{"id":882,"date":"2018-03-02T17:31:08","date_gmt":"2018-03-02T17:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastandardnewspaper.com\/staging\/news\/business-1\/morris-media-studios-gives-the-community-a-voice\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T23:46:37","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T23:46:37","slug":"morris-media-studios-gives-the-community-a-voice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastandardnewspaper.com\/staging\/news\/business-1\/morris-media-studios-gives-the-community-a-voice\/","title":{"rendered":"Morris Media Studios gives the community a voice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The Internet radio and podcast studio, located on Crenshaw Blvd. and 43rd Street, helps locals broadcast their messages to the masses.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-876\" src=\"https:\/\/lastandardnewspaper.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/6S8R9978-web.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lastandardnewspaper.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/6S8R9978-web.jpg 900w, https:\/\/lastandardnewspaper.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/6S8R9978-web-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lastandardnewspaper.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/6S8R9978-web-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><figcaption><em><strong>Hosts Jamal Jones and Patricia Diggs (center) have a conversation with guest A. Lenise Kouture at &ldquo;The Town Hall Cafe,&rdquo; which is recorded at Morris Media Studios.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure>&nbsp;<\/figure>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">By Megan Reed<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Major television networks and radio stations have been utilizing podcasts for a couple decades now, but locals, community leaders, and business owners do not have to work for a large media company to get on the airwaves. &nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Morris Media Studios is making it easy for anybody to host an Internet radio show. &nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">&ldquo;I like to say that Morris Media Studio is giving the community a voice,&rdquo; said Felicia&nbsp;<span data-offset-key=\"fsure-0-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">&#8220;The Poetess&#8221;<\/span><\/span> Morris, owner of Morris Media Studios.&nbsp; &ldquo;We do live audio and video podcasting, we do voice overs, and we hold workshops here to teach people how to podcast.&nbsp; We have over 20 podcasts here, and we&rsquo;re working to build a Black talk network.&rdquo;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The podcasts recorded at Morris Media Studios cover many topics, including sports, comedy, business, and community events.&nbsp; People can lease time to broadcast on their own Internet platform, or the podcasts can be broadcast on Morris Media Studios&rsquo; website. &nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The most popular podcasts are &ldquo;The G Spot,&rdquo; hosted by comedians Precious &amp; Kamira, and &ldquo;In a Man&rsquo;s World,&rdquo; hosted by comedians Lewis Dix, Jeff Arnold, and TDP.&nbsp; &ldquo;The BusinessZone&rdquo; with Crystal Mitchell and Gilbert Buchanan gives entrepreneurs business tips, and &ldquo;Town Hall Cafe,&rdquo; hosted by Patricia Diggs and Jamal Jones, covers community politics.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Podcasts are a great way for local businesses and people who offer services to promote themselves.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">&ldquo;We encourage small businesses, because I feel that podcasting is a great tool,&rdquo; Morris said.&nbsp; &ldquo;It allows people to get information and educate people about your business.&rdquo; &nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The studio hosts introduction to podcasting workshops twice a month.&nbsp; These workshops shows people how to host a podcast, how to market it, and how to make money from Internet radio.&nbsp; Morris envisions the studio becoming a broadcast academy in the future, where people can learn the radio business. &nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">People do not have to have any experience to host a podcast, and Morris provides an engineer for every show.&nbsp; She has nearly 30 years of experience in the radio business.&nbsp; Her father, Johnny Morris, was a radio personality in the San Francisco Bay area, and she broke into the business when she moved to Los Angeles in the 1980&rsquo;s.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Morris worked at 92.3 The Beat for 13 years, and she worked with Jamie Foxx on the Sirius radio show &ldquo;The Foxx Hole.&rdquo;&nbsp; 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