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Telling Public Radio's Story 1. Describe Your Overall Goals And Telling Public Radio's Story 1. Describe your overall goals and approach to address identified community issues, needs, and interests through your station’s vital local services, such as multiplatform long and short-form content, digital and in-person engagement, education services, community information, partnership support, and other activities, and audiences you reached or new audiences you engaged. KGLT 91.1fm is a 46 year old alternative public radio station which began in 1968 at Montana State University, Bozeman. Known for live announcers playing their choice of music 22 hours per day, KGLT also produces 1,500 to 2,000 public service announcements per year, and offers three apprentice DJ classes per year. On the www.kglt.net website is a Community Calendar that announces lectures, concerts, classes, nature programs, and exhibits in all areas where there are translators. Located on the campus of Montana State University, about one third of the announcements relate to campus offerings such as new classes in departments, recreational opportunities, volunteer opportunities, fund raisers, and information about enlightening students and employees of their rights, of programs of diversity, women's issues, returning vet issues, handicap rights, rape alerts and ways to protect oneself (walking in groups late at night), drunk driver support. Issues on and off campus also include Aids awareness, high blood pressure awareness, bullying, cancer, environment. Montana is a very environmentally aware state, some might call it an 'AG' state because of all the ranching and farming, but it is also very dependent on the tourist trade for fishing, hiking, hunting as well as summer and winter recreation. KGLT is the Emergency Alert System for its 'home' county, plays twice daily avalanche reports and ski reports during the winter, works with schools to announce closings, gives a fishing report during the fishing season. In Montana, there is a meeting of the minds between ranchers and sustainability. KGLT informs the public of City and County open forums regarding environmental and planning issues including water quality, building, parks, and development. The audiences reached are diverse; KGLT ranks #3 and #4 in its home county of 18 stations and works closely with NPR stations in Montana, with work to collaborate and share audience. KGLT is the matriarch of community radio in the state of Montana, offering openness, inclusiveness, and interest in the community. Listener's Personals is a perfect example: There is a daily report of lost animals, ride sharing, etc., with a reliable reputation for helping people connect. The goal for KGLT is to reach more listeners and offer them this familial yet professional inclusiveness, so that they may benefit from all the information and education KGLT provides in music appreciation and public service. In order to grow audience more, streaming has been of great use, and flyers will be posted in all businesses that donate to KGLT for the Annual Fund Drive, saying: "We support KGLT." Advertising will occur in smaller community newspapers for the Annual Fund Drive. Friends of KGLT has been visible at a great friend raiser, The Friends of KGLT Music Swap, a sort of flea market of all things music and art where like minded people can come together, new supporters and old. KGLT helps sponsor community programs such as PechaKucha (community chit chat) and Farmer's Markets and asks that logos be placed on posters and programs for community awareness of the station. Empowering students on the Montana State University campus, reaching out to high school students, and sharing timely information and music with the listeners is part of the vision of this station. It is exciting for staff to have a hand in the growth of a student and to mentor them as they reach adulthood, helping them to live up to their potential to become informed, more comfortable with themselves, kind, and ethical. Jump to question: 6.1 Telling Public Radio's Story 2. Describe key initiatives and the variety of partners with whom you collaborated, including other public media outlets, community nonprofits, government agencies, educational institutions, the business community, teachers and parents, etc. This will illustrate the many ways you’re connected across the community and engaged with other important organizations in the area. KGLT produces "Chrysti the Wordsmith", a two minute, 20 year old program about words and their stories. The series is carried by Yellowstone Public Radio, Billings, MT; Montana Public Radio, Missoula, MT; KCPW in Salt Lake City, and worldwide on Armed Forces Radio and Television Network. "Montana Medicine Show", also produced at the station, is two minute segments of Montana history narrated by Bozeman High School Award winning History teacher, Derek Strahn that airs six times a week on KGLT and seven times per week on three AM stations in Eastern Montana. A book of Medicine Show scripts is coming out and that as well as the series itself will be offered to libraries across the state. Veteran announcer Tim Tate’s Indie Chill Wave Show airs on KUFM, the Missoula Montana NPR station. "Tellin' Ellen", personal 1/2 hour interviews produced at KGLT, air on Yellowstone Public Radio. Montana PBS and KGLT have an ‘in-kind’ underwriting agreement. KGLT is the Emergency Alert System for Gallatin County, home of the transmitter. KGLT makes its services available for Public Service Announcements to every group on the Montana University Systems campuses, the various schools within them, including Business, Engineering, Art, Science, Education, Nursing, the expanding pre-med program, Engineers without Borders, the veterinary pre-program, and the new two year colleges offering associate degrees. KGLT works to connect organizations with students to give them experience in their desired fields. KGLT is very pleased to work with Wonderlust (http://eu.montana.edu/wonderlust/) , the Senior citizen exploration and education program, to inform about voter registration, and health department notifications. Through Public Service Announcements, information is made available about psychological counseling, book clubs, Head Start programs for kids, help with utility payments, cancer support, free dental and medical care, free spay/neuter, free food and clothing, environmental issue awareness, recycling, alternative energy use, senior citizen support, hotlines for sexual abuse, warm lines for mental health issues, and fund raisers for Food Bank, or to help pay a sick child’s medical bills. KGLT provides information about Music Festivals, free summer events like Music on Main, Christmas Strolls, parades, Halloween trick or treating, and the Sweet Pea Festival, celebrating arts, food, music, and non-profit organizations. Groups with which KGLT works: Montana Wilderness, Montana Wildlife, 4-H, Head Start, Human Resources Development Council, Shakespeare in the Park, Montana Spay/Neuter Task Force, all animal shelters, American Lung Association, MT., Montana Shares, Bridgercare (low cost medical choice), Befrienders and Senior Centers, libraries on and off campus, Brain Injury Association, Tobacco Use Prevention, Fair Housing, Arts Centers, Small Business Associations, Montana State University Colleges of Arts and Letters, Engineering, Nursing, Art, Media, Voice Center, Music Technology, International Studies, Job Corps, Adoption Options, Cancer Institutes, Bear Creek Respite (alzheimer's patients), Montana Conservation Voters, Montana Association for the Blind, Women's Voters (informational programs about voting), Humanities Montana, Greater Montana Foundation, and has 80 underwriters (support from businesses). New is Operation Never Forgotten, and more, Organ Donation information, Parent Place, Hopa Mountain and Thrive (child growth), Big Brothers/Big Sisters, think tanks, poetry open mics are included. KGLT has live performances by local musicians on the air. Many performers are young, from the high school or college, but also we had a beautiful performance by an 80 year old man singing 'Country'. We also have young poets do readings on the air, local actors have performed a short scene from a play, the director of the Fairgrounds has shared information about events such as Winter Fest, a real state fair, but held in the winter. Jump to question: 6.1 Telling Public Radio's Story 3. What impact did your key initiatives and partnerships have in your community? Describe any known measurable impact, such as increased awareness, learning or understanding about particular issues. Describe indicators of success, such as connecting people to needed resources or strengthening conversational ties across diverse neighborhoods. Did a partner see an increase in requests for related resources? Please include direct feedback from a partner(s) or from a person(s) served. KGLT brings community members together to combine their voices and their energy to solve and support community issues, educating community about the arts, health and the environment. We have received calls and visits from organizations such as The Women's Center that an individual needing help heard about options on KGLT. KGLT also works with the Office of Student Success. The general manager had an opportunity to send a failing student to them for appropriate help to aid the student in her studies and a number of harassed women to the Voice Center for confidential support. KGLT urges people to make use of their local animal shelters and the measure is that the shelters as well as other
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