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South Dakota Public Broadcasting SDPB consistently Fiscal Year 2016 strives to produce Local Content & Service Report quality programming, unique storytelling, and direct involvement in the communities we serve throughout South Dakota. Learn. Dream. Grow. LOCAL 2015 KEY LOCAL VALUE SERVICES IMPACT State’s most comprehensive source Statewide Television, Radio, Digital Offering communities throughout the of democracy in action, including South & Educational resources via Internet; state a source of local identity and pride Dakota State Legislature, committee nine television transmitters and six through High School Achievement meetings, debates and forums. television translators; and 11 radio events coverage. transmitters and nine radio translators. South Dakota’s source for quality More than 60,000 web users a High School Achievement coverage with Comprehensive coverage via TV, month, ranging up to 200,000+ web 100+ events broadcast and profiled Radio & Digital of South Dakota issues, views to see state basketball across platforms. government, arts, culture. tournament games in March. Only source for comprehensive Multi-platform resource of local & A statewide source for information South Dakota history and documentary state office candidates and ballot issues from state officials and experts for vital programming. for South Dakota voters. news and information. State’s destination for in-depth More than 200 hours of multimedia Over 2,000 educators subscribe to conversations on local and national State Legislative coverage. the Education Update e-newsletter. issues. More than 17,000 subscribers for the e- More than 200 hours of multimedia SDPB newsletter. Only statewide source of programs High School Achievement events. about the culture, history, and issues of More than 200,000 households Comprehensive educational tools SD’s nine Native American tribes. regularly tune into SDPB TV and Radio. Online for teachers with local content, Only source of over-the-air TV for including extensive science resources, 280,000+ hits on SDPB science many remote & rural areas. as well as national PBS content. videos for classroom use. The statewide EAS information Expanding use of social media and 80,000+ photos on the SDPB Flickr provider. outreach to people with mobile devices, site with 11 million+ views. including the SDPB App. The only statewide multimedia SDPB App downloads increased to resource owned in-state. 40+ hours a week of local Radio 3,041. programming. Reliable programming for South Friends of SDPB met all financial Dakotans by South Dakotans. Complete & accessible digital goals for fundraising. archives of local programming & reports. South Dakota Public Broadcasting FY 2016 Local Content & Service Report IN THE COMMUNITY JULY 2015 SDPB was a proud media and promotion partner for “Neutrino Day 2015” July 10 & 11.. Neutrino Day is an annual celebration of science for the public produced by the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) in Lead, SD. SDPB engineers, marketing, and education staff traveled to the Northern Black Hills to the former Homestake Gold Mine, home to the international underground research lab. SDPB Radio kicked off the event by broadcasting a live, one-hour Dakota Midday Innovation from the lab, located nearly a mile underground. SDPB Education Specialist Steven “Science Steve” Ro kusek (upper right) put on captivating science demos for over 1,800 kids and adults who attended the event. SDPB hosted a Science and Art Café with 26-year-old Emily Graslie (right). Born and raised in Rapid City, Graslie is a “Chief Curiosity Correspondent for the Field Museum in Chicago as well as host of the science show The Brain Scoop, broadcast to hundreds of thousands of viewers on YouTube and social media. SDPB Radio’s Cara Hetland and Graslie discussed the intersections of science and art via two venues: Dakota Midday and to a packed audience at Lead’s Homestake Opera House. York University astrophysicist Dr. Ray Jayawardhana, (lower right) award-wining author of the acclaimed science book The Neutrino Hunters, also appeared on Dakota Midday and delivered the Neutrino Day keynote address. SDPB’s participation, helping to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the beginning of neutrino detection experiments at SURF, was made possible by the John T. Vucurevich Foundation, who also funded the public science talks by Jayawardhana and Graslie. SDPB Marketing staff, Buddy the SDPB Bird, and Rapid City native Emilie Graslie of Chicago’s Field Museum attend the SD Games, Fish & Parks Outdoor Campus for Outdoor University, with over 800 attendants, in Rapid City, July 11. In partnership with the South Dakota High School Rodeo Association, SDPB Television broadcasts a two-and-a-half-hour highlights special of the 2015 South Dakota High School Rodeo Finals on July 9 & 12. Featuring commentary by SD rodeo veterans Terri Kissack and Dale Christensen, the production features footage recorded live by SDPB in Belle Fourche during the five- day rodeo event in June. SDPB records local and national