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SDPB works diligently to bring news, issues, people, and places from throughout the state to all South Dakotans. SDPB is South Dakota.

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State’s most comprehensive source

of democracy in action, including South Dakota State Legislature, candidate debates and forums.

South Dakota’s source for quality High School Achievement coverage with dozens of events profiled on SDPB Online and SDPB Television.

Only source for comprehensive South Dakota history and documentary programming.

State’s destination for in-depth conversations on local issues.

Only statewide source of programs about the culture and history of the state’s largest minority, Native Americans.

Only source of over-the-air TV for many rural areas.

The statewide EAS information provider.

The only statewide multimedia resource owned in state.

Reliable programming for South Dakotans by South Dakotans.

Statewide Television, Radio, Online

& Educational resources via Internet; nine television transmitters and six television translators; and 11 radio transmitters and nine radio translators.

Comprehensive coverage via TV, Radio & Online of South Dakota issues, arts, culture.

Details of statewide candidates and issues for South Dakota voters.

More than 200 hours of multimedia State Legislative coverage.

More than 200 hours of multimedia High School Achievement events.

Comprehensive educational tools Online for teachers with local content, including extensive science resources, as well as national PBS content.

Expanding use of social media and outreach to people with mobile devices, including the SDPB App.

40+ hours a week of local Radio programming.

Comprehensive Online archives of local programming and reports.

Offering communities throughout the

state a source of local identity and pride through High School Achievement events coverage.

More than 60,000 web users a month, ranging up to 200,000+ web views to see state basketball tournament games in March.

A statewide source for information from state officials and experts for vital news and information.

Nearly 2,000 educators subscribe to the Education Update e-newsletter. More than 17,000 subscribers for the e-SDPB newsletter.

More than 200,000 households regularly tune into SDPB TV and Radio.

280,000+ hits on SDPB science videos for classroom use.

70,000+ photos on the SDPB Flickr site with more than 11 million views.

SDPB App downloads after just over a year of service – 1,700.

Friends of SDPB met all financial goals for fundraising.

South Dakota Public Broadcasting Fiscal Year 2015 Local Content & Service Report

South Dakota Public Broadcasting FY 2015 Local Content & Service Report

IN THE COMMUNITY JULY 2014

• As a media and promotion partner for Saturday, July 12th’s “Neutrino Day 2014” – the Sanford Underground Research Facility’s annual celebration of science for the public – SDPB producers, marketing, and education staff traveled approximately 440 miles to Lead, SD in the Northern Black Hills to the nation’s premiere underground research lab, located in a former gold mine. SDPB kicked off the event with a live, one-hour radio broadcast from nearly a mile underground at the lab. SDPB Education Specialist Steven “Science Steve” Rokusek provided amazing science demos (right) for over 1,800 kids and adults who attended the event. SDPB hosted its popular Science Café, “Weather Whys,” with National Weather Service meteorologist Susan Sanders. SDPB kicked off the event on Friday, July 11, with a special one-hour radio “Dakota Midday innovation” program broadcast from nearly a mile underground at the lab (bottom right). The John T. Vucurevich Foundation funded SDPB’s participation and the keynote talk, "View from the Center of the Universe" by authors Dr. Joel Primack and Nancy Ellen Abrams.

• SDPB Marketing staff, Buddy the SDPB Bird, and SDPB outdoors

program Nature Adventures attend the SD Games, Fish & Parks Outdoor Campus for Outdoor University, with over 800 attendants, in Rapid City, July 12 (right).

• SDPB Television presents a two-hour highlights program featuring the

2014 South Dakota High School Rodeo Finals on July 10, in partnership with the South Dakota High School Rodeo Association (recorded in the Black Hills during the five-day event in June).

• SDPB Marketing staff and Buddy the SDPB Bird interact with more than

2,500 participants for two days of Bob the Builder-themed activities at the Storybook Land Festival (right) in Aberdeen on July 25-26.

• SDPB Television & Radio records artists at the July 17-19 2014 JazzFest (lower right) in

Sioux Falls for a best-of program to air in September and for No Cover, No Minimum radio and TV programs that feature local and locally-recorded music performances.

• SDPB Television presents three one-hour “On Call” programs featuring medical issues and four one-hour “No Cover, No Minimum” programs featuring musical performance in South Dakota.

• 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” and “All Things Considered.” • SDPB Online offers live streaming of SDPB Radio; live and archived presentations of live SDPB programming;

and archives of original programming. • Some 17,000 members of Friends of SDPB get the monthly SDPB Magazine; about 1,500 children get the

Buddy’s Birdhouse e-newsletter, and about 1,500 get the monthly e-SDPB newsletter. AUGUST 2014

• SDPB broadcasts the documentary “Over South Dakota,” a one-hour aerial tour of the state featuring poetry and music from South Dakota artists.

