telling for the new world of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island . A historic radio re-imagining of the classic withKeith David as Long John Silver, John Goodman as Billy Bones, and Glenn Turman as the Narrator, with a musical score by the legendary Taj Mahal. Told in eight hour-long chapters, fully dramatized with cinematic Sound Design from Skywalker’s Randy Thom, and MelodyGun Sound Studios, Burbank. Hear selected scenes at www.radiotreasureisland.org.
Could Dating an AI Be Better Than Dating a Human?
Is the love of your life… ChatGPT? People who have either found dating in our world more challenging or are feeling lonelier than ever are turning to AI chatbots to fill the void and find romance and companionship. To them, it is a new opportunity to experience those feelings without judgment or encountering rejection. As romantic love increasingly straddles the digital and physical realms, could AI companionship rival, or even surpass, traditional human connection? Some in favor of traditional relationships argue that real intimacy can’t be coded, and that love is evolutionary, complicated, and deeply human. Meanwhile, proponents of dating a bot say that AI can offer empathy, safety, and a new kind of connection, especially for those left out of traditional dating.
With this context, we debate the question: Could Dating an AI Be Better Than Dating a Human?
This debate will be recorded on June 10, 2025 at the Comedy Cellar’s Village Underground in New York City.
This debate was recorded at the Comedy Cellar’s Village Underground in New York City.
Arguing Yes: Thao Ha, Associate Professor of Psychology at Arizona State University
Arguing No: Justin Garcia, Executive Director & Senior Scientist at the Kinsey Institute; Chief Scientific Advisor to Match.com
Searching for the First Rock and Roll Song
Is your station searching for a new, free, weekly music program? End your search with “Searching for The First Rock and Roll Song”
PERFECT FOR WEEKENDS OR OVERNIGHT!
From WWOZ in New Orleans comes a truly unique music show featuring great early rock music rarely, if ever, heard on other music programs. A two-decade long staple on WWOZ, uber-knowledgeable Host Jaime Dell’Apa spins records coveted by collectors from the era when rock and roll was emerging but hadn’t yet settled on a definition of itself.
On Searching For The First Rock and Roll Song, listeners will hear music:
- from before rock and roll was domesticated into a commercial music industry.
- when country and western sounded like swing,
- when pop music sounded like rockabilly,
- when rockabilly sounded like rhythm and blues,
- when doo wop sounded like girl groups,
and all those musics sounded an awful lot like what we now call “rock and roll.”
Available: PRX (Auto Download), PRX (Manual Download), AudioPort (1 hr Version), AudioPort (2 hr Version), AudioPort (3 hr Version), & Download
Length: One hour to Three Hours weekly
Cost: FREE
This Summer, Dive into the history of recorded sound!
Sound Beat is a daily, 90-second public radio show that showcases recordings from Syracuse University Libraries’ Belfer Audio Archive, one of the nation’s largest sound archives.
Episodes feature a wide range of recordings from all musical genres, film scores, and great thinkers and political figures such as Albert Einstein and Teddy Roosevelt, and more. Listeners will hear fascinating rare gems, old favorites, and some never heard before recordings.
For more information about Sound Beat, check out our Program Listing
The Best of Broadway and Hollywood
Footlight Parade: Sounds of the American Musical
Public Radio’s Most Popular and Longest Running Broadway and Hollywood Musical Program
Since 1998, Footlight Parade: Sounds of the American Musical has been presenting the best of Broadway and Hollywood, from the early 20th century to current hits: from Gershwin, Berlin and Rodgers & Hammerstein to Lin-Manuel Miranda.
The best of Broadway and Hollywood music including rarely heard recordings.
“Bill Rudman brings musical theater history to life with charm, wit, insight, warmth, convivial chat and a wealth of knowledge”.
Entertaining and insightful backstage stories, anecdotes, and historical perspectives from Host and Producer Bill Rudman, a nationally recognized authority on musical theatre.
“I don’t know which I prefer: the music or your informative and entertaining commentary. BOTH are excellent!”
Exclusive archival interviews with, and in-depth interviews with of such acclaimed artists as lyricist Sheldon Harnick (Fiddler on the Roof and She Loves Me), composer John Kander (Cabaret and Chicago) and singers Mandy Patinkin and the late Barbara Cook, and many more!
“Bill’s in-depth interviews with all manner of artists provide a permanent, irreplaceable archive.”
Cost: FREE
Length: 56:50
Available: PRX Automated Delivery, Downloads