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39083-1-2_NETVNow Report.indd 1 12/13/13 6:47 PM 39083-1-2_NETVNow Report.pdf PageFoot 1 December 13, 2013 18:58:22 A Letter From The GENERALA MANAGERLetter From The General Manager New GM Mark Leonard Believes in Public Broadcasting as Tool for Connections

Leonard has spent his first months in Nebraska listening to Nebraskans; he has visited communities across the state, from Omaha to Scottsbluff. He sees NET as offering a sense of connection in Nebraska, especially for rural communities.

“We are owned by the American people and operate on their behalf. We earn that trust every day and we don’t take it for granted.” Mark Leonard NET General Manager

“Public media really owns a particular niche that it is best at providing – the As the new General Manager for NET (and only the third in the organization’s really important content like news, educational and instructional television, history) Mark Leonard is mindful of the legacy of previous GMs Jack McBride equalizing access between rural and urban areas. We fill that space. and Rod Bates. “While there is an evolving model, broadcasting really is part of our DNA. “Their legacy is not missed on me; they were absolute pioneers,” Leonard said. “I We can do so much more than linear content now,” he said. “We can allow am honored that they left such a strong foundation.” the community to come to us, at the same time we are pushing out to the community. We want to be at the table, convening conversations that help Leonard, who started Aug. 1, came to NET from Illinois Public Media. Leonard identify solutions and aspirations. Because we are a state, university and public has worked at six public broadcast stations during his 32-year public broadcast entity, we are a unique bridge that connects the arts, health care, agriculture, career, including a stint in South Dakota. There, he said, he started to really politics, all sorts of industries.” understand the importance of public broadcasting to rural Americans. And he also kept hearing about the national reputation and esteem held by NET, then He firmly believes that public media protects the level of trust that Americans called Nebraska Educational Television. extend to it. “While NET is a conduit for national content,” he said, “we also excel at telling “We are owned by the American people and operate on their behalf. We earn stories with deep Nebraska roots.” that trust every day and we don’t take it for granted.”

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Letter from the General Manager. Page 2

NET Foundations/NET Financials. Page 3

Telling Stories. Page 4

Celebrate Nebraska. Page 6 The mission of NET is to enrich lives and engage minds by connecting Educate Enlighten. Page 8 communities and celebrating Nebraska with services that Jack G. McBride and Friends of the Future Societies. Page 10 educate and enlighten.

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Your private gifts are the cornerstone of In the first year following the program support! successful 2012 close of the NET 2.3% Foundations’ five-year Inspire 27.3% Nebraska Campaign, we continued to see friends and donors make gifts 70.4% that pushed the campaign past its $25 million goal. Thank you for your generosity. You have put NET in a Operating Revenues strong fiscal position and ensured Public Funds NET’s future. State Appropriations (47.8%)...... $9,900,000

Your gifts had an immediate and Federal Community direct impact on programming. Support Grants (14.3%)...... $2,950,000 Membership and endowment University Appropriations (8.3%)...... $1,725,000 support helped underwrite our most successful original television programs in 2013: Nebraska’s Capitol Masterpiece; Emery Blagdon and His Healing Machine; and Remembered Voices. These documentaries told the Private Funds unique and inspiring stories of Nebraskans. We also learned in 2013 that PBS was interested in distributing Individual Contributions (15.2%)...... $3,150,000

Great Plains: America’s Lingering Wild nationally. Again, your gifts were instrumental in helping NET Grants, Contracts Television produce high-quality programs with wide appeal. and Underwriting (12.1%)...... $2,500,000

The Foundation also supported several news documentaries and talk shows; the video magazine Self Generated Nebraska Stories; live broadcasts of college and high school sports; and of course, the purchase of national Other (2.3%)...... $475,000 programming from PBS and NPR. Total Revenue (100.0%)...... $20,700,000 We also enjoyed success with NET Radio, including the ability to showcase Nebraska in October through the live broadcast of A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor, which originated from the Lied Center for Performing Arts in Lincoln.

Each year, the NET Foundations for 42.9% 46.1% Radio and Television strive to connect Nebraskans through valuable and vivid 11% radio and television programming, and through live events such as Operating Expenses concerts, social activities, special trips Network & Station Operations and other ways to keep our members Engineering (24.3%)...... $5,025,000 engaged and active. Trips took us from Scottsbluff to Norfolk, Kearney to Managerial and Columbus, the Platte River to Spring Administrative Support (10.6%)...... $2,200,000 Creek Prairie. Building Maintenance and Utilities (4.4%)...... $900,000 This year we bid farewell to NET’s former general manager, Rod Bates. Information We welcomed new NET Foundations’ Technology Support (3.6%)...... $750,000 board members Nicholas Baxter, Lucy Programming & Production Buntain Comine, Dana Falter and Laura Jana. New board officers are Margaret TV Programming and Production (38.9%)...... $8,050,000 Hornady-David, chair, and Carol Russell, vice chair. Radio Programming and Production (4.8%)...... $1,000,000

We have worked to increase efficiencies Program Information and reduce costs and are working and Communications (2.4%)...... $500,000 to add value to benefits such as our MemberCard. We also have been pleased to offer free toolkits to help with estate planning and planned Revenue Generation giving. Fundraising and Development (8.2%)...... $1,700,000 We anticipate a promising future in 2014. Business Development (2.8%)...... $575,000 Total Expenses (100%)...... $20,700,000

