2009 ANNUAL REPORT Public Television 2010

A LOCAL RESOURCE FOR NEW HAMPSHIRE: TV, EDUCATION & COMMUNITY INITIATIVES BEING LOCAL has always created Making $ense New website alone had over 3 million been New Hampshire Public England, a 10-part series visitors in a 12-month period, Television’s mission. We’ve been combining advice with stories of supporting more than 55 proudly local for more than 50 how resourceful northern New hours of quality PBS children’s years, sharing stories about the Englanders were weathering the programming each week. economic downturn. Granite State and northern New We said cheers! in August at England. Beyond the TV and As part of our service, NHPTV our Passport Craft Beer and computer screens that show airs independently produced Food event, held in partnership our award-winning programs, programs such as Including with Strawbery Banke Museum. NHPTV’s educational services Samuel that have a local focus, Local breweries and restaurants and community initiatives and we extend the content into participated, and 500 guests support our mission of engaging the classroom and communities. enjoyed the pairings in minds, connecting communities Concord resident Dan Habib’s Portsmouth. We also hosted and celebrating New Hampshire. documentary aired in April, and swing band Big Bad Voodoo Here are some of the highlights told of his family’s hopes and Daddy in Concord in the fall. struggles with his son Samuel’s we’re particularly proud of from th disability. Despite the recession, the 36 FY10 (7/1/09 - 6/30/10): NHPTV Spring Auction raised Journey of the Our locally focused programs. Granite State Challenge’s 27th nearly $450,000. As always, Broad-Winged Journey of the Broad-Winged season ended with a big buzz, our loyal volunteers get much of Hawk Hawk, a documentary that as Manchester Central High won the credit for its success. And traveled from the White the academic quiz competition in our first online Winter Holiday Mountains to the jungles of an exciting last round. Auction was a great success. Ecuador to tell the story of this Special PBS guests: We Since June 2010, more viewers hawk’s migration, won both a welcomed Gwen Ifill of the PBS have been tuned in and enjoying New England Emmy and a Telly. NewsHour at our Women of our unique programming. Other programs received Influence luncheon in the fall. Comcast now carries our digital recognition for excellence, Antiques Roadshow executive channels NHPTV PRIME HD too, including NH Outlook and director Marsha Bemko took and NHPTV EXPLORE in New Windows to the Wild. Our Planet us behind-the-scenes of that Hampshire, Southern Maine and Granite community initiative’s favorite treasure hunting show northern Massachusetts. at our gala in June. “Green Scenes” mini-series was Thank you for making NHPTV’s recognized, along with our MESY NHPTV’s educational services, programs and educational Moments (Math + Engineering + delivered by our Knowledge services possible to all. Science + You!) mini-series. Network department, provided A unique multi-platform educators, parents and children collaboration with Maine and with K-12 services, workshops, Vermont public television and website resources. The — Peter A. Frid, President & CEO

Mark H. Collin, Ron L. Abramson, Esq. George Epstein Karol LaCroix John Swope Board Chair Board Secretary Trustee, University System President, Retired Sr. VP, CFO & Treasurer, Abramson Immigration of New Hampshire Granite State College Unitil Corporation Solutions Katherine Wells Wheeler Marilyn Higgins Forest Edward MacKay Retired Steven A. Albrecht, Marge Chiafery, Real Estate Management Chancellor, University Board Vice Chair Immediate Past Board Chair System of New Hampshire CEO, Charter Trust Company Superintendent, Lois Haskins DIGITAL CHANNELS Merrimack School District LGH Consulting James T. McKim 11 Durham Richard J. Maloney, Technology Strategist 34 Pittsburg Board Treasurer William A. Barker Larry K. Haynes 48 Littleton President, Maloney & Retired President & CEO, Sean O’Kane 49 Keene Kennedy, PLLC Grappone Auto Group Retired 50 Hanover John D. Crosier, Sr. Trustee, University System Angela Irons David M. Sundman Analog channel of New Hampshire Lincoln Financial Group President, 26 Colebrook Board of Directors 2009-2010 Littleton Coin Company

FY10 JULY 1, 2009 - June 30, 2010 ANTIQUES ROADSHOW Executive producer Marsha Bemko (right) was the guest speaker at the annual NHPTV Gala in Bedford in June 2010.

