2018 Annual Report Content and Services to the Community

WGTE touched the lives of nearly 300,000 people last year.

WGTE WGTE offered champions early education professional outreach development to statewide 6,139 educators reaching 3,995 this year. educators.

WGTE serves 26 counties with public radio and TV.

WGTE Public Media is a center of learning and education. We were founded as an educational institution, and our educational mission remains at the heart of what we do every day.

We are dedicated to personal development and civic improvement by the innovative use of technology to educate, enlighten, engage, enrich, entertain, empower and explore.

2018 Annual Report on Content and Service to the Community 1 EDUCATE As a natural extension of our quality children’s programming, the Early Learning department provides training for preschool and early childhood educators so that the children in their care can start school “ready to learn.” The Educational Resource Center (ERC) staff provide professional development training to area K-12 educators – we make better teachers! ERC Professional Development and Special Projects The ERC offered professional development to more than 6,139 educators in professional development, including Invention Literacy with MakeyMakey, intercultural trainings, Google Classroom, project-based learning, and more!

WGTE became a Future Ready Schools® affiliate and worked with the Ohio Department of Education to ensure that all schools and students are future ready. Future Ready Schools® helps district leaders plan and implement personalized, research-based digital learning strategies so all students can achieve their full potential. We believe every student deserves a rigorous, personalized learning environment filled with caring adults that enables students Early Learning to take ownership of their learning. District leaders who recognize the potential of digital tools can align necessary 416 Toledo-area early childhood caregivers technologies with instructional goals to support teaching attended one of WGTE’s 30 Ohio Ready To Learn and learning. professional development workshops that are funded by the Ohio Department of Job and Family ERC staff attended the International Society for Technology Services. As statewide coordinator for Ohio Ready in Education conference in Chicago, Illinois. ERC staff had to Learn, WGTE also supervised the delivery of the opportunity to discover which emerging technologies an additional 190 professional development educators all over the world are excited about. Joining more workshops that were provided by Ohio’s seven than 20,000 educators, administrators and business owners, public television stations. More than 3,995 early from every U.S. state and 72 countries, the ERC staff learned childhood caregivers benefitted from the training. about the latest, cutting-edge tools, and trends in educational technology that are now being used locally to improve More than 200 children, their family members, educational outcomes. and caregivers attended the World Play Event with WGTE at the Toledo Lucas County Library. WGTE was an organizing partner at the annual statewide Attendees played literacy games and learned more Instructional Technology Integration Partnership of Ohio about using the free learning apps and programs Summit, the largest of its kind, where more than 1,000 available from PBS Kids. educators learned about combining Google tools and cutting- edge, best practices in educational technology to create great More than 250 children, ages 2 through 14, visited teaching skills. the WGTE booth at the annual Claire’s Day Book Festival. Children played a Super Why! rhyming game and received books and summer reading logs.

Approximately 1,500 children, family members and ITIP Ohio Summit caregivers attended Be My Neighbor Day. Children Featuring Google for Education and their family members learned the importance of being a good neighbor, built family first aid kits, 2018 completed art projects for veterans and seniors, and more. This event was made possible by a grant from the PNC Grow Up Great Program.

2 2018 Annual Report on Content and Service to the Community ENLIGHTEN WGTE Public Media’s programs and services help the community stay informed by providing local news, television productions, and online streaming presentations.

WGTE TV streamed 24 Toledo City Council meetings, which nearly 1,600 free, video-on-demand multimedia enabled the community to stay abreast of local politics and resources for the public and educators. issues. Knowledgestream.org provides access to rich content anytime, anywhere, anyhow. WGTE broadcasted and streamed a town hall series in association with Toledo Pride and In conjunction with The Blade and the Equality Toledo before a live studio audience. Statehouse News Bureau, a service of Ohio’s The studio audience and viewers called in public media stations, WGTE FM 91 produced with questions and concerns. The episode 200 local news reports that aired hourly during focused on examining the challenges that “Morning Edition.” the lesbian, gay, transgender, questioning, and intersex community face and provided WGTE FM 91 produced 48 new episodes of information about local resources that are available to help. “Life As We Know It,” a weekly series of four- minute essays written and delivered by Tom More than 71 educational presentations were recorded and Walton, commentator and former editor of added to the Knowledge Stream library, an online archive of The Blade.