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Original Documentaries That Premiered in 2013: Emery Blagdon and His Healing Machine, examined the artwork of the late Emery Blagdon, who lived near Stapleton, Nebraska, and produced an arresting body of art now considered to be of the highest quality and import. Nebraska’s Capitol Masterpiece showcased the architecture and art comprising Nebraska’s magnificent state capitol. The documentary used dazzling artwork, interviews, archival film and photos, letters from the design team, and contemporary photography to place the building in context. Nebraska Stories. NET’s Emmy Award winning video journal reflects the people, places, history and culture of Nebraska. Nebraska Stories offers intimate glimpses and emotional connections to its subjects. Remembered Voices documents how contemporary students learn about the Holocaust through art and music created in the 1940s by people sent to Terezin, a Nazi concentration camp. Weaving history and survivor interviews with modern lessons, Remembered Voices is a compelling look at how voices from the past inform us today. QUEST. NET provides content for QUEST, a multimedia effort in partnership with six other leading NET Sports and college sports. In addition to women’s basketball and women’s public media organizations. QUEST airing live high school championships volleyball; University of Nebraska focuses on sustainability science Each year, more than 200 hours of in girls’ volleyball, football, wrestling, at Omaha hockey and basketball; concerning our food, energy, water local sports programming broadcasts boys’ and girls’ swimming and diving, Creighton sports and more. NET also climate and biodiversity. Visit on NET1. The network’s flagship show, and boys’ and girls’ basketball, NET broadcasts the annual Nebraska netNebraska.org/science Big Red Wrap-Up, provides analysis also broadcasts on tape delay state Shrine Football Classic and the All-star of University of Nebraska Husker debate and speech and state bowling. boys’ and girls’ basketball games and Ashfall Unearthed, This half-hour music football. NET is the only statewide Collegiate sports coverage includes volleyball matches. NET is No. 1 for special features the television premiere network that broadcasts high school University of Nebraska baseball, live sports in Nebraska. of “Ashfall,” an original composition by Rusty Banks and performed by the Nebraska Chamber Players. Children’s Programming Weekdays, NET Television offers 12 hours of educational programming for children. A new addition to the line-up is Peg+Cat, a program for preschool kids that focuses on math concepts.

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NET Special Projects New Voices NET Radio Backyard Farmer. Produced in welcomed association with UNL’s Institute of Ariana Brocious Agriculture and Natural Resources, as new host for Backyard Farmer completed its 61st Morning Edition season in 2013 and is the longest- and a reporter for running locally produced broadcast NET News. She television show in the nation. joined the team Skyworks. Skyworks, a British-based from Colorado film team, spent July 3-10 taking and holds a high-definition video for use by NET, degree from the University of Arizona. UNL, Nebraska Game and Parks and Genevieve Randall, long-term host of Nebraska Tourism Commission. The film All Things Considered and The Verge, crew flew over many state landmarks, was promoted to Music Director. monuments, parks and other attractions Among her duties in a low-altitude helicopter, taking are producing and high-definition video. For highlights, go hosting Friday to netNebraska.org/skyneb. Live, NET Radio’s weekly arts and Shakespeare Uncovered. NET Television entertainment and NET Radio participated in A Prairie Home Companion program. She also Shakespeare Uncovered, a partnership One highlight of the NET Radio year was the Oct. 19 production of A Prairie hosts Morning with Nebraska Shakespeare and Concert. Randall, Flatwater Shakespeare to piggyback Home Companion with Garrison Keillor, live from the Lied Center for Performing Arts in Lincoln. A sold-out house enjoyed Keillor’s take on Nebraska, on who holds a on the national PBS broadcasts degree in flute performance from the of Shakespeare Uncovered. Radio football and on the prairie skies. His guests included singer/fiddler Sara Watkins; Curt Friesen, a farmer from Henderson, Neb., who chatted about the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, has “Shakespeariences” and several video been with NET for 13 years. projects and events were produced. NET farming industry; and Jackie Allen, a jazz singer from Lincoln who schooled Night at Omaha’s Shakespeare on the Keillor and Watkins in the art of torch singing. About 200 NET Radio members Two long-term NET Radio personalities Green attracted the largest audience in attended the afternoon rehearsal and enjoyed a Q&A session with Keillor prior passed away this year. The untimely the festival’s 27-year history. to the performance. deaths of Senior Producer Jerry Johnston in February after a brief battle with Platte Basin Time Lapse Project. In On the Road with NET Radio cancer, and of Music Director William 2011, conservation photographer Stibor in June from a heart attack, left NET Radio went on the road this year, originating Michael Forsberg and NET Television huge voids at NET and for the listening a Friday Live in Kearney from the Merriman Arts producer Michael Farrell began placing audience. Neither are replaceable in the Center in August, and that evening hosting a 40 time-lapse cameras along the 600 hearts of those who knew them. miles of the Platte River watershed in performance of the Nebraska Chamber Players three states, from the headwaters in with guest artist Nathan Pacheco. Friday Live’s New Frequency the Rocky Mountains to the confluence usual home is the Mill Coffeehouse in Lincoln’s with the Missouri River near Omaha. Haymarket. In 2013 the show also originated NET Radio airs on a new frequency in With 500,000 images capturing flood from the Lied Center for Performing Arts and Humboldt/Falls City area, 88.9 FM. and drought conditions, the project is the Sheldon Museum of Art. New technologies A new translator was installed near an environmental monitor. The pair allowed a video stream of selected Friday Live Shubert in Richardson County. aim to continue the project, which has programs in addition to the audio stream. numerous partners including NET, and Radio Talking Book NET Radio in Omaha develop it as a teaching tool. Radio Talking Book provides services to 5,000 visually impaired Quilted Conscience. This film by a NET Radio continued its cooperative program agreement, forged in 2012, with Nebraskans. NET retransmits the former Nebraskan showed how teen- KVNO/Omaha. NET Radio provides Afternoon Concerts and Classics by Request RTBN (Radio Talking Book Network) aged immigrant girls from the Sudan to listeners of both stations from noon-4 p.m. weekday afternoons, originating signal on a subchannel of our radio remember their war-torn culture, from NET Radio with host Lora Black. KVNO provides overnight classical transmitters, free as part of NET’s develop hope for the future and learn music programming from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. Monday-Thursday; 10 p.m. to 6 commitment to service. For a receiver, to live in their new home town, Grand am. Friday and Saturday; and 11 p.m. to 5 a.m. Sundays (all Central Time), contact rtbs.org. Island, Neb., through the art and craft originating from KVNO. Now, each station’s music programming is offered of quiltmaking. statewide.

