Carl Amari
| Carl Amari | |
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August 20, 1963 Chicago, Illinois |
Carl Amari (born August 20, 1963) is an American actor, director, producer and nationally syndicated radio host.
Amari was born in Chicago, Illinois and is the youngest of four children.
As a young boy, Amari was fascinated with classic radio shows and collected them on LP records and reel-to-reel tape. As he got older he decided to share his love of classic radio and founded Radio Spirits, which eventually became the world’s largest marketer and distributor of classic radio programs. Amari spent 30 years licensing more than 60,000 original radio programs from the rightsholders, including George Burns, Milton Berle and Jerry Lewis. Amari created the nationally syndicated radio series "When Radio Was" (which began as a local program in Chicago, hosted by Amari). Former CBS Radio executive Dick Brescia heard an in-flight version of the program on an Eastern Airlines flight, and soon mounted a nationally syndicated version of the series (through Dick Brescia Associates), beginning January 1, 1990 with host, Art Fleming (Stan Freberg later became host after Art Fleming's passing). CD collections of these classic radio shows are sold in retail store chains everywhere.
Amari was instrumental in developing the 24/7 “Radio Classics” channel for Sirius/XM. Under Amari’s leadership, Radio Spirits was twice named to the INC. 500 list of fastest growing privately held companies. In 1998, Amari was featured on the cover of INC. 500 Magazine. His business accomplishments have been highlighted in The Wall Street Journal, The Chicago Sun-Times, The Chicago Tribune, Variety, The Associated Press, Entertainment Weekly, The LA Times, The New York Post and many other publications. Tribune Broadcasting named Amari one of “Chicago’s Very Own.”
In 1998, Amari sold Radio Spirits to the public company Audio Book Club and in 2001 formed Falcon Picture Group, a company that specializes in the development of family-friendly entertainment projects. Through Falcon Picture Group, Amari controls exclusive licensing rights to more than 20,000 classic television shows, including “Family Affair,” “Dangerous Assignment,” “Bozo’s Circus,” “Man With A Camera,” “Suspense,” and “Hopalong Cassidy” to name a few. DVD collections of these classic TV shows are sold in retail stores worldwide. In 2007, Amari parlayed his passion for radio drama and love of the Bible by producing the award-winning “Word of Promise” audio Bible (NKJV translation) published by Christian giant Thomas Nelson, Inc. The New Testament was released in October 2007 and quickly won the top Evangelical award, The Christian Book of the Year. This coveted award had never been won by a Bible or an audio prior. "The Word of Promise” stars Jim Caviezel (The Passion of the Christ) reprising his film role as Jesus, with Michael York, Terence Stamp, Lou Gossett, Jr., Marisa Tomei, Lou Diamond Phillips, Ernie Hudson, Kimberly-Williams Paisley and many other celebrities voicing roles of the New Testament.
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