CELEBRATE RADIO is a new and very different and much needed national full-time

non-profit satellite radio network to focus on society's needs while entertaining people and working, unlike other media, to unite us..

 (Newtown as well as the division in our country has stirred up feelings and vision first awoken in us when we were at Columbine High School that tragic week in 1999 and we got to know the parents and siblings of many of the teenagers killed during that tragedy. We produced two national radio specials with them a few years after that,  began an acclaimed, uplifting weekly music and interview show, Reaching Up. We also added 25 more web sites serving children, youth and families including the only national minority youth resource sites (3 separate sites) through our non-profit Streetcats Foundation and produced/distributed to AM and FM stations a series of multi-organization radio psas in the fight against poverty, violence, AIDS, hunger, child abuse and teen addiction. We also continued to start a dozen more of our Teen-Anon groups, the only national 12-step fellowship for addicted teenagers.)

 We are now getting very close to starting the first national public radio network since NPR three decades ago but one very different from and far more passionate than either NPR or all the commercial networks that proliferate today...an entertaining and uplifting network concentrating on the changes we all know are needed in America and the world (and Gandhi's concept of being the change we want to see); a network that is 24/7 across the country as well as Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean and Australia on Galaxy 19 satellite and everywhere else on the web, on smart phones, laptops and tablets...

We now need help to get into Phase 2'updating and launching the 24/7 web stream so it can be heard on the web and smart phone apps, in preparation for 24/7 coast-to-coast broadcast on satellite to 6 million people.

Celebrate Radio is a network unlike any other with no political slant, no gossip, no excluding people, no focus at all on people arguing or on reporting sensational violence and scandal or division, a full-time network  that unites people, while concentrating on hope and ways to solve problems---not with sound bytes but sufficiently long (15-25 minute) interviews, many shorter daily features and brief newscasts throughout the day , TED Talks including Bono, speakers who are Nobel Peace Prize winners and take part in the Clinton Global Initiatives, as well as our own exclusive inspirational concerts and contemporary music playlist (1700 songs). Most of all, on satellite, the web, tablets and smartphones, we are ready after 3 years to begin to broadcast 24 hours a day what's needed more than ever to passionately inspire us again and to unite us in and foster compassionate action..... while also providing 24 hrs a day of uplifting music and other entertainment for a diverse audience of all faiths!

Added to programming are all of our own dozens of full (as well as excerpted) in-person interviews with people like Dr. Wess Stafford CEO Compassion International, Pastor Rick and Kay Warren, Mississippi civil rights pioneer Hollis Watkins, U.S. Fund for UNICEF CEO Caryl Stern, Saved By the Light author Dannion Brinkley, Gandhi grandson Arun Gandhi, Not for Sale

Wolpe, Lebanese pastor Faoud Masri, Israeli stars Idan Raichel and Rami Kleinstein and Jewish contemporary stars Craig Taubman, Rick Recht, Sam Glaser and the Yeshiva Boys Choir, Christian contemporary stars including Newsboys, Martin Smith of Delirious, Natalie Grant, Darlene Zchech of Hillsong, Mercy Me, The African Childrens Choir and Soweto Gospel Choir, Northern Ireland singing sensations The Priests, social activist musicians Tom Paxton and Peter Yarrow of Peter Paul and Mary, Kevin Palau, Latoya Greaves at dresshead, Vicar Nicky Gumbel, filmmakers Austin Vickers, Dan Merchant and David DeSabitino, Peace Child Israel director Melisse Boskavich and dozens more!,

You can also hear a selection of those interviews at www.reachingup2.podomatic.com  and www.donunplugged.podomatic.com  and www.lchaim.podomatic.com and a preview audio "demo" of Celebrate Radio with numerous broadcast excerpts.

 We have already completed most of the programming and all station imaging....the professional announcer and 'celebrity' station ids and jingles to give Celebrate Radio an exciting sound, along with our own 1700 song eclectic and uplifting Positively Music pop song mix not only from the U.S. but 12 other countries; also, a mix of highly enjoyable interviews, features and music already 'tested' on-the-air weekly for 5 years and raved about by our audiences (see 'what our listeners say' on the Celebrate Radio web site! We have 49 programs and 20 daily features already and 12 brief newscasts a day ! The NPR-style sponsor breaks will be just 2.5 minutes per hour, instead of the up-to-24 minute commercials on most TV and radio these days. And the low, low cost of running this national and later, international satellite network  (under $25,000 a year, assures sustainability!

On satellite alone, it will be heard by 6 million people across the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Caribbean and much of Australia and everywhere on the web, as well as smartphones and tablets.  

(In a later phase, we will also broadcast on the Hotbird 6 satellite DTH to all of Europe and the Middle East as we do across North America on the Galaxy 19 satellite!)

 Celebrate Radio, as a full-time, 24/7 national satellite radio network, will harness the great power of mass media to do really good things to foster change, while uplifting people with positives and keeping the focus on social justice.......We are already mostly (90%) programmed, except for a month of updates we want to make to our web stream on servers in Fremont California and Milan Italy.

 Our award-winning weekly hit satellite program, Reaching Up, will spin-off a second weekly series called And Justice for All that will be broadcast on 2 more satellite networks as well as be distributed to FM stations through NPR's PRSS distribution system and PRX.Program Exchange.

 As we're doing all the above, we'll be working to syndicate the weekly shows to more AMs and FMs, which will help draw listeners to the 24/7 satellite radio network(s).

 We are now in Phase 2 of the project, having funded all of the considerable Phase 1 ourselves.

 There are NO salaries included, just minimal expenses.

 Now we need immediate help with phase 2 and later, phase 3:

 PHASE 2

 $ 585.00 month $3,500.00 6 MONTHS

gets the weekly show on an additional coast-to-coast secular satellite radio network, gets the new weekly program And Justice for All, our newest weekly series, broadcast on satellite as well, gets We Can Matter   transcripts done for an interview e-book  gets the 24/7 web stream running again so we can take a few months to greatly update it with new material according to an expanded vision and fix any technical kinks and it gives us a little added money we need to survive. Phase 2 also lets other potential funders , sponsors and journalists (for publicity) actually hear Celebrate Radio 24/7 whenever they want, while starting to build a 24/7 audience on the web, tablets and smartphones as we promote it on the weekly broadcasts! We can get along with half that small funding now (about $1900) and half a few months ago if need be.

 OR

 PHASE 2 INTERMEDIATE COMBINED WITH PARTIAL  PHASE 3

 $ 585 a month $3500 6 months WITH $1485 4 months = $8900.00

does all the above AND gives us 4 months testing on our own 24/7 satellite network nationally as we pick up sponsors and performance revenue from already committed performance sponsors..

 OR

 PHASE 2 AND 3 COMPLETE

 $ 1485.00 month $16,000.00 12 months

gives us everything for 12 months including the full service 24/7 Galaxy 19 coast to coast satellite network of our own

 A LATER PHASE 4   an additional $14,000 a year

Duplicates al l the above, additionally, ALSO ON HOTBIRD 6 SATELLITE,

REACHING ALL OF THE UK, EUROPE, RUSSIA AND THE ENTIRE MIDDLE EAST

FOR A TOTAL YEARLY BUDGET OF $30,000 .some of it sustained by sponsors and underwriters.

Please contact us for sponsorships, donations and programming at don@celebrateradio.com and ycn5@yahoo.com   Our paypal ID can be accessed by clicking the DONATE button on streetcats.org or celebrateradio.com