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NET News received 19 awards, Geothermal: Energy from the Ground including seven first-place awards, Up, co-produced by NET Connects, the in the Great Plains Associated Press Nebraska Well Drillers Association and Radio competition. Honorees included the Nebraska Department of Health Fred Knapp, Bill Kelly, Emily Kreutz, CELEBRATE and Human Services Division of David Hughes, Grant Gerlock, Hilary Public Health, earned a second place Stohs-Krause, Mike Tobias and the award from the American Clean Skies late Jerry Johnston. nebraska Foundation. NET professionals received eight NET Communications professionals awards, including four golds, in the took top national honors for Nebraska Broadcasters Association the promotion campaign “Great Awards of Excellence. Individuals In December 2012, Chadron State Media. In February, the Association Plains: America’s Lingering Wild” earning honors included Bill Kelly, College awarded Ron Hull, NET special of Public Television Stations awarded in the NETA (National Educational Hilary Stohs-Krause, Jim Carmichael, advisor, an honorary degree, Doctor of him the 2013 National Advocacy Telecommunications Association) Gavin Felix and Christine Lesiak. Humane Letters. He also delivered the Award for his exceptional efforts awards competition. NETA awards commencement address. In October, in furthering public television’s showcase public television’s best work NET professionals received three Hull received the Addison E. Sheldon legislative goals. In mid-summer, in community engagement, content Heartland Emmy Awards. Recipients Award, conferred by the Nebraska he received the 2013 C. Scott Elliott production, instructional services and were Mike Tobias and Ray Meints Historical Society in recognition of his Development Professional of the Year promotion. Communications team for Campaign Connections 2012: long-term contributions to Nebraska Award, presented by PBS for his work members are M.J. Winquest, manager; Voter Voices; Kay Hall, the late Jerry history. in Illinois. Diana Fujan, graphic designer; Larry Johnston, Christine Lesiak and Kubert, communications specialist; NET General Manager Mark Leonard The National Center for Media Michele Wolford for Nebraska Stories: and Kristi Koser, multimedia graphic was honored in 2013 for work Engagement recognized NET’s Free Land!; and Kelly Rush, Brian designer. Seifferlein and Meints for Making achieved at his previous position as involvement in the American Paint Move: A Nebraska Story. general manager of Illinois Public Graduate Initiative.

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Virtual Learning Library State of Education Launched in 2012, the NET Virtual in Nebraska Learning Library is a free, online tool The “State of Education in Nebraska” for teachers, students and parents is a two-year initiative led by NET to find appropriate, credible and and 18 partners, including the independent information. The library Nebraska Children and Families has more than 35,000 learning Foundation and Nebraska Loves objects, with new materials added Public Schools, among others . constantly. The online materials A statewide transmedia effort, cover a variety of subjects, blending N-Lighten Your Journey “State of Education in Nebraska” interactive content with rich examines issues and connects visuals and audio. They can be NET’s Interactive Media team, part of Nebraskans to the important role sorted by grade level, topic and NET Learning Services, has developed that innovative school-community media type. More than 3,300 a curriculum for students attending partnerships can have in improving Nebraskans are using this free Paul Mitchell Schools of cosmetology. student achievement. Monthly service. For more information, go “N-Lighten Your Journey” has five programs airing on NET2World have to net.pbslearningmedia.org. modules to help students develop examined the role of poverty and positive social-emotional skills. It the achievement gap, supporting Coffee and Conversation Ready To Learn is the first social-emotional skills high-risk youth, parent engagement, in the Community curriculum designed for staff and STEM education, arts education, NET Learning Services launched Free monthly screenings of students in a higher education out-of-school activities and other Ready To Learn activities in Auburn contemporary films from PBS’s setting. Melanie Eirich, executive issues. For more information, visit and Fremont in 2013. Ready To Independent Lens series are followed producer for NET Learning Services, netNebraska.org/stateofed to view Learn is a coordinated educational by a moderated panel discussion headed the team project. previous programs. experience that connects concepts with audience participation. The learned in preschool, school, after- films are shown in partnership with school, summer programs and at ITVS Community Cinema, Lincoln home to strengthen children’s math community radio station KZUM and literacy skills. NET Learning (89.3 FM), the Mary Riepma Ross Services and the State Department of Media Arts Center, the Midwest Education/Office of Early Childhood/ Theater in Scottsbluff, the Osher Head Start-State Collaboration Office Lifelong Learning Institute and are partners in Nebraska. At kickoff the Malone Community Center. events in Auburn and Fremont, Community Cinema brings together preschool children and their parents leading organizations, community visited interactive learning stations members and public television where they used apps based on PBS stations to learn, discuss and get characters. At both events, involved in today’s critical social PBS characters Super Why! and issues. For more information see Princess Presto attracted large netNebraska.org/engage. and happy crowds. For more, see netNebraska.org/readytolearn. Career Readiness Stories of An interactive website focusing on Nebraska Quilters career readiness, developed by a team from NET, won a Silver Award in A new online website created by NET the annual International Cinema in uses Nebraska quilters and quilts as Industry CINDY competition. Career a way to teach history. “Stories of Readiness is an interactive website Nebraska Quilters” was developed with 11 modules designed to help by Chet Kincaid, NET senior producer users improve basic job readiness. for interactive educational media, in NET Senior Producer for Interactive collaboration with the International Educational Media Chet Kincaid Quilt Study Center and Museum and headed a multi-divisional effort. To the Nebraska State Historical Society. see the site, go to netNebraska.org. To see the site, go to nequilters.org.

