Best Beginnings

Public Service Announcements

To help spread the word to the public about the importance of early learning and literacy, Best Beginnings produces and distributes public service announcements for television and radio broadcast in communities all over the state.

Radio spots are available in both audio format and script.  Please contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. , (907) 297-3300, if you have any questions or to request broadcast copies of video PSAs.

Please visit the Best Beginnings YouTube Channel to view all videos and video PSAs.

TV Public Service Announcements (Video)

"It all starts in the puppy pen” – Four-time Iditarod champ Martin Buser is hitting Alaska’s TV airwaves on behalf of Best Beginnings and early learning. He and local video company Sprocketheads donated their time to produce the spot.  View PSA >>

• Importance of Everyday Activities
• The Importance of Adding Sounds
• Technology Can't Take the Place of Attention
• The Importance of Culture and Language
• The Best Teacher
• Building brains through repetition
• Brain-building activities
• The key to language development
• It's Your Business
• Growing the Economy
• A Smart Investment
• Alaska Imagination Library

Current Radio PSAs (mp3 audio files)

• Good Advice (:29)
• Think and Cope (:30)
• Babies on Track (:29)

Radio PSA Scripts (PDF files)

•  Jan 1 - March 31, 2012
• Oct. 1 - Dec. 31, 2011
•  July - September 2011
•  April - June 2011
•  January - March 2011
•  October - December 2010
•   July - September 2010
•   April - June 2010
•   January - March 2010
•   October - December 2009
•   Imagination Library
•   July - October 2009
•   April - June 2009
•   January - March 2009
•   October - December 2008
•   August - September 2008
•   July 2008
•   May 2008
•   April 2008
•   March 2008
•   February 2008
•   January 2008
•   May - December 2007

Archived Radio PSAs (mp3 audio files)

• Family gatherings (:30)
• Family stories (:30)
• Music & language (:28)
• Nature vs. Nurture (:30)
• Winter activities (:28)
• Spoil’ them with attention (:30)
• Ready for Kindergarten (:28)
• What is early learning? (:28)
• Get outside (:29)
• Family-friendly work place (:30)
•  Personal Responsibility (:28)
•  Challenging behaviors (:26)
•  Good parenting (:30)
•  Smart phones (:25)
•  Child born today (:29)
•  Reading (:26)
•  Magic of rhymes (:25)
•  Pig Latin (:30)
•  The importance of sound (:29)
• 700 Neurons
• Patient Capital
• Interactions
• Magic
• Serve and Return
• It's Summer!
• Play it again, Sam
• Babbling
• Friendships
• Partnerships
• Heckman
• Range of skills
• Child born today
• Babies Must Hear Language to Speak
• Brain Growth
• Smart Investment
• Nursery Rhymes
• Workout Partner
• Child Care
• New Learning
• Kindergarten
• Economy
• Imagination Library
• Business
• How it Works
• New Experiences
• Listen to Feelings
• Walk on the Wild Side
• Ready for School
• Imagination Library
• Everybody's Business
• Play is Children's Work
• Smart Economic Investment
• Take a vacation
• Babies are Wired to Learn
• Brain Cell Workout Partner
• Active Listening
• Read to your Child
• Economics of Early Learning
• Economic Hard Times and Early Learning
• Nothing like a Good Book: Reading to Babies
• Talk, Listen and Play, 0-6
• Play List: Building Skills
• Formal Schooling vs. Brain Development
• Hands-on Experience
• Repetition
• Bigger Vocabularies
• Between the Lions

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