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MPC
37 Goes to Germany
Georg Hirsch, a freelance music correspondent for the German Public Broadcast
network ARD who is based in Alexandria, Virginia, covered the Music Personnel
Conference last February in San Antonio and reported on it for the spring
issue of Music Notes. His reports and interviews were also well
covered in Germany, as his report reveals:
“My stories about AMPPR and
MPC 37 were broadcast on:
NDR Hamburg:
3 stories, 6-1/2 minutes each, from different angles
WDR Dortmund:
1 story, 7 minutes
DLR Berlin: 1 story,
6-1/2 minutes (received nationwide via cable!)
HR Frankfurt:
1 story, 9-1/2 minutes
SWR Baden-Baden:
1 story, 8-1/2 minutes
Radio Bremen: 1 story,
6 minutes
BR Munich:
20-minute feature
Deutsche Welle:
20-minute feature
Two telephone interviews I did from San Antonio: one was for MDR Leipzig
and one for BR Munich. In these cases, anchor people called me at my hotel
room from Germany, asking questions about the conference and its meaning,
with an emphasis on ‘classical radio on the internet,’ so their questions
and my answers were heard on air.
Since each station covers one of the German states, in addition to parts
of neighboring states, every household in Germany had a chance to hear
about the conference, as long as they had tuned in to the program.”
Our
thanks to Georg Hirsch for his coverage for Music Notes and for his reports
in Germany. He proved to be a terrific public relations person for
AMPPR!
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