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2011 Annual Report 2011 Annual Report Public Media for Central Indiana Table of Contents Message from the President and the Board Chair 1 WFYI Community Engagement 2 WFYI Public Television 3 Mission WFYI Public Radio 4 As a trusted catalyst for lifelong WFYI Interactive Media/IRIS 5 learning, WFYI Public Media engages and enriches our community through Community Events 6 distinctive programs and services. Volunteers 7 2011 Awards 8 Vision The Year in Brief 9 WFYI Public Media is a center of 2011 Financial Review 13 discovery for all ages. Through unique 2011 Leadership Giving 14 programs, services and emerging technologies, we will be a leading MIPB Board/WFYI Senior Staff 25 community resource, empowering people to discover their world, broaden their horizons and become active participants in shaping the future. Through these efforts, WFYI builds communities and strengthens families in central Indiana. “The informed, compelling programming is invaluable, especially when compared to the offerings on commercial television. The same is true of public radio. It’s Front cover: Above: my principal From Top: Sid the Science Kid greets fans at Let’s Production of The Indianapolis: The 2010 (and most reliable) Meet PBS KIDS in the Park; Big Bird on WFYI’s International Violin Competition of Indianapolis; Sesame Street; Dr. Michael Twyman with Gwen Public television host Zonya Foco; Elmo greets fans news source.” Iffil, host of Washington Week on PBS; NPR’s Steve at Let’s Meet PBS KIDS in the Park. – Joan, a member Inskeep and WFYI’s Scott Hoke; The Cat in the Hat in Indianapolis at WFYI’s 40th Anniversary Celebration. Back cover: Singer Brenda Williams; Grandpa Harlow; Puzzlemaster Will Shortz. 2011 Message from the President and the Board Chair WFYI President & CEO Lloyd Wright and WFYI Board Chair Barbara Branic. As we reflect on the past year On the radio, Hoosiers were kept of service to the Central Indiana informed by a news team that earned four community, we would like to thank you for your awards from the Indianapolis chapter of the SPJ and commitment to WFYI Public Media. Your contributions one Spectrum Award from the IBA. WFYI Public Radio was not only make the award-winning television and radio also voted the best radio station in Central Indiana by the programming possible, they also strengthen our readers of NUVO. community by allowing WFYI to create the community Your support also reaches beyond the broadcasts and engagement and encourage important dialogue in a way directly into the lives of residents across the state. Among that only public service media can. its many community engagement efforts throughout the Thanks to the generosity of individual members, year, WFYI encouraged conversations about the state of volunteers, corporate sponsors and community partners, education in Indiana and joined the American Graduate WFYI has been able to sustain its high level of service and initiative to improve high school graduation rates. And, has continued to amplify the voices of the Central Indiana Indiana Reading and Information Services continued to community. Here is just a sample of what we achieved serve as an around-the-clock communications link for together in 2011: Hoosiers who are print impaired. WFYI continued to produce quality local television Thank you for making the commitment to support WFYI programming, earning five regional Emmy Awards, Public Media and our efforts to amplify the voices of the one Spectrum Award from the Indiana Broadcasters Central Indiana community. We truly could not do the Association and 11 awards from the Indianapolis chapter work we do without you. of the Society of Professional Journalists. Lloyd Wright Barbara Branic President & CEO Board Chair WFYI Public Media Metropolitan Indianapolis Public Broadcasting 2011 1 WFYI Community Engagement Public media is unique in its public service mission and and Melinda Gates Foundation and America’s Promise WFYI’s focus on community engagement and education Alliance. As the initiative progresses, WFYI will build sets it apart from other broadcasters. WFYI’s efforts partnerships with schools, community organizations, extend radio and television programming through parents and others to host teacher town halls, produce community conversations, workshops, forums, training television and radio broadcasts, and provide resources to opportunities and tools for educators and students. schools and teachers, all with the aim of raising awareness and encouraging action. Community engagement offers many opportunities for dialogue in the Central Indiana community. Throughout The Spirited Chase also returned to WFYI in 2011 with the year, thousands of residents participated in the theme of Body of Change. The partnership with the conversations about education, livability and civil society Spirit and Place Festival was another huge success with in Indiana. WFYI, a cofounder of the IndyTalks initiative, 200 participants exploring five mystery destinations in encourages civic dialogue about Indiana’s future through our community that provoked some curiosity and helped events and