Cartoon Radio Show Joins Cartoon Radio

Press Release from Toon Radio

Buffalo, New York (October 6, 2010) - Toon Radio announces the acquisition of Cartoon Carnival. The internet radio station Toon Radio (toonradio.net) has picked up Cartoon Carnival with Joe Bev for broadcast on its audio stream. Toon Radio will begin airing the show Friday October 8 at 9 pm Eastern. Cartoon Carnival will then run every Friday at 9 pm Easter, with an encore presentation on Mondays at 10 am Eastern.

Cartoon Carnival with Joe Bev, The first radio cartoon show ever, is hosted by Joe Bevilacqua. As the protege of cartoon voice legend Daws Butler (Yogi Bear), the veteran award-winning broadcaster (NPR, XM Radio) Joe Bevilacqua is no stranger to the cartoon world. Joe Bev even co-authored his mentor's authorized biography, "Daws Butler, Characters Actor", available at BearManorMedia.Com.

From Mel Blanc to June Foray, from Disney to Hanna-Barbera, "Cartoon Carnival" is a lively hour of rare and classic cartoon audio, children's records, cartoon music and sound effects, new radio cartoons, interviews and mini-documentaries about the wonderful world of animation.

“Cartoon Carnival” Toon Radio October 2010 Schedule:

Friday, October 8, 2010

Program 1

Host Joe Bevilacqua presents: a tribute to Joe Barbera, featuring Leonard Maltin, Hanna-Barbera cartoon clips and his 1990 interview with Barbera, Mel Blanc's demo tape, Daws Butler in a never-before heard cartoon with Yogi Bear and Huckleberry Hound (1959), Daws Butler teaches Joe Bev how to be a voice actor, part one (1975), a live performance of Jay Ward's "Rocky and Bullwinkle" with June Foray, Joe Bev., Corey Burton, Matt Hurwitz, and Lee Harris, Part one of "Willoughby and the Professor Meet Bartizan the Genie," (1975), the song "The Twitch" from "The Flintstones" (1961), and a parody/tribute to Laurel and Hardy.

Friday, October 15, 2010

Program 2

Host Joe Bevilacqua presents: Audio from TV's "Truth or Consequences" with Bob Barker and Daws Butler (Yogi Bear) from 1960, Stan Freberg in the 1957 Warner Brothers cartoon "Three Lil Bops,", a live performance of Jay Ward's "Fractured Fairy Tales" with June Foray, Joe Bev., Corey Burton, Matt Hurwitz, and Lee Harris, part two of "Willoughby and the Professor Meet Bartizan the Genie," (1975), Daws Butler teaches Joe Bev how to be a voice actor, part two (1975), and Uncle Dunkle and Donnie in "Alexander Remembers" (2009).

Friday, October 22, 2010

Program 3

Host Joe Bevilacqua presents: Part one of a tribute to Bob Clampett's "Time for Beany," an interview with Stan Freberg, a live performance of Jay Ward's "Dudley DooRight" with June Foray, Joe Bev., Corey Burton, Matt Hurwitz, and Lee Harris, part three of "Willoughby and the Professor Meet Bartizan the Genie," (1975), Daws Butler teaches Joe Bev how to be a voice actor, part three (1975), and Uncle Dunkle and Donnie in "Johnny the Giraffe" (2009).

Friday, October 29, 2010

Program 41

"The Cartoon Carnival Halloween Spookatular II" - Guest host Wilfred Graves returns for a second year to present this two-hour special, which will include Joe Bevilacqua and Lorie Kellogg in "A Halloween Happening" by Daws Butler (2010), "A Different Take on Halloween" by Pedro Pablo Sancristan (2010), and Joe Bev. as Harold Peary in "The Attack of the Creepy Crawly Things from Outer Space" (2004), plus June Foray as Witch Hazel and Mel Blanc as Bugs Bunny in the Warner Brother's cartoon "A Witch's Tangled Hare" (1959).

Joe Bevilacqua (Joe Bev.) began hosted his new "Cartoon Carnival" radio show for Shokus Internet Radio on Labor Day 2009, becoming an instant hit and rising to become the 2nd most listened to program on the network. The show was averaging 300 to 500 listeners, and currently has 659 fans on its Facebook page. 

As the protege of cartoon voice legend Daws Butler (Yogi Bear), the veteran award-winning broadcaster (NPR, XM Radio) is no stranger to the cartoon world. Joe Bev even co-authored his mentor's authorized biography, "Daws Butler, Characters Actor", available at BearManorMedia.com.