Tai Aguirre
Building the World Wide Expat Community
Kent Lakes, New York, United States |  |
| | | | My Website/My blog | http://www.theexpatshow.com  | | | | My Occupation | President TAICO® PRODUCTIONS CORPORATION. Audio products and services, music production, director of community affairs, promotions, sales and marketing, consulting and original show creation for radio and media.
Present venture: creator and executive pro | | My Company | Taico® Productions Corporation was founded in 2000 and offers audio recording, mixing and mastering services and also operates as a creative, sales and marketing company in the incentive and entertainment industry. At Taico Productions Corporation we believe that above all else our business relationships should always be based on honesty and integrity with loyalty and respect for: The many listeners we depend on for our continued existence. The people who work for us and work with us. The customers we serve.
Taico Productions Corporation aspires to gain a national and international reputation as being a company that demonstrates courtesy, positive values, quality, honesty and integrity. Taico seeks to be regarded as the top in the expat media market by making THE EXPAT SHOW “the expat place to tune in around the world.”
We are dedicated to providing the best in audio production, audio products and services and tangible solutions for our clients. Our customer base was initially centered around the incentive and music business. We have expanded our activities in the radio, television and entertainment industries. Our company won the web site-of-the-year award from Incentive Magazine with its on-line creation INCENTIWEB®, one of the industry’s first web based corporate, promotional and incentive programs. Our company won best new product of the year from New York’s Incentive Show for its “Your Personal Song™,” an all-occasion music production Ebusiness. We are devoted to innovation, results, excellence and exploring new creative frontiers. Our latest creative frontier is creating and producing original programs at WTBQ1110AM radio. Our shows have received accolades and national acclaim. These programs include the original investigative news/talk magazine “Could YOU Be Next?™”, THE TEEN SHOW™ a positive, engaging and fresh presentation about the teenager contribution, hosted by teens. Our latest innovation is THE EXPAT SHOW. This show examines the political, lifestyle, cultural and financial issues surrounding the record numbers of North Americans relocating overseas. With more than 8 million North Americans now living abroad, we believe this new radio venture offers a enormous market opportunity relevant for investors and businesses alike THE EXPAT SHOW™ brings listeners around the world first-hand accounts of expat real-life adventures and experiences along with expat related segments. THE EXPAT SHOW™ provides our listeners with an original entertainment, news talk, and variety format that is not “personality” dependant. Our market niche is global and relatively untouched. We plan to expand our business model and use THE EXPAT SHOW to capitalize on the exploding growth in the global broadcasting market. Over the next five years we will place our focus on production and promotion of THE EXPAT SHOW and its ROI components. Some of these components will include educational books, an on-line store, CDs, videos and seminars. We plan to create and participate in social and networking events, vacation packages, real estate opportunities, financial services and advertising. We will achieve our business expansion by continuing to do what we do best. Produce great programming while building our community throughout local, national and international radio. We plan to put in place the necessary technology and manpower to grow our research, news and promotion capabilities, expand listener-ship reach and increase sales. We plan to attract additional media outlets and public awareness to our show to expand our community and secure a majority of the expat market share. In keeping with changing world conditions that effect expats, we plan to make shifts to our show’s format and product and service line as needed. We will accomplish this by attention to migration trends, global news, people, places and things of interest to expats and upgrading our technology. We also plan to invest in those who represent one of our most important assets, the independent guests and experts we feature on our show.
Although we provide them promotional support and recognition, we plan to implement financial compensation and a position in the company’s market share. In the marketing area we plan to expand our participation in expat events and further promote our image throughout the world. | | My Expertise | | Building the World Wide Expat Community | | | | My Experience | Director of Community Affairs at ABC radio affiliate WTBQ110AM NY/NJ
* Address local Rotary Club, business groups, various school and community organizations about WTBQ’s programming, features and benefits.
* Selling advertising airtime for selected feature and general programming to local and national businesses.
* Liaison between Sales Manager and Programming Director assisting in the promotion and coordination of various station events.
* Creator and Executive Producer for original programs THE TEEN SHOW™ hosted and run by teenagers. TTS features positive role models and a platform to express teen issues and ideas. Could YOU Be Next? the news stories the main stream media won’t dare talk about. THE EXPAT SHOW™ program for and about those who have taken up residence overseas.
*On-Air Host for Could YOU Be Next? and THE EXPAT SHOW™
*Investigative reporter and responsible for all research, original music, format and content for these shows. Further information can be found at www.taicoproductions.com, www.couldyoubenext.com, www.theteenshow.com and www.theexpatshow.com
Columnist and sales representative for the Trade Union Courier. A NYC based national newspaper for the trade union movement. | | | | My Awards and Achievements | PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Musician and contributing composer/producer for Off Broadway Musical Cabaret and CD production of Broadway Moon Song Shoppe. Composer and producer for all music for the radio programs created by Taico Productions.