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The NET News team and the policy discussions are just produced a number of special beginning. Bill Kelly produced and documentaries in addition reported the program. to daily Signature Stories on EDUCATE Nebraska Taxes: Moving Forward, a NET Radio and contributing half-hour talk show produced and to coverage of a variety of hosted by reporter Fred Knapp looked events. These multimedia/ enlighten at tax policy in Nebraska. multiplatform documentaries How Can We Save Rural America? was produced multiple ways for a half-hour talk show that aired with viewers and listeners to interact. Changing Lands, Changing Hands. Hosted by Grant Gerlock, the panel . . . until He Is Dead: A discussed the struggles of small towns in rural America. History of Nebraska’s Death Penalty NET News welcomed two new reporters. Ryan Robertson, a Since 1878, Nebraska has used multi-media reporter, joined NET the death penalty sparingly. This from Wichita Falls, Texas, and Ariana documentary examined the state’s Brocious, joined as a reporter and history with the death penalty, using Morning Edition host from a radio decades-old public documents, station in Paonia, Colo. press coverage and court cases combined with interviews of experts NET News provides comprehensive in law, history and public policy to coverage of the Nebraska Legislature. provide context to stories of horrific Reporter Fred Knapp and other crimes and calls for justice. Bill Kelly members of the award-winning NET produced and reported this program. News team produce daily stories that air on NET Radio during Morning Devil Clouds: Changing Lands, Marijuana Crossroads Edition and All Things Considered. Tornadoes Strike Changing Hands Additionally, NET broadcasts Nebraska As more states legalize medical gavel-to-gavel coverage on NET2 Soon, thousands of farms will be marijuana, routine traffic stops often World. And viewers or listeners can Easter Sunday 1913 saw seven changing hands and how that occurs turn into marijuana busts along access legislative coverage via NET’s tornadoes rip through Nebraska; the could reshape the industry that drives Interstate 80 in Nebraska. NET News website and mobile apps. Knapp also worst cut a seven-mile swath through the economy in Middle America. explored the growing legal marijuana produces and hosts weekly Capitol Omaha, killing almost 100 people. The This co-production of NET News and industry and the consequences for Conversations podcasts in which he tornado outbreak would be responsible Harvest Public Media examined the Nebraska , where in one county alone, interviews state policymakers about for 168 deaths statewide and nearly effects this ownership change will have felony and misdemeanor marijuana topics of importance to Nebraskans. $10 million in damage (more than on rural America. Grant Gerlock was cases have increased five-fold in the Capitol Conversations can be found $200 million in today’s dollars). Mike producer and reporter; Ryan Robertson past five years. But few public officials at netNebraska.org/news or via the Tobias was producer and reporter. and Mike Tobias also reported. have this on their radar screens mobile app.

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NET Connects diagnosed with a mental illness. The program was designed to help NET Connects works in partnership the audience understand that a with non-profit, educational, mental illness is not a death sentence governmental, community service and provides information on how and mission-oriented organizations people can get assistance and lead to deliver new informational and full, productive lives after being educational programs to the citizens diagnosed. of Nebraska. Content developed by NET Connects is broadcast on NET2 NET Focuses on World, providing a broad audience. Mobile Access NET Connects, formerly NET Public NET increased its mobile focus this Media, has produced several year. At the beginning of the year community-based projects over the NET succeeded in making all its live last year, including: streams available on mobile devices. Now What? A continuing series The “NET Nebraska” app allows users quick access to NET’s live and Audience data show that at least almost a half million minutes. The about dementia and other issues on-demand content, including Big 110,000 people tune into NET Radio COVE player, developed by PBS, faced by an aging population and Red Wrap-Up, Nebraska Stories, high at least once a week. Additionally, provided 28,424 additional views to their families. Three programs were school sports, NET News and more. NET Radio live streaming is a highly 11,842 users. NET’s video streams produced in 2013. Now What? is a NET also launched a “Nebraska used online source for listeners. The were viewed 55,183 times by 36,177 co-production with the Consortium Capitol Live” app for instant access news/classical stream had nearly viewers. for Dementia Alternatives based in the to legislative and state government 525,000 sessions for the live stream, Omaha metro area. In 2013 programs activities. Apps offer our audience collecting 22,275,360 live-streamed NET also provides an important included medical care in rural areas a new way to consume our content minutes. The news/jazz stream had service to the state by live streaming of Nebraska, what the different types and encourage the discovery of the 227,000 sessions for the live stream, selected NET programming and of dementia are and how treatments different types of content we create, collecting 8,994,900 live-streamed extensive coverage of the State differ for the different types. from sports to news to arts and minutes. Legislature and Courts. Some 77,473 streams of NET programming were Pathways to Recovery was produced humanities-focused programming. NET’s social media strategy is to served live, totaling 1,551,929 with the Nebraska Department of The free apps are available for iOS and engage and deliver content to minutes. The combined Capitol Health and Human Services informing Android devices and can be found the citizens of Nebraska across all streaming was 178,407 streams viewers about mental illness and in the appropriate app stores or at possible channels. Facebook users totaling 5,389,046 minutes. what to do when someone has been netNebraska.org/apps. have increased 190 percent and Twitter interaction has increased 80 percent over last year. Older social Nebraskans for NET media outlets such as podcasts and Citizens from across the state even email continue to grow. Podcast continue to advocate on behalf subscribers grew 61 percent and of NET as ”Nebraskans for NET” 19,944 people subscribe to one of volunteers. Federal and state NET’s several e-newsletters. financial support, combined with the During the average television generous contributions of members viewing week, 51 percent of and donors, remains vital to the Nebraska TV households tune continued success of NET. Citizen into NET Television. That’s more volunteers speak up on NET’s behalf than 972,000 people in 350,000 in order to earn legislative support to households who enjoy the variety build and maintain our technology of local and national programming and educational services. Fans of available on NET. NET Television Video NET Television, NET Radio and the on Demand continues to engage many news, sports, arts, science and significant numbers of viewers. kids programs found on the network Videos on the NET YouTube channel should “like” the Nebraskans for NET were watched more than 200,354 Facebook page and ask to receive times by 180,990 users, totaling occasional legislative updates.

