WHY COMMUNITY RADIO & RADIO CHICAGOLAND?
“Mornings with Ray Hanania” is the lively new radio show in Chicagoland with an emphasis in the region’s 6 million listening audience.
Broadcast Monday thru Friday mornings from 8 until 9:30 on mainstream WJJG 1530 AM Radio, the show features one of Chicago’s best known and flamboyant Chicago journalists.
A veteran of print and newspapers, covering Chicago City Hall from Daley-to-Daley and breaking the city’s biggest scoops, Hanania is a magnet for attention.
Audiences love Ray Hanania or they hate Ray Hanania. But, they listen to Ray Hanania.
More importantly, though, is that the new morning radio program is the cornerstone of a growing community focused communications network that is the new model for how businesses can maximize their returns in marketing and advertising dollars.
The show is not only broadcast on radio, it also is simulcast on the Internet on several online networks with heavy visitor traffic, in audio and video formats.
Here’s an overview of how print, broadcast and internet come together to put your advertisement on the radar screen of listeners and readers:
Radio broadcast – The broadcast signal reaches the heart of Chicagoland’s strongest consumer market.
- Highland Park to the north
- Arlington Heights and Palatine to the northwest
- Elgin, St. Charles and Aurora on the West
- Oak Lawn, & as far as Orland Park/Homer Township on the Southwest
- Chicago, from Pulaski Road west
Internet Audio Broadcast – Using the latest technologies, Mornings with Ray Hanania is also listened to on the Internet live.
Internet Video Broadcast – Using the latest technologies, Mornings with Ray Hanania is also watched on Internet Television.
Internet Podcasting – Segment interviews, including your message and sponsorship, are archived on iTunes for download to iPods. Your message will be included in the interviews that count and are distributed to more than a thousand subscribers on iTunes who download Ray Hanania’s interviews to their iPods and computers using the Internet’s most popular podcasting site, iTunes. (Podcasting is merely the audio segment that is automatically downloaded to computers by listeners so they can hear the show at their convenience, or rehear it, as the case may be.)
You are NOT just getting radio. “Mornings with Ray Hanania’s” reach is enhanced in many important ways:
In Print – Ray Hanania authors an award winning column that is published weekly in print on Chicago’s Southwest side and suburbs, and exclusive columns that appear on the newspaper’s web site.
On Comcast Cable TV – Ray hosts a weekly, Friday night TV program that is a video segment of the Radio Show, reaching homes in 145 suburban communities, the two largest broadcast districts in Comcast Cable TV.
On the Internet – The network of Mornings with Ray Hanania includes four main web sites with a cumulative visitor traffic averaging around 6,000 a day that includes, and a dozen popular blogs:
RadioChicagoland.com
TVChicagoland.com
TheMediaOasis.com
eNewsNews.com
OrlandParker.com
SuburbanChicagoland.com
iBooksReviews
RadioChicagoland News Wire
(Check blog links on www.RadioChicagoland.com)
In a weekly listener Newsletter – Ray sends out a newsletter to more than 1,700 recipients regularly highlighting the show’s best interviews and upcoming events. It also includes Internet linked advertising space for show sponsors.
If that isn’t enough, Hanania’s columns are syndicated throughout the United States, including on the number one Internet web blog, the HuffingtonPost.com which “shirttails” his program and the radio show web site on every column.
Ray Hanania is the winner of three Society of Professional Journalism Lisagor Awards for column writing, two in the last four years. He was named “Best Ethnic American Columnist” in the nation by the New America Media is California in November 2006. He is frequently booked as a guest or commentator on Chicagoland political talk shows, and is quoted often in regional media. And adding a popular aspect to his show, Hanania is an accomplished standup comedian. Like everything else, Hanania’s didn’t enter comedy quietly but in an international blast when he locked horns with famed comedian Jackie Mason at Zanies Comedy Club in 2002. Hanania’s comedy advocates Middle East peace and not everyone likes that. Well, maybe his wife does. He’s Palestinian American, a veteran of Vietnam Ear service and his wife and son are Jewish.
