Imaging Guru Nick Michaels To Address TRS
Nick Michaels set for Friday luncheon presentation

By Al Peterson R&R
News/Talk Editor alpeterson@rronline.com

Nick Michaels, President of American Voice Corp., will address attendees at R&R's Talk Radio Seminar in Washington, DC on Friday, Feb. 22. Often referred to as "the whisper that screams," Michaels will offer an exclusive presentation entitled "Making Messages for the Over-Communicated World." The discussion will focus on ways News/Talk management and programming executives can develop more effective imaging campaigns for their stations. Michaels' voice has appeared in ad campaigns for General Motors, Coca-Cola and Excedrin. He is also the co-creator and former host of NBC-TV's Friday Night Videos, and as the voice of CNN's image advertising for several of the network's program.

Donaldson Joins TRS Lineup
ABC vet to go one-on-one with DC newsmaker

By Al Peterson R&R
News/Talk Editor alpeterson@rronline.com

Veteran ABC newsman Sam Donaldson has been added to the lineup of speakers scheduled to appear at R&R's seventh annual Talk Radio Seminar. Donaldson will host a live, one-on-one interview with a "surprise guest" Washington, DC newsmaker at a general session exclusively for attendees set for Saturday morning, Feb. 23.
Well-known for his television work as co-host of This Week With Sam Donaldson and Cokie Roberts, Donaldson makes no secret of his lifelong love affair with radio - the medium in which he began his career, as a DJ in El Paso. He also worked at KRLD/Dallas and WTOP/Washington before joining ABC News, where he has been a mainstay for 35 years. During his 3 1/2 decades with ABC, Donaldson was twice the network's chief White House correspondent, covering Presidents Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton. He has covered virtually every major news event since the Vietnam War and interviewed literally dozens of national and world leaders during his tenure with ABC News.
Following the events of Sept. 11, 2001, Donaldson returned to radio on a regular basis as the host of Sam Donaldson Live in America, a daily, two-hour, call-in talk show featuring interviews with newsmakers of the day and a discussion of current world and national events. He also writes and broadcasts a daily radio commentary each weekday for the ABC Radio Network and is the host of SamDonaldson@abcnews.com, the first regularly scheduled Internet webcast produced by a major television network.

Parikhal To Keynote TRS 2002
Futurist will explore 'what's next' for N/T

By Al Peterson R&R
News/Talk Editor alpeterson@rronline.com

Joint Communications CEO John Parikhal will present the keynote address at R&R's upcoming Talk Radio Seminar, Feb. 21-23, 2002 in Washington, DC. Parikhal's exclusive presentation will set the tone for TRS 2002 as attendees to R&R's seventh annual gathering of News/Talk radio executives and professionals from across the country seek answers and direction in the post-Sept. 11 world.
"There's a lot of fear and uncertainty out there," says Parikhal about his presentation, entitled "What's Next and What Can You Do About It?" "Whether you're the boss or the bossed, we all want to know, 'What's going to happen next? What do people want, and what can we do about it?'"
For a quarter of a century Parikhal has been legendary for "looking over the hill"; a "practical" futurist who has helped his clients make billions by capitalizing on emerging trends. His media-strategy company, which has helped literally hundreds of radio stations to achieve success, has also worked with a distinguished roster of other clients, including Rolling Stone magazine, MTV, Wendy's, S.C. Johnson, Molson, CBS, ABC and many others throughout the U.S., Canada, Australia, Europe and South America. Most recently Parikhal put his experience to work to engineer the rebirth and extraordinary success of VH1. Familiar to R&R readers as a regular contributor through his column, The Competitive Edge, Parikhal is also the author of The Baby Boom: Making Sense of Our Generation at 40 , a book based on the most extensive study ever conducted of Baby Boomers as they turned 40 years old.

CBS News anchor Charles Osgood will be the recipient of the 2002 R&R News/Talk Lifetime Achievement Award at February 2002's R&R Talk Radio Seminar in Washington, DC. The audience for his "The Osgood File" daily commentary on the CBS Radio Network is among the largest drawn by any network-radio feature. Osgood is well known to News/Talk radio fans as the anchor and writer of The Osgood File as well as for his daily news commentaries on the CBS Radio Network. He is also a familiar face to millions of television viewers as the weekly anchor of CBS News Sunday Morning, a position he has held since 1994.
The award-winning journalist has received numerous honors for his work, including no less than five “Best in the Business” awards from the Washington Journalism Review , a 1999 Radio Mercury Award, a 1996 ASCAP President’s Award and a 1993 Marconi Radio Award. Osgood has also won three Peabody awards, one for his work on Sunday Morning and two for Newsmark, the weekly CBS Radio public-affairs broadcast.
Osgood has been a part of CBS News since 1967, serving first as an anchor/reporter for the network’s New York City all-News flagship, WCBS-AM, then moving to the network in 1971. Prior to joining CBS Osgood spent four years as a general assignment editor for ABC and before that was the PD and manager of WGMS-AM/Washington.
“Charles Osgood is one of the real legends in radio,” CBS News Radio VP Harvey Nagler said when asked about what Osgood means to the radio network. “Mention his name, and faces light up with a broad smile. His name is synonymous with great storytelling.”
R&R’s annual Talk Radio Seminar will take place February 21-23, 2002 at Washington, DC’s Marriott at Metro Center.

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