Entercom Announces Live Two-Hour Broadcast of “I’m Listening” Special for Mental Health Awareness & Suicide Prevention ...
August 27 2018 - 4:05PM
Business Wire
Pearl Jam, Michael Phelps, Mike Shinoda from
Linkin Park and Alessia Cara to Participate in On-Air Broadcast on
September 9 to Kick Off National Suicide Prevention Week
Entercom announced today a two-hour live commercial-free
broadcast special to raise awareness around mental health and
suicide prevention as part of its multi-platform “I’m Listening”
campaign. The “I’m Listening” broadcast will air across all of the
company’s stations nationwide on Sunday, September 9 at 7:00 a.m.
in their respective time zone, and via their livestreams on
Radio.com, to mark the start of National Suicide Prevention Week.
The year-long campaign also includes suicide prevention PSAs,
on-air promos and a dedicated website with information and
resources to end the stigma around mental health discussions.
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The special will be led on-air by BJ Shea, on-air personality
for 99.9 KISW (KISW-FM) in Seattle, and will highlight personal
stories from artists and celebrities. Guests will include medical
experts Dr. Chris Nowinski, co-founder and executive director of
Concussion Legacy Foundation and Dr. Ursula Whiteside, clinical
psychologist, CEO of NowMattersNow.org. Listeners will have the
opportunity to participate via a live call-in option and
interactive website.
Musicians and celebrities connected to the cause will also join
the conversation about mental health. Guests scheduled to join the
program include Mike McCready and Stone Gossard, Pearl Jam; Michael
Phelps, Olympic swimmer and 23-time gold medal winner; Mike
Shinoda, Linkin Park; Alessia Cara, Grammy Award-winning artist;
Jared Leto, Academy Award-winning actor and lead singer of Thirty
Seconds To Mars; Bebe Rexha; Charlie Puth; Stone Temple Pilots;
Brantley Gilbert; Lzzy Hale, Halestorm; Stephan Jenkins, Third Eye
Blind; and Conor Mason, Nothing But Thieves, among others.
“’I’m Listening’ is one of our signature productions meant to
save lives, while simultaneously creating awareness for this truly
lethal silent threat,” said Pat Paxton, President of Programming,
Entercom. “The number of people impacted by mental health issues is
staggering. The effect it has on their lives, and lives of
their friends and families is devastating. If we help save
just one life or help remove the stigma around mental illness, our
time will have been well spent. We can’t solve this issue
during one program, but we can be part of a vast network working
every day to help and serve those affected.”
In addition to celebrity guests and medical expert interviews,
the special will feature discussions around how to discuss mental
health and suicide with family and friends, what all of us can do
to prevent suicide, what to do if you or someone you know is
struggling with depression, how to get involved in suicide
prevention in your local community and where to go for help.
“I’m thrilled to serve as a medical expert on the live panel for
‘I’m Listening,’” said Dr. Ursula Whiteside. “Hearing stories
about peoples' lives help us understand suicide and suicidal
thoughts, so we can approach this topic with people we care about.
Partnering with Entercom allows us to reach a large nationwide
audience to share insights and information from suicide research
and about brain health and mental wellness. I look forward to
answering questions via phone and providing resources even after
the on-air broadcast has concluded. This is critical given that
suicide is something that 4% of
Americans seriously consider.”
“In my forthcoming album ‘The Pains of Growing,’ I
touch on being lost and lonely and stuck inside my head,” said
Grammy Award-winning artist Alessia Cara. “I’ve recently dealt
with anxiety – and understand what it was. I definitely want
to reach as many people as I can, and will do so by partnering with
Entercom and so many influential names connected to the cause.
Hopefully, if I talk about mental health, it’ll help other people
to talk about it… we’re all a lot more similar than we think we
are.”
Following the suicide of Linkin Park’s Chester Bennington,
bandmate Mike Shinoda released his first solo album, “Post
Traumatic” – “a journey out of grief and darkness – an album
about healing,” said Shinoda. “In most parts of the world, suicide
claims more lives than war, murder and natural disasters combined.
I hope that sharing my personal story, in music and conversation,
helps open up the door to new discussions and awareness about
mental health.”
According to the Center for Disease Control (CDC), suicide is
the 10th leading cause of death in the U.S. More than 50 percent of
people in the U.S. will be diagnosed with a mental illness or
disorder at some point in their life. Approximately one in five
U.S. adults experience mental health issues in a given year, and
one in five children have experienced or will experience mental
illness in their life. Mental health affects everyone regardless of
culture, race, ethnicity, gender or sexual orientation.
For more information about the campaign, please visit
ImListening.org. For photos, click here. Follow the conversation on
Twitter and Instagram (@ImListening_org) using the hashtag
#ImListening.
If someone you know is going through a crisis, please call the
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255) or
contact the Crisis Text Line by texting TALK to 741-741.
Entercom is a leading media and entertainment company and the
nation’s unrivaled leader in news and sports radio.
About Entercom Communications Corp.
Entercom Communications Corp. (NYSE: ETM) is a leading American
media and entertainment company reaching and engaging over 100
million people each week through its premier collection of highly
rated, award winning radio stations, digital platforms and live
events. As one of the country’s two largest radio broadcasters,
Entercom offers integrated marketing solutions and delivers the
power of local connection on a national scale with coverage of
close to 90% of persons 12+ in the top 50 markets. Entercom is the
#1 creator of live, original, local audio content and the nation’s
unrivaled leader in news and sports radio. Learn more about
Philadelphia-based Entercom at www.entercom.com, Facebook and
Twitter (@Entercom).
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