From the President... How You Can Support KVNF It’s been a big year for KVNF! We gave a heartfelt farewell to long-time manager and Executive • Volunteer your time and lend KVNF a hand. Director Sally Kane who steered the station well for over 10 years. Thanks for our beautiful, Answer phones, help with mailings, join well-equipped offi ce/studio building, Sally, your time and talent and your deep love of our events team or become a DJ. Email community radio. amber@kvnf.org to sign up Sally’s departure left the door open to welcome our talented and enthusiastic new General • Join the Turn It Up Club — a group of dedicated Manager, Rick Watts who hit the ground running. Thanks to everyone who helped in this listeners who support an annual fund with transition. sustaining gifts of $250 or more, independent of pledge drives I love being a part of KVNF: It’s such a strong, vital and long-lived (turning 35 later this year), community media organization. With the support and dedication of Board, Staff, Volunteers • Become a KVNF Underwriter or Business and Listener-Members I feel confi dent we can keep this community tradition pulsing for many Member. Support KVNF and maximize your years to come. business marketing budget at the same time • Establish a legacy gift to KVNF in your will From the General Manager… • Donate your unwanted vehicle through our vehicle donation program at www.kvnf.org When I arrived in Paonia on August 1, 2013, I was thrilled to fi nd a state-of-the-art facility staffed with ambitious, • Let us know what you think about our talented individuals who are truly passionate about programming: Join the Community Advisory KVNF and community radio in general. In addition to Board, attend a programming meeting (email paid staff, KVNF is truly blessed to have a seemingly [email protected]) or call the Comment Line at 970- endless number of DJs and other volunteers who give 765-8680 selfl essly of their time, as well as a dedicated board of • And be sure to attend the annual membership 2 0 1 3 directors already well-versed in the fi nancial challenges meeting in October! facing public media as a whole. ANNUAL REPORT This strong team is vital to help us meet the challenges ahead. Shoring up our fi nancials is fi rst on the agenda, not only to meet our program goals but also to weather the funding uncertainties It is KVNF’s mission to participate at the federal level. It’s imperative that we develop a funding model that provides steady support in and refl ect the diversity of its for KVNF long into the future. community by presenting a Part of that funding strategy is also a program goal: To become more relevant and vital to program service that addresses listeners across our large listening region. This report updates you on our 2013 changes in the community’s education, news and public affairs programming and our activities in local communities. For 2014 we’ve information, cultural, and rearranged our program schedule to allow spaces for more locally originated programming Like KVNF on Facebook entertainment needs. and we’re scheduling workshops to train aspiring radio enthusiasts to become producers of Follow KVNF on Twitter their own public affairs programming. Don’t worry, our quality national news, science, arts 90.9 FM Paonia/North Fork Valley and culture programming isn’t going away, but we do want to enhance the dialog among our 89.1 FM Montrose/Delta/Olathe/Norwood listeners. KVNF Community Radio 98.3 FM Crawford • 88.9 FM Ridgway And last but not least, our third big challenge is the rapidly changing technology landscape. PO Box 1350 • 233 Grand Ave. • Paonia, CO 81428 90.1 FM Ouray • 88.7 FM Lake City But this is the fun part....using technology to reach our listeners in new, powerful and relevant (970) 527-4866 (offi ce) • (970) 527-4868 (air studio) ways. Stay tuned! 866-KVNF-NOW • www.kvnf.org 99.1 FM Grand Valley From the Music Shelf In the Community KVNF by the numbers Thanks to music director Candy Pennetta’s Rare were the times in the past year when North Fork Valley Public Radio, Inc., Fiscal year ending September 30, 2013 Income long-standing relationships with distri- KVNF events manager Amber McDaniel INCOME CPB $108,002 butors, record labels and artists, our music wasn’t planning and preparing for an exciting CPB $108,002 30% Fundraising $26,561 cupboard is never bare. Candy added 1,062 new concert, party or fundraiser to bring Fundraising Events $26,561 8% Pledge Drives $106,376 new albums to KVNF’s permanent library KVNF staff, DJs and listeners together. We Pledge Drives $106,376 30% Underwriting $54,262 this year. Our collection is now 35,000 held a birthday party for the station and tiki Underwriting $54,262 15% Donations $43,839 albums strong! In addition to our traditional pig roast, in our final push to sell raffle tickets Donations $43,839 12% Other $17,391 music library, we’re also beginning a new for a luxurious trip to Fiji. We also increased Other $17,391 5% our presence at festivals, adding Ouray to the project to digitize — starting with the new Total Income $356,431 music rolling into the station every day. Paonia and Ridgway summer concert lineup as well as Cherry Days and the BMW Rally. EXPENSES In the News Program $292,141 76% Expenses KVNFs regional news team, which this year Program director Ali Lightfoot expanded Pass Administrative $64,341 17% Program $292,141 included Travis Bubenik, Marty Durlin, the Mic, KVNF’s youth reporting project, to Fundraising $17,639 4% Administrative $64,341 Brian Cambria and Eric Goold, is delivering Lake City, where the kids are putting together Facilities & Equipment $11,199 3% Fundraising $17,639 more — and more timely — headlines, a mining history of Hinsdale County. Pass the Total Expense $385,320 Facilities & Equipment $11,199 Mic continues in the North Fork Valley as analysis and feature stories to listeners Complete financials are available on our website at www.kvnf.org across our 10,000-square-mile listening well, where young reporters cover everything area. Travis spearheaded the expansion from agriculture to coal to alternative energy of our signature regional newscast, in to the arts. KVNF is YOUR community radio station! Every day addition to the 8 am broadcast, after staff, board members and our 70+ volunteer DJs Morning Edition, you can now tune into iSeeChange, our groundbreaking, crowd- work to inform, enrich and connect the communities the regional newscast at 5:50 pm, at the sourced climate reporting project, continues, of our region. Involve yourself in the station and let tail end of All Things Considered. and was recently named one of the top citizen us know how we can make KVNF even better. science projects of 2013 by Scistarter.com, News features now also include farm and a citizen science blog. Check it out at food reporting from Luke Runyon with TheAlmanac.org and become a citizen- KVNF Staff Board of Directors — 2013 KUNC and Harvest Public Media, and reporter! Rick Watts Jeff Reynolds Linda Bacigalupi, Hotchkiss — President “Connect the Drops,” a series on water General Manager Operations Manager John Moore, Crawford — Vice President issues in the Colorado River Basin produced A feature based [email protected] [email protected] in collaboration on community Jill Spears, Paonia — Treasurer with KDNK. We’ve interviews and Ali Lightfoot Candy Pennetta Catherine Zachman, Paonia — Secretary proudly continued to produced by Program Director Music Director Wiley Freeman, Montrose air Capitol Coverage Travis Bubenik, [email protected] [email protected] Jay Canode, Paonia from reporter Bente Ali Lightfoot, and Michele Follis, Montrose Birkeland, keeping volunteer Joanna Travis Bubenik Philip Hassinger Cally Carswell, Paonia listeners up to date on Calabrese was News Director Finance Manager Felix Belmont, Paonia, Director Emeritus the gun control, civil a finalist in the [email protected] [email protected] 24-hour Radio Race, a national competition unions and marijuana Amber McDaniel hosted by KCRW. Congrats Travis, Ali and debates, among many Underwriting & Events Manager Joanna! others, in the state [email protected] Thanks for your support legislature.