The Boomers

 

Your dedicated broadcast department

The staff at Boom Broadcast and Media Relations – Boomers – bring over 50 years combined experience in PR, media relations, marketing communications and content production. Our hand-picked teams work closely with our clients to develop innovative ideas and strategies to ensure that your campaign is seen and heard, with a resounding boom!

From brainstorm to execution you'll be working with Boomers with the specific expertise for your project. Your team is dictated by project parameters and will include a combination of a lead (typically a Boom partner,) a project manager, broadcast consultant, content coordinator, producer and senior publicist. We will provide background and contact information for each team member every time you work with Boom. Get to know a little bit more about our senior staffers below.


Our philosophy is straightforward: Whatever your unique objectives, your Boom team will work to meet or exceed expectations from planning, to implementation, to results. We are a vested partner in the success of your campaign. Our staff and team expand and contract as projects and campaigns dictate - but your Boom lead will always be engaged from start to finish - read more about our leadership below.


 
 
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Barbara Gutjahr

Founder

Barbara Gutjahr is a Founding Partner of Boom Broadcast & Media Relations with over 20 years experience in consumer, health & medical, entertainment and business-to-business public relations. Barbara's diverse expertise in media relations enabled her to create a company like Boom – one that provides clients with unparalleled counsel, strategy and service. And, her meticulous attention to detail is rivaled only by her thick Long Island accent that becomes more pronounced the more passionate she becomes about a project.

Little did she know that her love of news could actually turn into a career. A news junkie, most mornings Barbara can be found scouring the morning news shows on multiple screens and devices. Her ability to simultaneously take in CNN, Good Day Philadelphia, The New York Post and Twitter serves her clients well!

Barbara is married to a self-described long-suffering husband (aka the luckiest man alive) and shares his obsession with Sci-Fi movies. On rainy days they can likely be found in their jammies, binge watching their Netflix “programs” along with their loyal terriers who have come, gone, and arrived again — Ripley, Spike, Zoëy, Roxy and Rufus. When not immersed in news or shows, Barbara indulges her passions — nature photography and singing with a voice that can only be described as “unique.”

FAVES

Photographers: Platon, Paul Nicklen and Steve McCurry

Instragram: LloydMeudell, AndrewKnapp, NatGeo, BestVines and Rafael Mantesso

Music: John Hiatt, Lady Gaga, George Ezra, Elle King, Lumineers and 80s New Wave

Book Quote: “Where there's cake, there's hope. And, there's always cake.” – Dean Koontz

 
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Joni Winkler

Founder

Joni (Joan) Winkler, founding Partner of Boom Broadcast & Media Relations, has over 30 years of marketing communications experience covering campaign strategy and execution for health/medical, consumer, travel and business-to-business clients.

Her cumulative experience in counseling, strategizing and managing marketing communications programs for PR/Ad agencies, Fortune 500 clients and non-profit organizations provided the perfect foundation for creating a company like Boom. In her role as partner, Joni draws on her experience to deliver a level of service to clients that reflects an unyielding respect for their mission and communications objectives. The variety of work, challenges and clients keeps her loving Boom.

Joni and her husband Bryan live in Colorado and have two grown boys (okay, young men) who have wowed them with academic and athletic prowess, but it’s what they teach their parents every day now - what a ride. Dogs who have come and gone, today it’s Tony and Hank - again - grounding everything in reality.

FAVES

Favorite spare time activity: Watching my boys play baseball

Movies/Shows: Overboard, Field of Dreams, Veep

Music: Five for Fighting, Tom Petty, Coldplay, Megan Trainor

Causes: Parkinsons, MS, Environment

Cocktails: Go to: wine – a full bodied red. Ball game or hot summer day: Colorado microbrews (pilsner)

 
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Julia Liu

VP Solutions

Julia Liu is VP, Solutions at Boom Broadcast & Media Relations with over 15 years of experience in broadcast media relations. As manager of PSA projects, she is passionate about and personally vested in the success of every single one of Boom's PSAs.

Clients know they can rely on Julia to get things done quickly, efficiently and done the right way — she is a “do-er".  She welcomes any challenge at work and loves that each day without fail, she learns something new that will enhance a client or co-workers experience at Boom.