2018 Annual Report on Content and Service to the Community 3 ENGAGE WGTE Public Media is a trusted community partner that engages the community for social and civic improvement.

Early literacy is one of the main tenants of engagement efforts at WGTE. Entrants in the annual Share a Story Contest more than quadrupled this year to 64 total entries. Participants, ages 4 to 11, wrote and illustrated their own original stories. The children and their WGTE launched a new radio show and family members attended a recognition event podcast, Toledo SymphonyLab™, which is held at WGTE, and the winners were recognized produced in collaboration with the Toledo with certificates of achievement and prizes. Symphony Orchestra (TSO). Over thirty-nine weeks, the thirty-minute long program provided a behind-the-scenes look at the world of classical music. Host Brad Cresswell and panelists Zak Vassar, president and CEO of the Toledo Symphony, and Merwin Siu, TSO’s Artistic Administrator, explored a theme inspired by a concert, event, or guest artist from the TSO’s season. EAST TOLEDO WGTE collaborated with Partners in Education and the Andersons, Inc. Storybook Fest Charitable Foundation to conduct a Kindergarten Readiness workshop for 35 children and their parents and guardians. 700 children, parents and guardians attended the East Toledo Storybook Festival held in WGTE FM 91 left its studios in Toledo and went “on the road” by June at Waite High School. Sponsored by the broadcasting from Bryan, Defiance, Lima, and Bowling Green. FM Conda Family, WGTE provided educational 91 on the Road will be held in more communities this coming year. and fun activities, distributed free books with Continuing its long history of supporting local arts organizations, FM funding from O-I, and provided snacks for 91 conducted on-site broadcasts at events including Crosby Festival of children. Additional educational activities and the Arts, University of Toledo’s Art on the Mall, and Wild About Art at the performances were provided by 24 community Toledo Zoo & Aquarium. partners and sponsors.

4 2018 Annual Report on Content and Service to the Community ENRICH & ENTERTAIN WGTE provides programs that entertain and enrich our daily lives.

WGTE FM 91 produced 50 new episodes of “The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor,” an ongoing short-form radio program/ podcast that explores the social and cultural fabric of our community, while uncovering personal stories and experiences that resonate globally. This year RDD also produced 4 video segments to complement the series and marked its 100th episode by hosting a community celebration.

WGTE’s nationally and internationally syndicated radio program, “Living American Composers: New Music from Bowling Green,” entered its fifth season. Since its launch in 2013, the program, in collaboration with the College of Musical Arts at Bowling Green State University, has reached 2 million listeners on 165 stations.

More than 3,608 people attended more than 57 WGTE outreach Great British Baking Show events that showcased or provided sneak peeks of new local and national television productions. Cupcake Battle WGTE celebrated 15 years of our most popular series, Toledo Stories, with a look back at some of our favorites in “Toledo Stories – A Retrospective.” This special looked at the iconic institutions, people, cultures, and neighborhoods that make our region an interesting place in which to work and live.

Every year, as part of our holiday tradition, WGTE airs outstanding local and national holiday performances. This year, WGTE aired two new locally produced programs: “Masterworks Chorale: Radiant Midnight” and “Toledo Jazz Orchestra Holiday Concert.” WGTE Public Media is pleased to partner with and support our cultural gems.

2018 Annual Report on Content and Service to the Community 5 EMPOWER WGTE Public Media provides the tools and information that enable the community to take action and influence change.

WGTE produced 25 minutes of footage on local conservation efforts in conjunction with a special event and documentary release of the national PBS special, “Rare: Creatures of the Photo Ark.” WGTE received a grant from WGBH to host the event and share local mini documentaries about conservation activities that are occurring in our own backyard.

WGTE partnered with the United States Environmental Protection Agency, the Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the University of Toledo to produce a live television town hall – “Detecting Invasive Species in the Great Lakes,” which helped the community to learn more about preventing invasive species from harming the environment.

WGTE Educational Resource Center introduced a new free professional development series, Fighting Fake News. Educators were taught with the help of free resources from PBS and other sources how to arm their students in the battle against “fake news.” Educators learned how to teach students to be critical consumers of information that they find online and in the media.

