Nickelodeon

• The Shorty Awards celebrated its milestone anniversary at a live event in New York City on Wednesday, May 24th, 2023.
• The internet’s preeminent annual awards program announced the winners and honorees of the 15th Annual Shorty Awards in 148 categories, including brands, agencies, non-profits and independent creators.
• Additionally, a new $100,000 fund for creators was announced in partnership with Wave , the one-stop money management solution for small business owners.
• Digital talent has spawned a new era of entrepreneurship, and creators have become the fastest-growing type of small business.

• NEW YORK, May 22, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Nickelodeon today announced the U.S. launch of Our World , a brand-new global initiative to inspire kids and provide them with tools to activate their individual and collective agency.
• The multiplatform initiative, which will live across the Nickelodeon's linear, digital and social platforms, will be supported across Paramount Global divisions.
• Our World will launch in the United Kingdom and Mexico later this year, and in additional markets through 2024.
• Nickelodeon asked kids if they felt they could effect change; almost half (46%) said they felt like they could not.

• LOS ANGELES and NEW YORK, May 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- CultureFly has teamed up with Nickelodeon, Paramount Consumer Products and toy industry legend James Groman to create a unique and exciting large format Reptar collectible!
• Standing at 12" tall the soft vinyl Reptar figure articulates, features striking detail, and will be available for pre-order in a unique airbrushed colorway at limited quantities.
• "My son and daughter were very young when they used to watch Rugrats on Nickelodeon, so I must have seen every episode back in the day," said James Groman.
• Complementing the figure and rounding out the capsule are two t-shirts and a button-up woven shirt featuring illustrations also designed by James Groman.

• Upon arrival, those signals were amplified and their messages were “aired” into our lives.
• Those invisible signals provided our kitchens, living rooms and bedrooms with access to jazz clubs, baseball stadiums and symphony halls.
• Radio and television fostered an ephemeral and invisible public arena that expanded our understanding of the world – and ourselves.

Demise of shared moments

• In the era of TV and radio dominance, “mass media” was defined by shared experiences.
• The shared moments that electrified and unified the nation – from President Franklin Roosevelt’s fireside chats to TV news coverage of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination and up through the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks – have become more rare.
• People get their news about presidential elections from sources with radically different perspectives on what used to be shared facts.

How to remember

• The goal of the conference, convened by the Library of Congress’ Radio Preservation Task Force, is to begin envisioning the future of this technology’s past.
• As a radio historian and member of the Radio Preservation Task Force, I was invited to serve on the conference organizing team.
• Panels, papers and presentations will look at how broadcasting is currently being archived, and how we, as a society, can think more systematically and formally about how we’ll remember broadcasting.

‘Essential’ first step

• The Radio Preservation Task Force is concerned with the diverse universe of broadcasting, including the many types of stations and networks that defined American broadcasting.
• The conference also includes discussion of international and global radio communities, with scholars presenting on broadcasting history from France, Germany and Latin America.
• Recognizing the need to preserve radio and TV’s past marks an essential first step, so that the future will be properly informed about how we lived and communicated for over a century of American history.