Radio and TV
Ricky Bradley
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Ask questions or share yours or your chapters successes and experiences with:
  • Working with radio and television stations to highlight stories of climate change
  • Radio and TV interviews
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Brett Cease
3861 Posts
This recent POLITICO article draws from the American Meteorological Society's recent annual meeting, and Climate Central's Climate Matters program:

Some meteorologists and scientists are working to help conservatives acknowledge that the climate is changing by removing any mention of "climate change" or human impact from their story, and instead focusing on putting extreme weather events in historical context (e.g. 500 year floods happening every few years now, etc.).

What are your thoughts about it?

Reviving this old forum post with a question about getting radio stations to broadcast the great PSAs that CCL has produced? Any tips? Just email and call them and ask nicely? 😁 

I found this by searching the internet:

HOW TO SUBMIT A PSA TO YOUR LOCA LTV & RADIO STATIONS Contact your local television and radio stations and ask for the public affairs director. This is the person responsible for scheduling PSAs. Find out what PSA length the station prefers (15 or 30 seconds); format (single or double-spaced); how it should be submitted (via e-mail or regular mail); how much advance notice the station needs; and any other information required. Some TV and radio stations also offer PSA submission details on their websites. On your PSA sheet, include your name, title, phone number and e-mail address. If mailing, include the information on your letterhead stationery. Send the PSA along with a cover note asking the public affairs director to consider running your PSA. Follow up a week later with him/her to find out if the station will be airing your PSA and, if so, when. 

If any CCLers here have experience or advice I'd love to hear it! Thank you! 

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