Local Producer Dave Kline recognized with PAB Honor for “Holiday Happiness”

The original Christmas and holiday radio, TV, and internet special “Holiday Happiness”, created by local entertainer Dave Kline, has been honored with a 2020 Excellence in Broadcasting award by the Pennsylvania Association of Broadcasters.

“Holiday Happiness” featured recordings of only local musicians and talent from the Berks County community which were carefully curated, edited and sequenced by Kline. The program has been recognized with a first place honor from the PAB as judged by impartial evaluators and broadcast professionals from other affiliated state organizations.

The Judges Merit category is for creative projects that don’t fit easily into the usual categories of Best Broadcast Team, Best Radio Ad, etc. Twelve hours of the show aired on WEEU and WBYN radio on Sundays, in two hour segments over the 6 weeks leading up to Christmas from a November start date. Thirty additional hours of the show aired on Berks Community Television and BCTV.org nonstop throughout Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, with fanciful, seasonal video scenes added by BCTV. Kline has been making or collecting the recordings included in the compilation over the past 35 years.

“It’s nice to know that the judges deem localism worthy of recognition. Easily more than 100 hours of recording, editing and production work went into what became the final edits of this show,” Kline noted. He began working on editing the series in early October, and continued on diligently, even after a fire destroyed his family home (and studio) on December 14, 2019.