discussions. participants think about their bodies in new ways. Through community engagement, WFYI also laid WFYI provides Indiana educators with online professional the groundwork for constructive conversations development through PBS TeacherLine. The convenient about education in Indiana through The American online courses are one way teachers can maintain Graduate initiative, a first of its kind partnership with their certification and improve student outcomes. PBS local public media stations, schools and Learning Media offers educators tens of thousands of community organizations to address free digital assets to enhance the classroom experience. the high school drop out crisis. Indianapolis is one of 20 cities involved with the initiative funded by grants from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the Bill Center: Mark Miles, chair of the 2012 Super Bowl Host Committee, in WFYI’s Reuben Community Room. From left: Brian Payne, president of the Central Indiana Community Foundation during the Reuben grant announcement; Gail Thomas Strong leads the discussion during an American Graduate partner meeting; a classroom. 2 WFYI 2011 WFYI Public Television WFYI broadcasts quality entertainment, public affairs 2011 Local Documentaries and educational television exclusively on three digital channels – WFYI 1 (HD 20.1), WFYI 2 (DT 20.2) and WFYI 3 • First In, Last Out: A History of Fighting Fire (DT 20.3). in Indianapolis A dozen new local documentaries hit the airwaves in 2011, • Five Mayors: An Evening of Insight and Vision including the highly anticipated Indy in the ’60s. This • The Indianapolis: The 2010 International Violin follow-up to the popular Indy in the ’50s, with host Mike Competition of Indianapolis Ahern, took viewers on a journey down memory lane via • Indy in the ’60s interviews, archival photos and video from some of the city’s most memorable moments of the decade. • The Game Changers More Than a Game chronicled the transformation of an • Journey of the Beams Indianapolis Eastside neighborhood through the Super • More Than a Game Bowl Legacy Project. Other projects took viewers behind – Indy’s Super Bowl the scenes at The International Violin Competition of Legacy Indianapolis, and the restoration of the Old Centrum. These programs joined an outstanding lineup of ongoing • Musical Threads: local series like Indiana Expeditions with Rick Crosslin, Expressions of a People Indiana Lawmakers, Indiana Week in Review, Across • Nearing the Goal – Indiana and Inside INdiana Business with Gerry Dick. Indy’s Super Bowl Legacy II WFYI Productions garnered 17 Regional Emmy Award • Open Door: China in Indiana nominations in 2011. Projects done by, or in partnership with, WFYI collected five Regional Emmy Awards, one • Pathways to Success WFYI Public Spectrum Award from the Indiana Television reaches • Self Sacrifice: A Son, a Soldier, a Suicide Broadcasters Association and 11 more than awards from the Indianapolis • Transformation: Old Building, New Life 450,000 chapter of the Society viewers weekly. of Professional Journalists. From top: Gov. Mitch Daniels on the set of Indy in the ‘60s; WFYI Videographer Chris Elberfeld; Judy O’Bannon host of Transformation: Old Building, New Life; The set of Indiana Lawmakers; Rick Crosslin host of Indiana Expeditions; On set interview for More Than a Game: Indy’s Super Bowl Legacy. WFYI 2011 3 WFYI Public Radio WFYI Public Radio provided quality local and national public affairs, arts and news programs in 2011, while continuing its commitment to provide state and local news. That commitment to excellence has not gone unnoticed. The station was voted the “Best of Indy” by the readers of NUVO in the newspaper’s annual Best of Indy special edition. Programming on 90.1 WFYI also earned four Society of Professional Journalists awards in 2011. The award- winning news team kept Hoosiers informed about happenings at the Statehouse, local elections, as well as issues surrounding health, education, the arts and more. WFYI Public Radio broadcasts two distinct services on three channels. WFYI’s main service on 90.1 FM offers a mix of national and local arts and public affairs programs Public Radio for Central Indiana like Indiana Week in Review, Indiana Lawmakers, No Limits, The Art of the Matter, The Blues House WFYI extends its reach beyond its broadcast Party and Sound Medicine – a partnership with WFYI signal through its community partnerships with the Indiana University School of Medicine. Public Radio Franklin College, to the south, and Wabash The service is simulcast on the analog signal reaches more than College, to the west. WFYI provides NPR, PRI (90.1 FM) and the HD channel (90.1 FM HD1). 152,000 listeners and BBC programming on the student-run each week. radio stations. The simulcast agreements That service is complemented by 90.1 allow WFYI to reach listeners throughout FM HD2 – The Point, which delivers such Central Indiana. entertaining and informative public radio programs as Talk of the Nation, Le Show and Sound Opinions. It also includes a variety of local programs like Film Soceyology and Velvet Escape.
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