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Voeltz* Charles & Laureen Riedesel* AARP Nebraska Bruce & Judy Wendorff* Melvin & Eilene Tekolste* Abendmusik These generous gifts allow NET to produce George Witt Service BELLEVUE Ameritas Charitable Foundation John A. Woollam Bellevue University John Arp local television and radio programs that impact WRK LLC Boyd Family Foundation Art/FX LaRue Wunderlich* Hillcrest Health Systems Assurity Life Insurance Company* more than one million viewers and listeners Arthur & Chris Zygielbaum BENNET Ed Bates MAYWOOD Susan B. Lowe* Rod & Robin Bates* statewide. Farmers State Bank* BLAIR John Baylor Test Prep MILFORD Great Plains Communications Bin 105 Jay L. & Shirley Dunlap* BRIDGEPORT Bourbon Theatre NEBRASKA CITY Katherine Linenbrink* James R. & Carolyn Brandle* Nebraska City Public Schools Foundation Witold Lehmann Nebraska Lottery BROWNVILLE Randy & Janice Bretz* NORFOLK Lincoln Airport Nebraska Office of Highway Safety Brownville Concert Series David & Helen Brooks* Appeara: The Textile Rental Company Lincoln Bowling Association Nebraska Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine CAMBRIDGE Burden Sales Company* Grace B. McKenzie* Lincoln Community Foundation* Nebraska Repertory Theatre Kitty M. Perkins Foundation* Burkholder Project George Tom & Susan Surber* Lincoln Parks Foundation Nebraska Soybean Board J. Richard Shoemaker* BVH Architects NORTH PLATTE Lincoln’s Symphony Orchestra Nebraska State Historical Society Shoemaker Family Foundation CenterPointe Great Plains Regional Medical Center Lux Center for the Arts Nebraska Tourism CHADRON Ken L. & Pat Cheloha NebraskaLand National Bank Madonna Rehabilitation Hospital Nebraska Trucking Association Chadron State College Marian Christensen OMAHA Maggie’s Vegetarian Café Robert L. & Mary Nefsky* CHAPMAN Brian & Nancy Christensen America First Foundation Jan Mahlman Stephen H. & Phyllis R. Nelsen* Milton H. & Kay Mary Stoppkotte* Cline, Williams, Wright, Johnson & Oldfather Harold W. & Marian Andersen Dr. Michelle K. Manning* Tom Nider* COLUMBUS Common Cause Nebraska Anthony’s Steakhouse Bruce & Lisa Mansur* Wayne & Wanda Nielsen* Patricia A. Anderson* Confucius Institute Association of Fundraising Professionals Nancy Marshall OMT! Divine Women’s Resale Fred & Fritz Mihulka Dan & Sidnie Crawford* Blue Cross Blue Shield of Nebraska Chris & Erin Masada* Open Harvest Cooperative Grocery Nebraska Public Power District Cycle Works & Moose’s Tooth John K. & Lynne D. Boyer Foundation Carolyn & Roger Massey* Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) COZAD Lauren M. Davis* Cornhusker Motor Club James McKee & Linda Hillegass* Donald W. & June Pederson* Kurt & Luann McBride Dennis J. Diestler* Creighton University* Merrill Lynch Wealth Management Pershing Center CRETE Dietze Music House Henry Davis Milkworks Cary & Lisa Peterson* Kay Hegler* Dish Roy & Gloria Dinsdale The Mill John & Sigrun Pfister* DAVID CITY Down Under Pottery DRM, Inc-Arbys David & Marilyn Sue Moore* Pinnacle Bank Bone Creek Museum of Agrarian Art Duncan Aviation Alan Dunklau Nebraska Academy of Eye Physicians & Pioneer Printing EDISON Duteau Subaru Durham Museum Surgeons Pittenger & Anderson Inc. Alberta Leising Sinda Dux* Exceptional Artists* Nebraska Alumni Association Vince Powers & Associates FREMONT EducationQuest Foundation Family Fun Cutz Nebraska Arts Council RBC Wealth Management/Spinar Investment Ilene Baumert M. Eighmy Foundation* First National Bank-Omaha / NEST Program* Nebraska Chamber of Commerce Group Tanya & Blake Dillon Carl & Janet Eskridge Friedland Family Foundation* Nebraska Chamber Players Rembolt Ludtke LLP GENEVA Farmers Mutual of Nebraska Carol Gendler Nebraska ChildFind Kay Richter & Diane Wilson Sherry Verhage Wendy & Charles Fast / Consolidated H. Lee & Carol Gendler Charitable Fund Nebraska Commission for the Deaf & Hard Julie Rosburg* GIBBON Telephone* Leonard Goldstein Trust of Hearing Rotary 14 Duncan & Janice McGregor* Finke Gardens Dr. Tom Hallstrom & Mrs. Dorothy Hallstrom Nebraska Community Foundation Rustad Dermatology PC GOTHENBURG First Presbyterian Church Hawks Foundation Nebraska Corn Board Nan Schweiger & Lamont Richards Larry & Jan Gill* Friedman Law Holland Foundation Nebraska Department of Economic James C. & Rhonda Seacrest* Jack & Mary Ostergard* Steve & Kathy Gealy Institute for Career Advancement Development Sheldon Friends of Chamber Music GRAND ISLAND Jay Gerber & Ruth Wenzl-Gerber* Joslyn Art Museum Nebraska Department of Health & Human Ms. S. Snyder* Doug & Judith Camplin* Anne & Stephen Goddard* Gladys L. Kaiser Services* Somnos Sleep Disorders Center Donald M. David & Margaret Hornady-David* Gomez Art Supply Tom Kelley’s Bowling Pro Shop Nebraska Department of Motor Vehicles StarCraft Custom Builders Marval A. Hornady* Jim Gordon Kellogg Company Nebraska Environmental Trust Drs. Gene Stohs, Debra Placek, Alecia Kaufmann-Cummings Foundation* Great Harvest Bread Company Kinghorn Gardens Nebraska Game & Parks Commission Lovegrove, Jeff Tomjack & Martee Pizza Hut Jane & Ronnie Green Bob & Myrna Krohn* Nebraska Health Care Foundation MacLeod-Kozal Gloria Wolbach* Priscilla C. & Edward Grew* Lauritzen Gardens* Nebraska Home Sales Swanson Biggs Adams Family Foundation GRETNA Groundwater Foundation Philip Lee Deanna McArtor Nancy & Andrew Hadenfeldt* Lozier Foundation HAMPTON Hail Varsity Ann Mactier Dennis & Beverly Wall William Hammond Jan Mactier HASTINGS Kathleen Hanna The Gift that Keeps on Giving Methodist Health System Adams County Convention/Visitors Bureau* Lily G. & Robert Hans* Metropolitan Community College Be Ready Nebraska Campaign Tom & Candy Henning* Misao Moore Dale & Elizabeth Behrens Ellen High, Realtor at Home Real Estate A gift to the Jack G. McBride or Friends of the Nebraska Laser Eye Associates Jon Bohlke* Robert C. Hillestad* Omaha Children’s Museum Flatwater Music Festival Humanities Nebraska Future societies ensures that the NET programs Omaha Performing Arts Society* Lynne A. Friedewald & Charles Shoemaker* Mark R. & Deanna Hutchins* you love will thrive today, tomorrow and beyond. Harriet A. Otis Hastings College Indigo Bridge Books Paterson Real Estate Management, LLC Hastings Museum Italiano For You To learn more about the many ways you can Mary A. & Carl Peters D. W. & Patricia Kingsley* Jeff C. Johnson Jim & Pat Phalen Harry & Phyllis Salyards* Virginia & Kyle Johnson support Nebraska public broadcasting please Jim & Deb Raabe Roger & Sharon Selley* Marleen Johnson* Louise Rinn The Well Read Book The Jerry Johnston Memorial Fund visit the NET Foundations' brand-new planned Rockbrook Camera JOHNSON LAKE Kimmel Foundation giving website: netNebraska.org/giftplanning. Tom & Jane Rogers Allan & Ladonna McClure Knudsen Law J. William & Ruth Lind Scott KEARNEY LAFTA You'll find plenty of tools and resources to help The Sherwood Foundation Marla Bouton* The Landing Slosburg Family Charitable Trust Richard A. & Kathleen Hranac* Brian A. & Ardie Larkins you make informed giving decisions. Robert H. Storz Foundation