6 2018 Annual Report on Content and Service to the Community EXPLORE WGTE Public Media makes it possible for community members to explore new and different topics by providing free programming and outreach opportunities.

WGTE brought the ProMedica Summer Concert winners of “Sunday Baroque” host Suzanne Bona (flute), Series with The Toledo Symphony Orchestra to life Tower Brass Quintet, student ensembles from BGSU, by simulcasting the free, outdoor summer concerts and the cast of Toledo Opera’s “The Pearl Fishers.” series on large screens in Promenade Park. The season included national acts such as Crystal Bowersox and WGTE produced 38 new episodes of “Classical Caly Bevier, Steve Tyrell, and a Prince tribute concert. Conversations,” a radio segment/podcast that features conversations with local and international classical WGTE created, broadcasted and streamed 8 new musicians. Hosted by Brad Cresswell, the one-on-one episodes of “Live from FM 91,” a monthly classical music interviews featured noted artists including star violinist performance series that takes place in WGTE’s Dana Joshua Bell, vocalist Audra McDonald, guitarist Sharon Performance Studio. The program provided a showcase Isbin, violinist Rachel Barton Pine, and mezzo-soprano for local musicians and aspiring musicians, including the Joyce DiDonato.

2018 Annual Report on Content and Service to the Community 7 SUPPORT Fiscal Year 2018 Corporate/Organization Supporters Underwriting The Maryse and Ramzy Mikhail Early Learning and Outreach Adrian Symphony Endowment Fund Support Antique Furniture Repair & Refinishing The Patricia K. Jarzabski Trust The Conda Family BGSU Graduate & Executive Programs The S. Amjad & Dorothy G. Hussain Corporation for Public Broadcasting in Business Family Fund Fred Rogers Productions BGSU Summer Camp The Sight Center of Northwest Ohio Ohio Department of Education Black Swamp Arts Festival Theater League Ohio Department of Jobs and Family Boys & Girls Clubs of Toledo Toledo Chapter, American Guild of Services Civilian Marksmanship Program Organists Owens-Illinois Columbia Gas of Ohio Toledo Community Foundation PNC Grow Up Great Community Hospital & Wellness Toledo Museum of Art Toledo Public Schools Centers Toledo Opera Croswell Opera House Toledo Pride WGTE TV & FM Program Defiance College Torrence Sound Equipment Production Support Unison Delta Dental ABC TV Inc. University of Findlay Epworth United Methodist Church Bowling Green State University UT College of Arts & Letters Festival of India Buckeye Broadband Valentine Theatre Fort Meigs CBS Visit Fort Wayne Fresh Market CNN Waterford Bank Fulkerson Jewelers & Clock Shop C-Span Westside Montessori Girl Scouts of Western Ohio Democracy Now! Woodcraft Hope Lutheran Church Dorothy Price Woodville Surplus Hospice of Northwest Ohio Fox News Yankee Peddler Festival Islamic School of Greater Toledo GlobeCast North America Zoar Lutheran Church KeyBank Hanson, Inc. Lakeside Chautauqua Non-Profit Announcements Hart Inc. Live Nation Hospice of Northwest Ohio Bowling Green State University Lucas County Clerk of Courts KCRW Delta Dental/Think TV Marathon Center for the Performing Key Private Bank Islamic Center of Greater Toledo Arts KeyBank Marathon Center for the Performing Maumee Valley Country Day School MadAveGroup Arts Medical Mutual of Ohio Mary Manse Alumni Association Masterworks Chorale Nacht Law NBCUniversal - MSNBC Maumee Valley Country Day School Nagel Advertising Agency Owens-Illinois Monroe Street United Methodist Church The Nature Conservancy ProMedica Paramount Advantage Neckers, Sue & Doug RL Creative Read for Literacy/Claire’s Day Never More Used Books SMG Stranahan Theater Ohio Education Association The Arts Commission Sylvania Historical Village Ohio State University Wexner Medical Toledo Community Foundation Sylvania Recreation Center Toledo Pride The Guild of Artists and Artisans Ottawa Hills Schools Toledo Public Schools Toledo Ballet Owens-Illinois Toledo Symphony Orchestra Toledo Botanical Garden Paula Brown Shop Toledo Warehouse District Association Toledo Choral Society Porter, Wright, Morris & Arthur LLP Total Package Global Toledo French Alliance Rossford Convention Bureau University of Toledo Toledo Opera Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, LLP UT College of Business and Innovation Toledo Swiss Singers Spangler Candy Co. Valentine Theatre Sunset Communities Toledo Symphony Orchestra Sylvania Vet Toledo Zoo Special Thanks University Musical Society TARTA, Toledo Area Regional Transit The Clement O. Miniger Memorial University Productions Authority Foundation Taylor Automotive UT College of Arts & Letters Ten Thousand Villages UT College of Law The Andersons UT Department of Music The Blade

