Haliburton Broadcasting Group owns 24 Ontario radio stations. kowchmedia hosted a news workshop for its anchors from across Ontario. We also conducted a series of one on one aircheck sessions with their anchors. Among the topics discussed during the five hour workshop included breaking news coverage, how to share news stories with other Haliburton stations, the use of audio clips in newscasts, how to do interviews, how to tell stories, how to speak on the radio, understanding media code of ethics to stay out of trouble, how to use the internet as a tip service - not as a legitimate news source and the importance of writing news stories of interest to listeners of different music formats. We also discussed chasing their dream for a successful radio career.

Montreal's Tietolman Tetrault Pancholy Media hired kowchmedia to work with them on its applications to the CRTC for two news talk radio stations in Montreal. The Montreal application was for a French language talk radio license and an English language talk radio license. The TTP Media presentation earned high praise from CRTC commissioners. The client was successful in winning the French language license for 940AM and on going talks with the commission continue to secure the English language license on another as yet unannounced AM frequency.  In December 2011 Tietolman Tetrault Pancholy Media again turned to kowchmedia to help in their CRTC application for the last FM frequency (88.1FM) in Toronto. Toronto hearings started Monday, May 7th.

CKNX in Wingham turned to kowchmedia to work with its on air talent. kowchmedia conducted a monitor of the station's talk programming and spent the day at the radio station meeting one on one with the talent and the management team. The one on one coaching sessions were followed by a staff meeting to discuss the results of the monitor and an open discussion about radio, talk radio, formatics and on air presentations.

Aboriginal Voices Radio is a radio network with stations in Toronto, Ottawa, Edmonton, Calgary and Vancouver. It's music based programming during the week and talk on weekends. AVR Radio Networks hired kowchmedia to work with its on air talent across the country. We conducted a series of monitors followed by a couple of two day seminars with the staff.  One on one coaching sessions were held with the announcers, news anchors, production crew and management. This was followed by a day long staff meeting to discuss radio, formatics and on air presentations. kowchmedia also wrote imaging liners, promos and show intros for all five stations.

The Ontario Association of Broadcasters represents radio and television stations across Ontario. Among its many projects is the Amber Alert Program to spread the word quickly when a child is abducted. When it came time to update the contact list for Emergency Measures Ontario, the OAB turned to kowchmedia. Every radio and TV station in the province was contacted to get the names, phone numbers and email addresses of those who needed to be informed whenever a child was a victim of abduction in their area.

Show Kids You Care operates Breakfast Clubs across Canada that provides meals to thousands of disenfranchised children before school. kowchmedia produced a video interview of Kristy Taylor, the executive director of Show Kids You care. We also helped write a new marketing brochure for the charity. If you click on the Show Kids You Care logo you can view the video. You'll need a tissue while watching Kristy's video. She is quite passionate about the need to provide meals for children whose parents can't afford three meals a day. kowchmedia also produced a podcast and webinar for Show Kids You Care and its home charity, Trinity Global Support Foundation.

Pure Water Box is a Canadian company that has developed specialized water purification container units to provide clean drinking water where none exists. kowchmedia was hired to write press releases, marketing brochures and fresh content on its website. kowchmedia also produced a video to promote PWB's bottling unit and its unique Emergency Response Unit that purifies dirty water and distributes the drinking water in half litre bags. View the video by clicking on the PWB logo.

When Harvey Brooker wanted to launch weight loss classes during the week he turned to kowchmedia to write content for his website at http://harveybrooker.com We also produced a promotional video and wrote 52 scripts for the Brooker Success Team members who did the weekly presentations. More than 175 men joined the classes and lost a combined total of TWO TONNES of fat in the first year of classes. Kowchmedia was also hired to write the scripts for six 60-minute audio CD presentations and to update Brooker's social media content on Facebook, Twitter and its website.

Juan Fanzio is making a name for himself with local news portals on the internet. TorontoNews24 is just one of the many news portals he has created. kowchmedia wrote news copy for his different news websites. Media 5.0 is responsible for some of the more innovative online news networks across Canada. He distributes news releases on his social media newswire, designs websites and produces corporate videos and bio videos.

kowchmedia has also been hired by talk show hosts, FM music announcers, radio & TV news anchors and broadcast journalism students for one on one coaching sessions and producing demo tapes.

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