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University of Nebraska Omaha Friends of the Future Society Frank J. & Shirley Sibert J. C. & Jessie Seacrest Family Foundation Warning: Results may not be optimal. Alison L. Welty KIMBALL James C. & Rhonda Seacrest* OSCEOLA LaVerne Greathouse Estate* Joe W. & Ruth K. Seacrest Foundation Fund* Duane & Carol Jones* The Friends of the Future Society recognizes LAUREL Will Sheehan* PENDER Ella Larsen Estate Helen Simpson Estate* Scott & Katie Darling donors who establish bequests and planned LEXINGTON Clay F. & Beth Smith PHILLIPS William & Elsie Barrett Jerry & Barbara Solomon B. Keith & Norma F. Heuermann Foundation gifts to the NET Foundations for Television and Julia Stone Stuart Estate* Lyle D. & Velma C. Spencer Estate PIERCE LINCOLN John & Jo Stewart* Jane Fogle* Radio. These endowed funds enable NET to Abel Foundation Brian Ardinger and Susan Stibal SCOTTSBLUFF Halcyon M. Allsman Estate* Marvin & Arlett † Svoboda Chaloupka, Holyoke, Snyder, Et Al pursue programming innovation and excellence Richard W. Bailey Germaine † & Walter Switzer Sandy Harrach* Mildred Barrett Kathy Thuman Stephen Johnson & Diane E. Gilles* that will benefit generations to come. Rod & Robin Bates* Dara L. Troutman* Platte Valley Financial Service Companies, Inc. Dennis & Charlyne Berens* Union Bank & Trust Company* SEWARD Margaret Berry & John Stevens Berry Janice Walker & Don Alvord Robert & Maxine Fiala* G. Steven Bock Darrell G. & Lois Watts* William C. Hohnstein* Clayton H. Brant Estate Dorothy E. Wescott Estate* Robert & Becky Reisdorff* Leslie C. Brehm Estate Geneva N. Wheeler Estate Noral D. Wait Clyde W. & Dorothy M. Brian Estate Nevada I. Wheeler Estate SYRACUSE Ruth & Eric Brown* Annette Wiechert* Laverne Buhr Estate David & Julie Zahn ALBION FULLERTON Paul & Dian Wischmann Shirley Burton Estate* VERDIGRE Elizabeth Hunt* Nancy Van Pelt Estate* Opal Wulf Jack D. & Sally Campbell Kenneth & Norene Pavlik* Elaine Wolf* GERING LaRue Wunderlich* Ken L. & Pat Cheloha † WAKEFIELD Hannie Wolf* Mary Harvey* Lyle E. & Marguerite S. Young Cynthia Anne Solomon Curry Jeanne Gardner ARAPAHOE Bell & Sharon Island LOUP CITY Thomas M. Davies † & Mike Seacrest WATERLOO Gerald J. Eller Estate Daryl D. Kinkead Estate Arline L. Clark Estate Barbara Dinsdale Julie Schroeder ASHLAND Rita & John Stinner* MCCOOK Alice M. Dittman* Margie Bartels* Jane G. Hines Estate Valley Bank & Trust, Co.* Wendell P. Cheney Estate* Sinda Dux WEST POINT AURORA GORDON MEADOW GROVE David & Ellen Feingold* Gwen Lindberg* Connie Coute James & Jeanne Walter R. L. & Joan Hodgson Estate* Chris & Joel Geyer WISNER BEATRICE GOTHENBURG MORRILL Kenneth Good Estate* Lowell & Karen Hunter* Louise Frederick Jack & Mary Ostergard* Richard H. & Winifred Cooper* Jose E. & Foy Guevara Estate Norris & Vernice Schwartz Allen T. Freye GRAND ISLAND MULLEN Clara L. Guthrie Estate Joseph Wray Lois Kammerlohr* Henry & Marie Ahrens Charitable Trust Charles A. Jones* Douglas James Haggart* YORK Charles & Laureen Riedesel* Gerald & Joyce † Bryant* Mildred Starr Lily G. and Robert Hans* Cornerstone Bank Tom & June Seitz Sarah E. Caspersen Estate NORFOLK Bill Harris † & MarySue Hormel Harris* Doug & Betty Lynn* BELLEVUE Donald M. David & Margaret Hornady-David* Bob & Michelle Dudley* Philip & Barbara Heckman* FOUNTAIN VALLEY, Boyd Family Foundation Drs. Aileen & G. David Gruendel Renee A. Halsey Charlene Henninger CALIFORNIA Ruth C. Tussey Marty Levitan & Lily Levitan Estate Brad & Brenda Krivohlavek* Barbara A. Hibner Estate Patricia L Fogarty BENKELMAN Arlene Nelson J .Paul & Eleanor McIntosh Marilyn R. Hill Estate* SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA Dr. Kenneth C. Stout C. Roger & Lavonne Nelson* NORTH PLATTE Robert C. Hillestad* ITVS BENNET Jack M. Newell Lillian D. & Wesley B. Eberhart Estate* Jon