Best New Product Award at 1996 Premium Incentive Show Javits Center NYC for creating “Your Personal Song™” Writing and producing original music for any occasion.
Best New Product Award at 1998 Premium Incentive Show Javits center NYC for creating INCENTIWEB® One of the first in the incentive industry to create corporate, promotional and incentive programs on-line. | | | | Languages Known | | English, Spanish | | | | Education | | # | Name of School/College/Institution | Degree Awarded |
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| 1. | American Musical and Dramatic Academy | Diploma | | 2. | Empire State College | |
| | Other Education or Training | | Business first hand experience | | | | My Bio | Radio Personality-Producer, Journalist, Business owner, Music Producer and Composer
Ten years ago, producer Tai Aguirre decided to leave the hustle and bustle of his native New York City to live a greener and slower-paced life in rural upstate New York. Little did he know that the move would be anything but quiet – and the circumstances that would ensue determine a new career direction as a truth-baring radio journalist.
Aguirre became unwittingly embroiled in a Stephen King-worthy rural horror story of jurisdictional battles with regulatory agencies. The agencies disallowed his costly renovation project after giving their official approval. The three-year David and Goliath battle threatened Aguirre’s home and livelihood and took a personal toll. (His now-signature gravel voice is a battle scar.)
Aguirre realized that the only way to wage and win a defense campaign against the government bureaucracy was to get his story out to the public. He sought out media to alert the average Joe and Jane to the injustices regulatory agencies routinely carried out on ordinary citizens. After all, if it happened to him, anyone could be next. Aguirre’s story was covered by several high circulation newspapers and television and radio shows including WABC Radio and FOX TV news.
The media exposure turned out to be the tipping point in Tai Aguirre’s victory. Shortly thereafter, similar hardship stories from other families fighting battles with regulatory and bureaucratic agencies poured in from all over the country. Aguirre found himself a now well-informed advocate and did what any creative bigmouth New Yorker from Queens would do: He created a news/talk exposé radio show!
Called “Could YOU Be Next?….stories the mainstream media won’t dare talk about!”, and hosted, written and produced by Aguirre, the show was heard weekly over ABC affiliate WTBQ1110AM Radio and on the World Wide Web. Aguirre and his listeners became earwitnesses as offenders and bullies were called live, on the air, to explain themselves. Could YOU Be Next won instant acclaim and was responsible for exposing high profile cases such as the Diane Klienman Story.
Klienman, a former assistant D.A. serving as a Special Agent for the U.S. Customs Service at John F. Kennedy airport, one of the busiest in the world, uncovered startling corruption. Kleinman discovered serious security breaches, and the routine stealing of drug and cash evidence by customs workers. Kleinman even nabbed a cocaine smuggler with over 45 pounds of the illegal substance.
Instead of being praised and rewarded, this young, attractive Jewish patriot was discriminated against, had her life threatened, was ordered by her supervisors to perjure herself in front of a Grand Jury to cover up the department’s mess, and ultimately, fired without cause. New York Magazine and Fox News claimed to have broken the story, but Tai Aguirre interviewed Kleinman and reported her story 8 months prior on Could YOU Be Next?
A few examples of the scores of guests who have told-all on Could YOU Be Next? include: race car driver Bobby Unser on the frivolous $600,000 lawsuit against him by the Forest Service; Dr. Ede Koening, shut down by the California Medical Board for her successful alternative natural therapies; Mark Graff, a Department of Energy security specialist who had his computer wiped clean and was blacklisted for doing his job: reporting the leak of deadly plutonium.
Since the debut of Could YOU Be Next, Tai Aguirre has flourished in the radio medium. Aguirre created The Teen Show, a positive spin on America’s youth which he produced and directed with his teen guests. He is currently producing and hosting The Expat Show.
Streamed on the Web worldwide and reaching out to an audience of one million radio listeners through the radio station WTBQ1110AM, The Expat Show is the first-of-its-kind radio newsmagazine to deal specifically with the life and times of America’s expatriate community. A Baby Boomer himself, Aguirre discovered that although expats are found in all age groups, the number of Baby Boomers choosing to live overseas has grown tremendously. Organizations such as the Migration Policy Institute, the US State Department and others regularly report on this trend.
Called “radio’s first real global show,” listeners hear first-hand accounts of expats’ adventures as well as commentary from a panoply of experts in culture, business, law, real estate, etc., on the issues of living life abroad.
Tai Aguirre began his entertainment career as a vocalist, musician and composer, appearing in numerous concert halls and supper clubs across the U.S. He has won critical acclaim for his original Off-Broadway musical entitled “Broadway Moon” which played at Judy’s and Theatre East in New York City. Aguirre also co-produced the CD.
No stranger to the Internet, Aguirre was an early intra-preneur, winning the web site-of-the-year award from Incentive Magazine. Later, he won best new product of the year from New York’s Incentive Show for his “Your Personal Song,” an all-occasion music production Ebusiness. | | |
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