Consulting:

Wrestling with a grant proposal? Or setting out on a new production? Murray Street can help you define the job, identify resources and make choices that will strengthen your programming for funders, listeners and stations in a competitive market. Give us a call. We won’t waste your time or ours.

How do I make my program stand out in a waterfall of grant applications? How do I make a production budget that is fair to me and to my funders? How can I reach new audience through emerging media? How can I make the most effective use of my marketing dollars? How can I work with my local public radio station? How can I cost-effectively produce a live event for broadcast or webcast?

Our consulting clients have included:

America Abroad Media
Consulted regarding design and marketing of America Abroad radio specials/series.

Association of Independents in Radio (AIR)  
Production and Marketing Mentor Program (continuing)
Producers Summit (Chicago) – director
Producers Intensive (San Francisco ) – director

Corporation for Public Broadcasting  
Radio programming grants – panel
Radio “futures” meetings – consultant
CPB Digital Audio Broadcast Task Force w/Paul Bortz – researcher/co-author

Eduard Van Bienum Institute – Royal Concertgebuow, Amsterdam & VPRO Radio  
Composing the Radio – 14 day Seminar leader – (Breukelyn, CH)

FestivaLink.net 
Developing live performance content for audio download service.

Festival Productions Inc. 
Concert production / stage management (NY, New Orleans, Philadelphia)
Road manage tours Europe / Scandinavia (B.B. King, Fats Domino, Michael Brecker et al.)

Integrated Media Association  
Consulting producer of IMA Conferences in San Francisco (2005) and Seattle (2006).

Ithaca College – Park School of Communications 
Skip Landen Fellow – Broadcast writing and production: teaching and lectures
(Ithaca, New York)

Independent Television Service (ITVS) –
Declarations  
ITVS coordinating producer & project consulting for this groundbreaking 3-part PBS series, produced by Rich O’Regan, et al. at Claypoint. (New York)

Jazz at Lincoln Center  
Frederick P. Rose Hall (opened Fall ’04)
Planning / design consultant, broadcast, internet and recording facility

Media Rites  
Consult on contract development anddistribution plan for Crossing East, Peabody Award-winning documentary.
Sat on National Advisory Board, 2006.

The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) –
Los Angeles 
Consult and develop budgets, hosts content and distribution for
The Territory of Art with Eric Bogosian
The Territory of Art with Whoopi Goldberg

National Endowment for the Arts  
Media and radio grants panels.

National Endowment for the Humanities  
Radio consultant – grant programs development
Radio grants panel

National Foundation for Jewish Culture 
Developing national programming in connection with
the Jewish music diaspora
350 year celebration of Jewish culture in America.

New York State Council on the Arts 
Media and music programs consultant
Radio/media grants panel.

PRSS – Public Radio Satellite System
NPR Board Distribution Interconnection Committee – (member 2 terms).

New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival 
International Pavilion – (Mali, West Africa / New Orleans) – director
Night Concerts – (New Orleans) production management
Jazz Tent – (New Orleans) production management

PricewaterhouseCoopers  
Strategic consultation on, and production of, innovative podcasts on a range of business subjects.

Symphony Space
Symphony Space Live, develop new model for multi-platform distribution.
Coordinate 12-hour broadcast and recording of Wall to Wall Sondheim with XM Satellite Radio, WNYC Public Radio, and Effanel Music.
Coordinate broadcast and recording of Wall to Wall Opera with WQXR Radio.
Systems specification and integration, concert recording facilities Peter Jay Sharpe Theatre with Palmer Grassi Recording.

WCPN / WVIZ (Cleveland)
Radio documentary co-production development.

Western Public Radio (San Francisco)
Recording and production workshops.

WWOZ – New Orleans
Live broadcast production consultants
Recording and production workshops.

The Week Magazine
Developing radio programming elements in cooperation with publisher and editorial staff of weekly news magazine.

WXPN
Consultation on development of live local performance program with Kelly Writers House.