Hinrichs KQED Adele D. P. Reed Estate Pamela L. & Henry G. Price* Roger Griesfeller Estate Jane Hood BRANDON, FLORIDA BENNINGTON Lenard Reckling Estate* Jess & Harriet Nielsen Naomi & Ron Hull* Frank Dupuis & Mary Teale Dupuis* Robert Donahue & M. L. Sherman* David & Linda Rehovsky Edward & Delores Pullen Mary L. Hunt Estate NAPLES, FLORIDA BLAIR Bruce & Judy Smith* Glenn & Vicky Van Velson* Margaret O. & Oliver T. Joy Estate* Marshall & Mona Faith Jane & Hugh Hunt HARVARD ODESSA Kay Lynn S. Kalkowski* COUNCIL BLUFFS, IOWA Beckey J. Turner Estate Donald T. Eller Estate Earl G. & Ruth E. Webb Estate Mary E. Keef James Hall Edith Solomon HASTINGS OMAHA Dianne W. & Walker Kennedy* SIOUX CITY, IOWA BRAINARD Ardyce † & Jon Bohlke* Harold W. & Marian Andersen Steve & Carrie Kiene* Bomgaars Edwin M. Dusatko Estate Robert C. Frank Gail K. Anderson Robert E. Knoll † & Virginia Koehler Knoll WEST DES MOINES, IOWA COLUMBUS Lynne A. Friedewald & Charles Shoemaker* Tom & Mary Bernstein Arthur & Earlene Knox CoOportunity Health Kathleen & John F. Lohr Neil & Joyce Grothen* Ann C. Burdette Barbara A. Kuhn* CHICAGO, ILLINOIS John R. & Linda McPhail* Eldrick & Elsie Grummert Violet P. Callaway Estate Roger T. † & Shirley M. Larson Innovation Arts & Entertainment COZAD Patricia Kneale Joan Carnaby Louis I. & Rose Leviticus Jam Productions D. Lloyd † & Katherine Wilson Robin & Ann Koozer* Ronald J. Fickler Estate George † and Marjorie Manglitz* WICHITA, KANSAS Margery Monfort Wilson Estate Gretchen Lainson Richard & Thelma Lorene Gardner Estate Carolyn & Roger Massey* † Donlan Foundation CRETE Harold & Elvira McMullen* H. Lee & Carol Gendler Charitable Fund James A. & Georgianne Mastera* NEEDHAM HEIGHTS, Carl & Marjorie Georgi Memorial Fund Lewis & Joanne Seberg Leonard Goldstein Trust Mrs. Jack McBride MASSACHUSETTS CURTIS HEBRON Linda & Nelson Gordman James McKee & Linda Hillegass* Don Helmuth & Judith Clementson* Elenita Anderson Estate Billy E. Tittler & Donna E. Schmidt Tittler Cecilia & Tom Hallstrom, Jr. Ronald McKie Estate MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA DALTON Randall Smith Estate* Dr. Tom Hallstrom, Sr. & Mrs. Dorothy Robert & Phyllis Narveson US Bank Mary Adam Estate HERMAN Hallstrom Robert L. & Mary Nefsky* ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA DODGE Donald D. & Marilyn G. Bartling Richard Holland W. Don & Andrea Nelson AFS-USA Leland W. Steinkraus Estate HOLDREGE Mary Ann & Robert Johnson Wesley & Allison L. Nespor* WAITE PARK, MINNESOTA ELKHORN Laverne & Maurice Edlund Estate Richard & Helen Kelley Kenneth C. Olson Estate* Bursch Travel Jeffrey .W & Susan L. Beckman* Esther M. Miller Estate James P. Kineen Loy & Julie Olson COLUMBIA, MISSOURI Grace Hansen IMPERIAL Gilbert H. Litel, Jr. Estate Donald W. & June Pederson University of Missouri FAIRBURY Donald Maucher David L. & Dora B. Meyer* Michele Peón-Casanova FARGO, NORTH DAKOTA Robert F. Howell Estate JOHNSON Mary Ann Pavlis Karl & Irene Peters Estate Jade Presents FREMONT Edith Durst Estate Esther & Raleigh Pilster Foundation Benjamin & Barbara Rader NEW YORK, NEW YORK Rachel Bayer Estate KEARNEY Diane K. Potter Estate William & Patricia J. Ramsay* SkinMD Tanya & Blake Dillon* Ellen W. Baldwin Estate* Jan Rasmuson Estate Ann Rawley* † WNET Leslie B. & Karen Domina Theodore G. Baldwin Foundation Wayne & Eileen Ryan Margaret E. Richmond Estate CANTON, SOUTH DAKOTA James C. Ebers Estate Josephine Bissell Charles W. Smith, Jr. Estate Vance & Barbara Rogers Estate* Canton Quilt Corner LLC Marcia M. Lavally Estate Elmer C. & Margaret Holzrichter* Sanford V. & Patricia Smith Lynne & Elliott Rustad* SIOUX FALLS, SOUTH DAKOTA Harvey M. Roslund Estate Betty & Royal F. Jester, Jr.* Sioux Falls Seminary Dianna & Herbert Schimek* Continued on back page ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA WETA