8 2018 Annual Report on Content and Service to the Community THESUPPORT PUBLIC BROADCASTING FOUNDATION OF NORTHWEST OHIO STATEMENTS OF ACTIVITIES Statement of Activities

Year Ended June 30, 2018 Temporarily Permanently Unrestricted Restricted Restricted Total Support and revenue Memberships - TV and FM $ 1,246,348 $ - $ - $ 1,246,348 OET Network Commission 695,682 - - 695,682 Corporation for Public Broadcasting 965,569 - - 965,569 Underwriting 243,041 - - 243,041 State Department of Education 137,863 - - 137,863 State Department of Human Services 51,625 - - 51,625 Special events, less direct expenses of $301,099 in 2018 and $296,807 in 2017 298,901 - - 298,901 Projects and production services 355,187 5,000 - 360,187 School contracts 14,115 81,488 - 95,603 Contributions - businesses, foundations, and governments 41,483 99,599 - 141,082 Investment gains, net 219,156 - - 219,156 Change in fair value of beneficial interest in perpetual trust - - 4,620 4,620 Other 164,987 - - 164,987 Net assets released from restrictions 254,317 (254,317) - -

Total support and revenue 4,688,274 (68,230) 4,620 4,624,664

Expenses Program services TV programming 884,241 - - 884,241 TV production 653,267 - - 653,267 TV and FM engineering 212,062 - - 212,062 FM programming and production 618,161 - - 618,161 TV educative services 173,774 - - 173,774 Public information 107,080 - - 107,080

Total program services 2,648,585 - - 2,648,585

Supporting services Development 279,179 - - 279,179 Interdepartmental services 1,113,488 - - 1,113,488 Administrative 466,303 - - 466,303

Total supporting services 1,858,970 - - 1,858,970

Total expenses 4,507,555 - - 4,507,555

Changes in net assets 180,719 (68,230) 4,620 117,109

Net assets, beginning of year 10,430,710 778,666 79,343 11,288,719

Net assets, end of year $ 10,611,429 $ 710,436 $ 83,963 $ 11,405,828

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The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements.

3 SUMMARY WGTE touched the lives of nearly 300,000 people last year and produced more than 500 local television, radio, and online programs.

Thank you to our • 200,000 TV households watch WGTE TV each week. • 75,000 people listen to FM 91 each week. supporters, underwriters, • 4,441 early childhood educators are trained annually. community partners, and • 6,139 K-12 teachers receive professional development grantors for your generous annually. support this year. • 165 radio stations worldwide aired WGTE FM’s syndicated series “New Music from Bowling Green.” Financial investments • 71 new educational presentations were produced by WGTE and distributed via the Knowledge Stream website for free in WGTE Public Media streaming anytime. enable us to make our • 700 children and their families attended the East Toledo area a better and richer Storybook Festival. • More than 3,608 people attended 57 free public program place to live in. preview events.

WGTE Public Media educates the community through technology, including television, online streaming and radio and innovative professional development for educators. We strive to extend the value of educational and entertaining programming beyond just broadcast through a variety of outreach efforts – all to bring together our community for a shared, learning experience.

WGTE HD • WGTE Create • WGTE PBS Kids • WGTE FM 91 • www.wgte.org • www.knowledgestream.org WGTE Public Media, 1270 South Detroit Avenue, Toledo, Ohio 43614

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