ANNUAL REPORT Hawaii Public Radio FOR 2014 Radio with vision. Listen and see. page 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS ANNUAL REPORT FOR 2014 Letter from President & General Manager . page 3 Where to Listen to HPR . 3 Charts of Income and Expenses FY2014 . 3 By the Numbers . 3 Tradewinds Across Hawai‘i: Building a Statewide Service . 4 Aerodynamic: Managing Our Unique Business Model . 5 Lively Air: Programming Updates . 5 A Buzz in the Air: Saving Energy Costs with Wefficiency . 6 Airing Out: HPR’s Outreach Initiatives . 6 First-Class Folk: Our Members, Volunteers, and Workplace . 6 HPR-1 Program Guide . 8 HPR-2 Program Guide . 9 Mission Statement . 10 Board of Directors . 10 Staff, Program Hosts, and Content Contributors . 10 KAHU 91.7 Charter Members . 10 Program Underwriting and Corporate Support . 12 Foundations and Trusts . 13 HPR Legacy Society and Endowment Gifts . 13 Leadership Circle Giving . 13 Memorial Gifts and Gifts in Honor . 16 Sustaining Members . 16 Pledge Drive Thank You Gift and Food Donors, Volunteer Groups (2014) . 27 Law Firm Sponsors for “Say-a-Nice-Thing-About-a-Lawyer Day” . 28 Contact Information . 28 Hawaii Public Radio Radio with vision. Listen and see. ANNUAL REPORT FOR 2014 HPR-1 ALOHA! NEWS MAGAZINES AND FINE ARTS When looking for an adjective to describe Hawai‘i Public Radio, the one that scampers into my mind the quickest is “unlikely.” There’s a lot about HPR that’s unlikely, including the fact that it exists at all. KHPR 88.1 Two member-supported networks, spanning a sub-tropical island chain three thousand miles from the Honolulu (O‘ahu and Kaua‘i) next service station, providing high-quality radio for grown-ups 48 hours a day, more than a quarter of it homemade, operating largely out of a basement? K203EL 88.5 (serving parts of East O‘ahu) Unlikely. Preposterous, even. Nonetheless, here we are. KKUA 90.7 But, something’s been going on with HPR over the last year or two that promises to raise simple unlike- lihood to the level of the paradoxical. Wailuku (Maui) heard on Maui, Moloka‘i, Lāna‘i & West Hawai‘i It started with a fairly simple idea. Traditionally, as you know, we have urged our listeners, during our semi-annual on-air fundraisers, to make a one-time donation KANO 91.1 to help pay for the cost of delivering our service. It’s been effective, but it’s not Hilo (Hawai‘i Island) a business model that lends itself to stability. Instead, we thought, why not en- K234AN 94.7 courage listeners to support us in the same way you subscribe to a magazine, or a Waimea (Hawai‘i Island) cable TV service, or an internet provider? Why not just ask for a regular, ongoing K269GD 101.7 monthly donation/subscription charged to your credit card, until you ask us to stop? Wouldn’t that make more sense for everyone? We could call it a “Sustaining Moloa‘a (Kaua‘i) Membership,” to underline the objective of keeping HPR healthy. That was the simple idea. Now many of you have embraced it enthusiastically, HPR-2 and the results are proving transformative. Nearly 3,000 of you are now sustain- NEWS, LOCAL TALK, AND MUSIC ing members, providing almost a quarter of our membership revenues…revenues upon which we can rely. And, here comes the paradoxical part: Although we are KIPO 89.3 continuing to budget HPR to keep pace with always-rising expenses…and even to Honolulu (O‘ahu and Kaua‘i) expand and enhance our service a little bit each year… we are currently preparing BY THE for our Spring ’15 on-air campaign – with a goal $34,000 less than the last one, a KIPM 89.7 declining trend we hope continues into the future. NUMBERS Waikapū (Maui) heard on Maui, Moloka‘i, Lāna‘i & West Hawai‘i This puts a whole new spin on the HPR tradition of doing more with less, and we thank you for helping to make it possible. And, if you’re not yet a sustaining mem- 175,000* KIPH 88.3 ber…please, consider the possibilities. Listeners Per Week Hāna (Maui) 11,977 KHPH 88.7 HPR Members Kailua-Kona (Hawai‘i Island) 2,767 KIPL 89.9 Michael Titterton Sustaining Members Līhu‘e (Kaua‘i) President & General Manager 1,600 KAHU 91.7 Interviews On Pāhala (Hawai‘i Island) Program & Special Events 1% The Conversation Program & Special Events 1% Insurance 1% Per Year Foundation 1% Equipment/Supplies 1% MORE WAYS TO LISTEN Temp Restricted 1% Leases/Rents 3% 425 Volunteers Per LIVE STREAMING In-kind Donations 2% Repair/Maintenance 3% Pledge Drive www.hawaiipublicradio.org Endowments 4% Telcom/Postage/Printing 4% www.hpr2.org CPB Grant 6% Contract Services 5% 84 Misc. 7% Utilities 9% CABLE BROADCASTS Programs Oceanic Time Warner 20 Channels 864 (HPR-1) and 