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Continued from page 11 SEWARD BRANDON, FLORIDA Robert & Maxine Fiala Frank Dupuis & Mary Teale Dupuis* Friends of Grace Steinbaugh Estate Glenn & Patricia Ohlmann* MCDONOUGH, GEORGIA Isabella Byrne Threlkeld Estate Wake Charitable Foundation Michael F. & Michelle Beach* Elvera Torrison Estate SIDNEY SIOUX CITY, IOWA the Future Donald C. & Marjorie L. Wilson Trust Margaret M. Ehmke Estate Sharon M. Starling Estate PALMER STANTON URBANDALE, IOWA Society Clinton Wegner Estate Dr. Robin Huebner* Evaline A. Fisher PHILLIPS SUTHERLAND WATERLOO, IOWA B. Keith & Norma F. Heuermann Foundation Gifford Leu* Pat Cook The Friends of the Future PLATTSMOUTH SYRACUSE WESTFIELD, IOWA Society recognizes donors Margaret Bennett Clifford & Anna Remmenga John Donald Whitman Estate Roger R. & Jeanene A. Wehrbein WAKEFIELD FRANKLIN, MICHIGAN who establish bequests and RAVENNA Gardner Foundation Gifford E. Rogers, Jr. & Sharon McIlnay Elsie Pritschau Estate WEST POINT HENDERSON, NEVADA planned gifts to the NET SAINT PAUL George W. Wimmer & Ann K. Beckenhauer-Wimmer* Pauline O’Neill Bird Estate Foundations for Television Anne Urban Alt Estate YORK AMSTERDAM, NEW YORK SCOTTSBLUFF Richard † & Susan White Shirley Jean Smith Estate and Radio. These endowed Gloria Applegate* YUTAN BOQUERON, PUERTO RICO Howard & Peggy Atkins Ervin & Marianne Bull David & Marilyn Ludtke funds enable NET to pursue Glen & Nancy Forney* TUCSON, ARIZONA PEARLAND, TEXAS programming innovation Donald Liehs Donald L. & Darlene A. Burgess Henry M. Beachell Estate* RANCHO SANTA FE, CALIFORNIA FRIENDS, NATIONWIDE and excellence that will Louise “Peppy” & Norman Bahr* benefit generations to come.

NET and Nebraskans statewide are grateful for the extraordinary generosity of thousands of Nebraskans and others who support our programming and services through membership, annual and corporate gifts and gifts to our endowment. We wish we could acknowledge every donor individually in this publication, but space constraints prohibit us from listing every name. Please know, though, that we deeply appreciate your commitment to Nebraska public broadcasting. Thank you!

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