Our first PASSPORT Craft Beer & Culinary World Tour event 2% in August 2009 at Strawbery Banke Museum in Portsmouth 7% was a delicious success! 48% 17% 2% 6% 43% red 29%31% 15% FISCAL YEAR 2010 Laconia Savings Bank Senior Beacon JULY 1, 2009 - JUNE 30, 2010 Lake Sunapee Bank Senior Times Newspaper For more than 50 years, NHPTV Lindt Chocolate Service Credit Union has provided award-winning Littleton Coin Company Sheehan Phinney Bass + Revenue locally focused and produced Live Nation New England Green PA Development $3,810,250.00 television programs, as well as Louis Karno & Company Simply Green PBS and independently produced Lowell Festival Foundation Story Land State of NH $2,714,000.00 programs that engage, educate Manchester Radio Group (WZID TD Bank Federal Support $1,541,024.00 and enrich lives. We are a trusted 97.5, WMLL The Mill 96.5, Three Chimneys Inn Client Services $603,993.00 source for television programs WFEA 1370) TSO Management Misc. Income $160,557.00 on our NHPTV PRIME and NHPTV McLean Communications UNH Athletics $8,829,824.00 EXPLORE channels, and for con- Meadowbrook U.S. Cellular Unitil tent on our website nhptv.org. Pavilion University of New Hampshire Meredith Village Savings Bank University System of We extend our deepest appre- Monadnock Mountain New Hampshire ciation to our valued partners Spring Water Upper Valley Life Magazine and supporters for investing in Mount Washington Cruises Verizon Wireless Arena 48%15% NHPTV and our community. The Music Hall Woodcraft 2% 39% MVP Healthcare WTPL 107.7 The Pulse 22% 6% Program, Project, Website and Nard’s Appliance WXRV The River 92.5 FM Special Event Sponsors 29% 24%15% Nashua Telegraph Your New England Toyota Dealers Anthem Blue Cross and National Education Association of Blue Shield New Hampshire Auction Underwriters The Arbors of Bedford New Hampshire Antiquarian AARP – New Hampshire Autodesk, Inc. Booksellers Association Amphenol TCS Expenses BAE Systems New Hampshire Business Review Bottomline Technologies The Balsams Grand Resort Hotel New Hampshire Business Review CGI Employee Benefits Group Program & Services $3,358,357.00 Best of NH 2010 Business Excellence Awards Daniels Equipment Company Development $2,039,981.00 The Boulders at RiverWoods New Hampshire Credit Union Desmarais Environmental Engineering $1,882,191.00 The Capitol Center for the Arts League D.F. Richard Energy Administration $1,245,595.00 Charter Trust Company New Hampshire Home Magazine EnviroVantage Citizens Bank $8,526,125.00 New Hampshire Magazine FairPoint Comunications Community College System of New Hampshire Lottery Fidelity/Unique College New Hampshire New Hampshire Solar Stores Investing Plan Conway Office Products/Konica New Hampshire Union Leader Financial Planning Association Copiers New Horizons Computer Learning of Northern New England 1% Conway Scenic Railroad Center of NH Graf Brothers Leasing 11% Cranmore Mountain NHHEAF Network Organizations Laconia Savings Bank 48% 9% D.F. Richard Energy Northeast Credit Union Lindt Chocolate 2% EnviroVantage Ocean Bank Maple Suites & Kittery Estates 6% 16% 55% Exclusive Links Card Corp. Olivia’s Organics Members First Credit Union Fidelity/Unique College The Palace Theatre Monadnock Mountain Spring 29% 15% 8% Investing Plan The Parcel Room Water, Inc. Geo. J. Foster & Co., Inc. Parenting NH Magazine Mt. Washington Valley Granite State College Perfecta Wine Company Accommodations Grappone Automotive Group Plymouth State University NHHEAF Network Organizations Green Alliance Development Gifts Portsmouth Regional Hospital New Hampshire Institute of Art Hillcrest Terrace Retirement Proulx Oil & Propane New Hampshire Society of Individual Giving $2,113,962.00 Community Public Service of New Hampshire Accountants Leadership Gifts $317,529.00 Huntington at Nashua RAM Printing Inc. New Hampshire Trusted Choice Corporations $593,415.00 Irving Oil Ransmeier & Spellman Insurance Agents Isles of Shoals Steamship Foundations & Grants $333,054.00 Rath, Young and Pignatelli, P.C. New Horizons Computer Company Remembered Voices Learning Center Auction $423,073.00 Kearsarge Magazine RiverStone Northeast Credit Union Special Events $29,217.00 Keene Sentinel Saniflo Northeast Delta Dental $3,810,250.00 Keene State College Savings Bank of Walpole Northway Bank Kingsbury Corporation Seacoast Media Group Ocean Bank

