2001 ; 15 years ago 2001 headquarters portland oregon united states key people dan wieden david kennedy founders bill davenport ceo mark fitzloff susan hoffman aaron rose creative director janice grube content director products film & radio parent wieden kennedy website www.wk.com wke wke abbreviated from wkentertainment or wieden kennedy entertainment is an independently owned american production company and arts and culture delivery channel a subsidiary of the advertising agency wieden kennedy . the site contains material from a number of contributors as well as original materials created by w k under the creative direction of filmmaker aaron rose contents 1 history 2 present 3 references 4 external links history edit wieden kennedy had created original contents for various brands under the name w k entertainment since 2001 with bill davenport as ceo . 1 its productions include battlegrounds 2 an mtv2 series showcasing street basketball ; 3 ginga 4 a documentary about brazilian soccer players ; road to paris 5 documenting lance armstrong s path to his third tour de france victory in 2001 ; and say my name a worldwide documentary project about women by nirit peled . 6 7 wieden kennedy s exploration into producing its own non branded content was started after in early 2009 after five prior months of refinements with wk radio 8 an internet radio station . wk radio was created by singer songwriter janice grube in collaboration with davenport and under the executive creative direction of mark fitzloff and susan hoffman . 9 wk radio broadcast djs live music performances and interviews with low key emerging talents musicians and designers 10 where staffers often pitch in as well as outside artists and musicians . present edit wk radio stream was put on hiatus on mid 2009 and wieden kennedy hired creative director and filmmaker aaron rose to help relaunch the station as entertainment content delivery platform and production house . 11 the studio s first project is a daily recap coverage of portland institute for contemporary art time based art festival 2009 done in collaboration with portland radio authority and radio23 . 12 a full site launched in october 2009 with episodic shows such as califunya a comedy variety show . don t move here a look inside portland s vibrant underground music scene diy america a documentary based exploration into the american subcultures of skateboarding graffiti punk and hip hop . how to a series of offbeat instructional shorts . 12 a documentary on wieden kennedy s agency disguised experimental advertising school . references edit wieden kennedy names 2 partners . adweek . march 17 2009 . retrieved 2009 08 27 . ... wieden entertainment president bill davenport ... lebron james mtv2 comcast charter and nike join forces for nike battlegrounds king of the court . prnewswire . retrieved 2009 08 25 . nike battlegrounds is a nike wieden kennedy entertainment and radical.media production in partnership with mtv2 . staff report june 16 2004 . mtv2 nike take to the streets for battlegrounds . zap2it.com nike ginga the soul of brazilian football . december 14 2005 . retrieved 2009 08 25 . ... ginga is a dynamic documentary that explores brazil through the country s favorite sport . wieden & kennedy looks to branch into other creative areas . business 2.0 . september 2009 . retrieved 2009 08 25 . w & k created a film around nike endorser lance armstrong entitled road to paris sxsw film preview say my name . austinist . march 12 2009 . retrieved 2009 08 27 . say my name documentary . women make movies . wk radio portland . shots 115 31 . june 2009 . the concept took five months to refine and launch and since going live late in 2008 wieden kennedy gets real with online radio . the oregonian . april 15 2009 . retrieved 2009 08 27 . last fall grube made a radio pitch to the agency s senior managers . they said yes before she finished the presentation . wk radio facebook group . retrieved 2009 08 25 . wk radio exists to inspire creativity through provocative conversations interviews and artistic expression relating to the arts culture music and media . christine clarke july 6 2009 . aaron rose hits the road for wieden kennedy . boards magazine . ... the project is only a small slice of what rose was brought into wieden to do . his primary job is to help the agency develop an online media channel which will debut september 1 . the channel will air original content produced by w k http blog.wk.com 2009 08 wk radio is now wke.html external links edit wke official site say my name at women make movies retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title wke wkentertainment & oldid 729529067 categories companies based in portland oregonfilm production companies of the united statesradio production companieswieden kennedy2001 establishments in portland oregon navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 12 july 2016 at 20 39 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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