The Hellenic Public Radio-Cosmos FM will give its 27th annual Phidippides Award to the American Hellenic Educational Progressive Association (Order of AHEPA) to recognize the organization’s efforts to promote Hellenism in light of its 100th anniversary this year.
Since 1994, the Board of Directors of GAEPIS, Inc. and its flagship radio service, Hellenic Public Radio-Cosmos FM, have presented the Phidippides Award to a person or an organization in recognition of their efforts in the advocacy of Hellenism. The award was inspired by the ancient Athenian herald of the same name
Recipients of the Phidippides Award have dedicated themselves to sustaining Greek culture, traditions and civilization.
This year’s Phiddipides Award Gala will take place on November 4 at Terrace on the Park in Queens, New York. The event includes a gala dinner and youth party and features affiliate organizations of AHEPA such as the Sons of Pericles and Maids of Athena.
This year marks Cosmos FM’s 36th year of service in promoting and preserving Greek heritage. The station broadcasts under the aegis of the Greek American Educational Public Information System, a not-for-profit media, educational organization founded in 1987.
Cosmos FM is the only daily, bilingual non-commercial Greek radio program in the New York Metropolitan Area. The station has more than 5,000 supporting members and reaches more than 200,000 listeners each week.
By providing various programs in English and Greek, Cosmos FM seeks to address the needs of immigrants from Greece and Cyprus, Americans of Greek descent and philhellenes.
Cosmos FM provides 13 hours of programming per week for 676 annual hours of broadcasting time. It features 20-plus different programs in Greek and English, including local, national and international news. The radio covers issues pertaining to Greece and Cyprus including politics, science, social issues, religion, health, finance, music, arts, sports and community affairs. All programs are primarily produced by volunteers.
Previous recipients of the Phidippides Award include Jules Dassin and the Melina Mercouri Foundation; Mikis Theodorakis; Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki; Dimitrios and Georgia Kaloidis; Michael Cacoyiannis; John and Margo Catsimatides; Dennis Mehiel; A. S. Onassis Foundation; Professor Edmund Keely; Senator Paul S. Sarbanes; Kyriakos Tsakopoulos; Dr. John Brademas; Socrates Kokkalis; Dr. Konstantinos Papadakis; Ted Spyropoulos; Yannis Markopoulos; Mario Frangoulis; Nikos Mouyiaris; Merkourios Angeliadis; Michael Psaros; Archbishop Elpidophoros of America; The Hellenic Medical Society of New York and Andrew Manatos.