ONLINE ANYTIME nhptv.org The PBS NEWSHOUR’s Gwen Ifill was our guest at the sold-out 2009 NHPTV Women of Influence luncheon in Bedford in November (left, with NHPTV President & CEO Peter Frid).

Our loyal volunteers, work- ing busy phone banks and having some fun, during the 2010 NHPTV Spring Auction in May. red The Parcel Room Mr. Thomas Bohnert Rep. Barbara C. French Robert & Evelyn Lacroix Public Service of New Hampshire A. Paul Boucher Mr. Donald Fretz Ms. Judy Larson Reeds Ferry Sheds Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Boucher Ms. Sandra Fryou Mr. & Mrs. Richard Laskey SFC Engineering Ms. Doris Bouwensch Dr. John S. Gale Ms. Rosemary M. Lawson Unitil Mr. Steven Bradley A. Harvey Gardner Mr. Earl Le Clair University System of Mr. & Mrs. Colin Brench Mrs. Eloise Gardner Mr. Francis LeBlanc New Hampshire Mrs. Deana Bresslin Christine Gibson Ms. Phyllis LeBlanc Waddell & Reed Financial Advisors Mr. & Mrs. Breuer Ms. Gertrude Gilman Ms. Doris Leavitt Your New England Toyota Dealers Mr. & Mrs. Frank Brown Mrs. Beverly Glovsky Mrs. Jeannine T. Levesque Mrs. Jane Burgon Mr. Martin Goldman Ms. Jaye E. Lewis Foundations and Trusts Mrs. Marion Butland Mrs. Ben Gooch Ms. Carol J. Locke Alice J. Reen Charitable Trust Ms. Carol Calderwood Mr. James Gorman George & Debbie Long Baldwin Foundation Stephen Camann Ms. Pauline Gottschalk Ms. Susan Loring CPB DDF Round 12b Ms. Mary P. Campbell Mrs. Norma L. Greene Mrs. Rachel Losh CPB Economy Response Grant Ms. Susan Carlson Mrs. Catherine Gregg Ms. Rita Loshbaugh CPB Grow the Audience Ms. Constance Carney Mrs. Celina Griffin Mr. Albert A. Lu (Patchwork Nation) Mrs. Janet Catalfano Mr. Alan Grossberg Col. & Mrs. Luebbert Frederick Smyth Trust Mr. Robert Cather Mr. Thomas Guganig George & Ernestine Lyman Fuller Foundation Ms. Fella Cederbaum Mr. Donald Gurney, Sr. Ms. Mary B. Macbride Gilbert Verney Foundation Virginia S. Champlin Harold & Margot Haddock Mrs. Marian Madden Hesed Foundation Mr. David Chapin Ms. Ann G. Haggart Marlene & Francis Marchilena Lincoln Financial Group Ms. Richard R. Chasse Mr. & Mrs. Fred W. Hall Mr. & Mrs. Lavallee Foundation Ms. Robin Shield Mrs. Edith Ham Ms. Jane I. Marett Mary Alice Arakelian Foundation Ms. Shirley H. Clarke Scott & Kim Hamilton Richard Markuns New Hampshire Charitable Ms. P. J. Coffin Ms. Susan Hancox Joseph & Pasena Maroun Foundation Ms. Patricia Connelly Mr. & Mrs. Charles Hanrahan Nury S. Marquez Roy A. Hunt Foundation Mr. Peter Connolly Mr. Robert Harrigan Ms. Linda Marsden Scholastic Media Mr. David Connor Mr. & Mrs. H. E. Harrington, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Robert Marshall Ms. Virginia Coolidge Mrs. Linda Hartford Ms. Esther Martin