Talk Radio
WHO WILL IT BE? YOU TELL US: The nomination phase for the Favorite NYC Radio Personality in the 2014 Staten Island Readers' Choice Awards begins Monday, July 21, and runs through Sunday, July 27. Post your candidates in the comments section below. We'll consider your suggestions when determining the finalists.
(Joan Marcus)
Logo for the 2014 Staten Island Readersâ Choice Awards.
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Hey, remember back in 1981, when MTV boldly broadcast its first music video, "Video Killed the Radio Star"?
For a while it looked like that might actually happen, but we refused to let it — because those familiar voices are an indelible part of our daily lives.
From early morning work commutes to late-night sobfests over broken hearts — those radio personalities have always been there for us when we needed them.
Hey, they didn't title that classic 1982 dance jam "Last Night a DJ Saved My Life" for nothing, right?
Sure, radio has changed.
Yes, some of our favorites have bailed on (or been banished from) AM/FM for extra-terrestrial airwaves — but they still have survived to supply us with hours of musical entertainment and sometimes thoughtful (and other times infuriating) talk radio.
And now, we wanna show them some love, too.
That's where you come in. Nominate your Favorite NYC Radio Personality — from old school DJs to Sirius satellite contenders — in the comments section below and tell us why it should be in our final reader ballot.
Your passion matters — we'll select the finalists based on the quantity and quality of those nominations.
Move quickly, however: Nominations close Sunday night. Then, next week, you VOTE for S.I.'s "Favorite NYC Radio Personality."
HOW READERS' CHOICE WORKS:
MONDAY, JULY 21: The nomination phase for the "Favorite NYC Radio Personality" in the 2014 Staten Island Readers' Choice Awards begins Monday, July 21, and runs through Sunday, July 27. Post your candidates in the comments section below. We'll consider your suggestions when determining the finalists.
MONDAY, JULY 28: Best Radio Personality finalists are announced. The voting phase then runs from Monday, July 28, through Sunday, Aug. 3, at SILive.com/readerschoice. Help us get the word out to make sure your favorites get their share of the voting love!
MONDAY, AUG. 4: We announce your winner in the Favorite NYC Radio Personality category at noon Monday, Aug. 4. Later that week, we present the winner with a plaque and window clings. Then the entire process starts all over again with a new category Monday, Aug. 11.
WHAT'S NEXT: After this nominate-vote-win category cycle, we will follow up with a series of additional voting categories celebrating so many aspects of life on S.I.
So dine out. Belly up to a dive bar, cocktail lounge or dance club. Catch some live music and theater. Get a tattoo. Whatever. Just determine the borough's best.
Then nominate and vote for your picks as their respective categories are announced, one by one, on SILive.com.
Feel free to blast social media with calls to vote. Go old school with flyers and distribute them at your fave business. Go door to door. Whatever it takes (within legal and moral reason, of course) to get S.I. some much-deserved recognition is fine with us.
Hey, you have no one to blame but yourself if your personal picks don't own this thing.
EARLY NEXT YEAR: We will publish a compilation of all your categories — and it just might serve as the definitive guide to everything great about Staten Island. Oh, and there will also be a party to honor all of the winners YOU select. More details on that later.
QUESTIONS? Post them in the comments section below or hit me up at bailey@siadvance.com. I'll answer them as soon as possible.