Outside of the office, Julia is busy discovering all that an air-fryer can cook and hoping one day to become the Corn Hole champion she knows she is. Find her on banks of a lake and or sidelines cheering her girls on in crew, soccer, on stage and even fashion design. Julia is married to Rich, a surfer and the Best Parking Spot Finder Ever. Rounding out the family is COVID puppy “Bunny” a/k/a “Bun-nets” in French (pronounced “Bun-yay”).

FAVES

TV: Games of Thrones, Westworld, Modern Family

Movie: Mostly anything Sci-Fi (Star Trek reboots especially) and Dirty Dancing – there I said it.

Music: And, after every soccer practice, she is listening to the syndicated radio show, Delilah, at 7 PM – she loves a good love story

Exercise: Barre and Spinning

 
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Wendy Lienhart

Senior Publicist

On 12/26/2020 we lost our friend and colleague Wendy Levi Lienhart to cancer. Boom Broadcast was built on love - our love and respect for the people who joined us in this endeavor 17 years ago, our love and excitement for the clients and their work who jumped on board and gave us a chance. Wendy was the embodiment of all that is the best of Boom. Joan and Wendy were colleagues - client and vendor long before we launched Boom. I still remember being 9-months pregnant with my second baby and on a business trip to Chicago - Wendy, already mother of two and soon to be mother to three - gave me a bit of advice I never forgot - slow down. Focus on this most important of jobs. Give yourself time and space to be a mom and it’s okay to set work aside. We reconnected after we launched Boom. Wendy was full of energy to fill in the spaces between her parenting - at that point two at prestigious colleges, soon to be three (all academic and athletic all-stars! No surprise to anyone who knew Wendy’s own competitiveness, fire, fierceness and athleticism on the tennis court specifically.) As a highly skilled communications expert with over 25 years of experience in public relations Wendy wanted to still fire on all cylinders and did she ever.

She was a PR rock star and was pivotal in the success of every story we asked her to pitch, elevating important stories about healthcare solutions, cancer cures, putting an end to domestic violence, and elevating children’s causes. But above all, her devotion to her children Banistre, Cooper and Peyton never faltered and always took priority and we would never have it any other way. Not to be overlooked - her storytelling, sense of humor and creativity that extended to the socials she established on behalf of Finley, a super-charged Boston Terrier and Piper an attention grabbing French Bulldog. Both have achieved Instagram fame as Finley_Piper, due to their mother’s shameless promotional skills that served her so well throughout her career. Just a couple of years before Wendy passed, we had the unique pleasure of a decadent dinner with Wendy and loving husband Parker to celebrate a milestone victory pushing back on her most insidious opponent. That celebration in particular shined a light on Wendy's appreciation of the small things, the big things, the fine things, and the important things in a life. Her intelligence, strength, love, and fierce devotion defined her and we are all better for having known her. We were privileged and honored to have had her as part of our Boom family. Rest in peace Wendy. With love, your Boom sisters and brothers.

 
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Steve Angiolino

Producer

Steve Angiolino is our go to Boom “predator” - a term we like to think we coined Producer + Editor. there is no job too urgent, big, or small for Steve - he makes us look good! With an illustrious tenure in broadcast media, he has worked on a wide range of projects for a varied group of clients. Steve is the on-site producer for Boom's SMTs and b-roll packages and is also our in-house editor.

Before joining Boom, Steve spent 11 years as the head of the broadcast department at DBA public relations in New York City. He has produced projects everywhere and anywhere from athletic events to trade shows to national landmarks. Through hands-on experience, he has extensive knowledge of the technical details and the ability to think quickly on his feet that are necessary to a job's success.

Steve lives in North Jersey with his wife Barbara and two children where they enjoy eating out, spending time in NYC and getting together with family and friends. Each year, he also helps to organize and produce a Dads-only variety show (featuring over 250 dads!) that helps to raise money for their local schools.

FAVES:

Hobby #1:Playing golf with my son and friends

Hobby #2:Going out to eat, did I mention going out to eat

Cocktails: Campari and Soda, Campari Gin and Tonic

Music: Canadian alternative. Lots of great bands coming out of Canada

Favorite Movie: Jaws