Mr. & Mrs. Sidney Craven Mrs. Jacqueline Harwood Mary N. Masland Mr. & Mrs. James Crecco Lois & Richard Haskins Mrs. Lilo Masters Mr. James A. Curran Mr. Kenneth Hayden Mr. & Mrs. Gerard Mathieu Honorable & Mrs. David P. Currier Peter & Laura Hayden Mr. & Mrs. John Mattill (Gifts of $ 500 - $ 999) Mrs. Carole Curtin Mr. Robert Hindin Mrs. Deborah A. Maynard Ms. Patricia Curtis Ms. Martha Hoagland Mr. & Mrs. Maynard ASCA, Inc. Ms. Maria D’Agostino Lee and Cathleen Hodson Mrs. Lorry Maynard Ms. Elizabeth S. Abby-Stearns Mr. Warren Daansen Ms. Caroline J. Hollingsworth Mrs. Ana M. Mayor Ms. Alice Aittama Mr. Terence E. Dancy Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Horlacher David & Barbara Maysilles Ms. Katherin Alden Ms. Mary L. Dauphinais John A. Hubbard Marjorie McDonald, M.D. Janet S. Anderson Ms. Mary Davies Mr. Edward Jackitis Brownie McKinley Anne S. Howells Charitable Trust Mrs. Wilma M. Davis Mr. & Mrs. Doug Johnson Ms. Nancy N. McLamore Mr. & Mrs. John Appleton Ms. DeSimone & Mr. Descoteaux Mr. & Mrs. Robert Johnston Mrs. Belle Mcdonald Mr. & Mrs. Jackques Aquillon Mr. John Desmond Ms. Doris Jones Mrs. Marion Meigs Mr. Philip R. Arvidson Ms. Ellen Devlin Martin Kantrovitz & Robert & Anne Micci Ms. Ruth J. Asquith Mr. Duffett & Mrs. Stewart-Duffett Joanne Sheridan Mr. Miller & Ms. Day Mr. Verne S. Atwater Dr. Frank H. Duffy Mrs. Muriel Kasdon Dr. & Mrs. Jonathan Mishcon Mr. Charles Austin Mr. & Mrs. Clark Dumont David P. & Joanne K. Kelleher Shoaib Mohammad Mr. & Mrs. George Baldwin Ms. Caroline F. Duquette Ms. Mary Grace Kelleher Mrs. Lois Moore Stephen P. Barba Mr. Thomas E. Durney Mr. & Mrs. Guy Kimball Timothy E. Moore William M. Barron Ms. Eileen Eberhart Mrs. Judith B. Kimball Mrs. Miriam Morrell Kate & Gordon Baty Mr. V. William Efthim Mr. Ernest Klein Ms. Ellen Morrissette Dr. & Mrs. Ralph Beasley Mr. & Mrs. H. Newcomb Eldredge Ms. Nai Ko Mr. & Mrs. Leonard Morrissey Ms. Helen Benedict Adele Ervin Mrs. Evelyn Kocher-Ahern Mr. William B. Mortimer Mr. Bruce Berg Mr. Alan Esty Mr. Jack Kofoed Mr. & Mrs. Dan Mullen Mr. David Berner Merrill & Beth Fay Mrs. Rosemary P. Kost Mr. & Mrs. John Muller Ms. Judith Blake Patrice & Fred Ficken Ms. Maureen Kuharic Mr. Kent Murphy Francis M. Blodget, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. James Freeman Mr. & Mrs. Damian Kulash Mrs. Barbara Myers

ONLINE ANYTIME nhptv.org Kindergartener Briar Ainscough (left), 1st place win- ner at the NHPTV-PBS KIDS GO! Writers Contest, went on to win 2nd place in the PBS national contest.

Manchester Central High School won the 27th GRANITE STATE SUPERCHALLENGE.

CLIFFORD THE BIG RED DOG was a hit at StoryLand in June!

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