artists at the July 16-18 2014 JazzFest in Sioux Falls for a best-of program to air in September and for No Cover, No Minimum radio and TV programs airing throughout the year that feature local and locally-recorded music performances. SDPB Television presents highlights from the 9th annual Dakota Sky International Piano Festival on July 19. Recorded at the Washington Pavilion in Sioux Falls, the series features international musicians as well as two Children’s Concerts and is supported by Dakota Sky and First Premier Bank/Premier Bankcard and the South Dakota Arts Council, as well as local businesses and individual donors. Buddy the SDPB Bird and SDPB Marketing staff engage with more than 2,500 participants for two days of fun and learning activities at the Storybook Land Festival (right) in Aberdeen July 24-25. SDPB Television presents four, one-hour On Call with the Prairie Doc live, call-in programs hosted by Brookings-based Dr. Rick Holm (lower right) and featuring guest medical experts. July episodes focus on Heart Disease, Stress & Burnout, Vaccines & Infectious Disease, and Headaches. SDPB Television broadcasts four, one-hour No Cover, No Minimum programs featuring musical performance in South Dakota. SDPB Television broadcasts four one-hour episodes of Nature Adventures, an outdoors series targeted at kids. Series hosts and South Dakotans Todd Magnuson and Terri Lawrenz invite viewers to find their own adventures in the natural world. The program includes great online educational materials at SDPB.org/NatureAdventures. The show is carried on SDPB Television, several states in the region and nationwide via Rural TV. SDPB Radio records the world-class Chamber Music Festival of the Black Hills for broadcast later in the year. SDPB Radio offers 40+ hours of local programming each week. That includes local news reports every day during “Morning Edition,” Dakota Midday, and “All Things Considered.” SDPB Online offers live streaming of SDPB Radio and SDPB Classical 24; live and archived presentations of live SDPB programming and national news events, and archives of original programming. Over 17,000 members of Friends of SDPB receive the monthly SDPB Magazine, featuring TV and Radio schedules as well as features on SDPB programming and profiles of South Dakota individuals and organizations. Approximately 16,814 individuals receive the monthly e-SDPB newsletter, while 665 subscribe to the SDPB Arts & Culture e-newsletter; 665 to the SDPB Arts & Culture e-newsletter, and 641 receive the SDPB News & Information e-newsletter – featuring SDPB News top local stories and features. In addition, 1,700+ children receive the Buddy’s Birdhouse electronic newsletter, featuring recommended books, healthy foods, and learning activities, while over 500 parents and educators receive the monthly children & Education electronic newsletter. AUGUST 2015 SDPB Online releases the SDPB App – a free download to help South Dakotans connect with live SDPB radio, live-stream SDPB events like high school tournaments and concerts, and get calendar information on SDPB kids and family activities on their mobile devices. SDPB presents Fiddles & Friends (right), an evening of fiddle and Americana music at the Strawbale Winery near Renner, SD, August 22. The program features three prominent Midwest fiddlers: SDPB’s Owen DeJong, South Dakotan Kenny Putnam, and Tom Schaefer. SDPB Radio News airs a special series of news reports in conjunction with the 75th annual Sturgis Bike Rally (lower right), held August 3-9. Reporters look at the economic impact of the rally on South Dakota, as well as the rally’s history, and how law enforcement confronts the challenges of crowds-management, drugs, and sex trafficking. SDPB’s Science Steve, Buddy the SDPB Bird and SDPB Marketing staff present children’s and family activities to over 4,000 participants at the SDPB booth, August 1, at the SD Games, Fish & Parks “Outdoor University-East,” August 1, at the Outdoor Campus in Sioux Falls. SDPB Television produces two live-audience recordings of the SDPB Radio program Rock Garden Tour – the quirky show about life and gardening in South Dakota. Titled Soul Butter & Hogwash: A Fancy Barn Tour, two programs play to packed houses, or barns, including one at the Governor Dennis and Linda Daugaard barn in rural Dell Rapids as well as Senator Bernie & Myrna Hunhoff’s barn near Yankton (right). SDPB Television presents three one-hour On Call with the Prairie Doc programs featuring topics on end-of-life issues, diabetes and “ask anything,” for live, professional medical advice for South Dakotans. SDPB Television presents two, one-hour No Cover, No Minimum programs featuring musical performance in South Dakota. SDPB Radio offers 40+ hours of local programming each week. That includes SDPB’s popular classical music program Morning Classics with Owen DeJong that airs for three hours on weekdays from 9am to Noon. The show features classical performance in South Dakota on Wednesdays as part of “South Dakota Season Ticket.” On Fridays, dozens of listeners from around the state call or email to request their classical favorites.