865 (HPR-2) Locally Produced Hawaiian Telcom TV Membership Programming Programs Underwriting 55% 39% Channels 661 (HPR-1) and 662 (HPR-2) 23% Support 12 MOBILE APPS Services Frequencies/Stations Income FY14 Expenses FY14 34% “Hawaii Public Radio” on 2 App Store (iOS) and $5,227,345 $4,498,322 Program Streams Google Play™ (Android™) For further details, see HPR’s Audited Financial Report 2014 at hawaiipublicradio.org. *(Arbitron 2014) page 3 That’s something of a rallying cry here at HPR and our promise to you that the service we deliver every minute of every day strives to IT’S ALL ABOUT be of a quality worthy of you, our discerning members, listeners, and underwriters. THE AIR Please enjoy this record of some of the station’s recent accomplishments, made possible by your support. TRADEWINDS ACROSS HAWAI‘I BUILDING A STATEWIDE SERVICE long-held dream of HPR’s Board and staff, providing two quality program A streams to the entire state, is within KAHU 91.7 Charter Members Jane Arthur and Kurt Corbin sight. In the last two years, the acquisition of licenses in the northernmost and southernmost KAHU ON HAWAI‘I ISLAND wai‘i Electric Light Company, KTA Super Stores regions of the Hawaiian island chain has al- In late 2013, HPR acquired the license to broad- (in memory of Koichi and Taniyo Taniguchi, lowed us to serve more communities, make the cast HPR-2 over the former community radio founders of KTA Super Stores and K. Taniguchi, acquaintance of some remarkable residents, station KAHU-FM 91.7 in Pāhala, Hawai‘i. This Ltd.), and the McInerny Foundation showed and inch even closer to the realization of a truly allowed for the restoration of service to the their generous community spirit. statewide radio network. Ka‘ū district, much of which had been without access to vital emergency and civil defense We’re avid fans and supporters of HPR-1 KIPL ON KAUA‘I information. (KANO 91.1) and eager to see the completion For some time now, our transmitters on O‘ahu’s of the second transmitter in East Hawai‘i for North Shore have been beaming both HPR- This license also allowed HPR to begin build- KAHU. We support HPR because we believe 1 and HPR-2 to the east and south sides of ing capacity to extend coverage to East Ha- that access to a strong, credible, local news Kaua‘i, approximately 85 miles away. With the wai‘i, the final region to receive our second source is essential for a community’s well-be- installation of a transmitter on Kaua‘i’s Mount program stream. ing. We look forward to more good radio from Kāhili, KIPL 89.9 (HPR-2) went on the air in Au- HPR-2, linking us to local and international gust 2013. The HPR-2 frequency now reaches In January 2015, the East Hawai‘i HPR-2 trans- “thinking people” news and entertainment in- from Kekaha on the southwest to Anahola on mitter project met and exceeded its fundraising cluding BBC, Wait, Wait…Don’t Tell Me!, Fresh the northeast – completing coverage on the goal of $150,000 (an amount originally deter- Air, jazz, blues, and Kanikapila Sunday. Garden Island. mined to cover projected costs of a state-of- – Barbara A. Hastings, the-art transmitter and antenna, engineering KAHU 91.7 Charter Member I am new to Kaua‘i and I wanted to join HPR as and legal services, and the first year of over- a sustaining member, as I have lived in Wash- head). Equipment has now been ordered and Hawai‘i Island has also been the source of much ington and Oregon and always was a member is on en route, while the complex negotiations activity for our News department with the and I want to continue that tradition. Very proceed for the lease of the transmitter site. active (June 27) lava flow. News Director Bill glad you are here [on Kaua‘i]. It makes me feel Dorman, general assignment reporter Molly happy to have the familiar NPR available as it Like all previous transmitter funding campaigns, Solomon, and Hawai‘i Island correspondent is the only station I ever listen to. this project was a grassroots effort. 271 indi- Sherry Bracken have filed numerous stories and – Terry Waters, HPR member, vidual charter members, as well as corporate HPR has responded to requests from NPR for Kapa‘a resident donors the Atherton Family Foundation, Ha- updates on the lava’s advance towards Pāhoa. page 4 an outpouring of last-minute support. The On HPR-2, Applause in a Small Room, one of our “happy ending” will long be remembered, not newer station-produced programs brings back just for its record-breaking total, but because the magic of performances in our own Atherton it was dramatic demonstration of the essential Performing Arts Studio and elsewhere.