What's the Word?
 Producer: Sally Placksin
Associate Producer: Lee Morgan
Modern Language Associatio

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What's the Word? is a half hour weekly radio program from the Modern Language Association. It was developed to show how the study of language and literature enriches people's lives. Programs cover a wide range of topics and is carried by public and community radio stations across the country.

DCI developed the systems necessary for the quick turn around of a weekly radio program. Masters ship to DCI from the New York studios, and within 48 hours program discs are shipped to stations. DCI also maintains the “What’s the Word?” database of carrier stations, and also handles the creation of archival copies of the programs for the Modern Language Association.
 

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Digital Chips Media Production Media Production
 DCI is responsible for duplicating the programs for radio distribution as well as the MLA archives.
Digital Chips Printing Services Printing Services
 DCI developed, along with the program’s producers, the design of the CD labels. Each disc is printed in full color directly on the face with logo and program information.
Digital Chips Fulfillment & Mailing Fulfillment & Mailing
 DCI is responsible for the timely shipment of the programs, as well as maintaining the master database of stations for “What’s the Word?
  Track Listings:

WHAT’S THE WORD? CD Projects Complete Seasons (26 programs on 13 CDs)
2005 Broadcast Year - 26 Programs

Complete Seasons (26 programs on 13 CDs)
2004 Broadcast Year - 26 Programs

Complete Seasons (26 programs on 13 CDs)
2003 Broadcast Year - 26 Programs

Complete Seasons(26 programs on 13 CDs)
2002 Broadcast Year - 26 Programs

Special Programs

2003 Black History Month - Four Programs
2002 Halloween Special - Four Programs
2002 Black History Month - Four Programs

Archival Replication

Program #174 Famous Love Letters
Program #173 Catholic, Jew, and Muslim in Shakespeare's Writings
Program #172 Contemporary Women Playwrights
Program #171 Famous Speeches
Program #170 How Language Changes
Program #169 The Spanish Ballad Tradition
Program #168 Ballad as History
Program #167 Don Juan Myth
Program #157 - Murder at Home: Domestic Tragedy on the Renaissance Stage
Program #156 - Contemporary Indian Fiction in English
Program #155 - Charles Dicken's A Christmas Carol
Program #154 - The Battle of the Books
Program #153 - Caribbean Literature in English
Program #152 - Booker Prize Winners
Program #151 - Great French Films
Program # 146 - Puerto Rican Literature on the Island and in the United States
Program #144 - Fathers
Program #143 - Lost Homelands
Program #142 - Literature of Friendship
Program #141 - The Harry Potter Phenomenon
Program #140 - Politics and Literature
Program #139 - Landscapes in Literature
Program #138 - Divided Cities
Program #137 - W.E.B. Dubois
Program #136 - The Avant-Garde
Program #135 - The Battle for the Vernacular
Program #134 - The Fascination of Faust
Program #127 - American Musicals
Program #126 - Immigrant Filmmakers
Program #117 - Ballad Opera
Program #114 - Regional Literature in the U.S., Volume III: The South
Program #113 - Reading Groups
Program #112 - Regional Literature in the U.S., Volume II: The Midwest
Program #111 - Rereading, Vol. II
Program #110 - Regional Literature in the U.S., Volume I: New England
Program #109 - Women's Life Writing

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