• SDPB’s Science Steve, Terri and Todd of SDPB’s Nature Adventures, Buddy the SDPB Bird, and Marketing staff give kids a close-up look at nature and science at the GF&P’s Outdoor University Aug. 2 in Sioux Falls, which hosts over 4,000 participants.

• Science Steve, Buddy, Terri and Todd and staff join Buddy the T-rex from Dinosaur Train (left) at the Outdoor Adventure Center in Brookings on Aug. 17.

• SDPB celebrates the state’s quasiquicentennial by presenting “North Grown Hardy: Celebrating 125 Years of South Dakota” with Rock Garden Tour (middle left) in concert on Aug. 23 at the historic Matthews Opera House in Spearfish. Hosted by Ted Heeren (aka Flower Man) and Oil Can (Tom Hurlburt), RGT features music and conversation with a focus on the horticultural heritage and plains humor that are uniquely South Dakotan.

• SDPB Television presents three one-hour “On Call” programs (lower left) featuring topics on heart disease, “ask anything,” and skin care/antibiotics and 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, the program gives fans a chance to call in and request favorites.

• SDPB Online offers live streaming of SDPB Radio; live and archived presentations of live SDPB programming; and archives of original programming. The site includes an extensive educational component for home schoolers at SDPB.org/Learn, that includes not only PBS materials, but also an extensive collection of SDPB resources, including dissection videos, program

specific lesson plans, Native American resources, South Dakota History and more. • Some 17,000 members of Friends of SDPB get the monthly SDPB Magazine; about 1,500 children get the

Buddy’s Birdhouse e-newsletter, and about 1,500 get the monthly e-SDPB newsletter.

• SDPB holds the “A Day in South Dakota” Photo Contest as part of the on-going “Landscapes of South Dakota” project and receives over 800 entries from throughout the state. Winners are selected in four categories (South Dakota, Home, Work, and Connections) and published in a 2015 calendar and becomes the most popular membership Thank You gifts to date.

SEPTEMBER 2014 • SDPB Television presents “The Best of JazzFest” on Sept. 6. The two-hour

special features performers from the three-day festival in July in Sioux Falls that brings 100,000+ people. This year’s stars include George Thorogood and Gary Clark, Jr.

• SDPB Television’s features magazine “Dakota Life” premieres its 17th season on Sept. 5 with a focus on agriculture then and now. The half-hour program airs monthly and features engaging, in-depth stories on the people, places and events that make South Dakota unique.

• Sept. 8-Oct. 5, SDPB presents its Meet the Candidates series, providing each candidate for the South Dakota Legislature the opportunity to discuss their campaign platforms. SDPB Television traveled across the state throughout the summer to record candidates for the SD House and Senate. Meet the Candidates was broadcast on SDPB Television and available on SDPB.org.

• • On Sept. 11, “South Dakota Focus,” SDPB Television’s live, one-hour public affairs call-in program, celebrates its 20th season. South Dakota Focus

airs one to three times monthly. Topics include elder care and dying and non-profit fundraising in South Dakota.

• Sept. 4, SDPB Television presents the SDPB documentary “Putting History to Work: The Economic Benefits of Historic Preservation,” which examines how renewing and reusing historic sites benefits the state.

• In Rapid City, SDPB conducts a preview screening of the new series “The Roosevelts” with humanities scholar Clay Jenkinson (right) presenting in character as Theodore Roosevelt on Sept. 6. The presentation is supported in part by a grant from WETA.

• SDPB features Sesame Street’s Sonia Manzano (right) at the Young Readers Festival at the Children’s Museum of South Dakota in Brookings on Sept. 25 and at the annual SD Festival of Books, Sept. 27 in Sioux Falls. As a partner in the South Dakota Humanities Council’s annual event, SDPB brings a guest who takes part in festival’s extensive series of author lectures: presents a booth; and promotes the event statewide on SDPB Television, Radio and Online.

• Sept 30th, SDPB Radio’s Dakota Midday completed the second of four tours of South Dakota as part of SDPB’s “Landscapes” series, documenting iconic people, places and events which help shape

who we are as a people. Producers traveled west to feature iconic places such as Deadwood and the history of Homestake Mine, the history of paleontology and geology in South Dakota, ghost towns and ghost mines, roadside attractions, and a Native American perspective on Lakota icons in a broadcast from Oglala Lakota College on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.

• SDPB’s Promotions Producer Dave Foote earns two regional Emmy® nominations for spots promoting the work of SDPB to the state.

• SDPB Radio launches the “Dakota Midday Book Club” featuring work and interviews by a variety of local and national authors.

• SDPB Radio program “Jazz Nightly” implements twice-weekly hour feature “South Dakota Jazz Stars,” featuring SD jazz musicians and national jazz artists who visit the state.

• SDPB Television presents four one-hour “On Call” programs focusing on Ebola and infectious diseases, leukemia, and dermatology and three one-hour “No Cover, No Minimum” programs featuring musical performance in South Dakota.

• SDPB Marketing hires “Social Media Engagement Specialist” Michael Zimny to conduct marketing and outreach across all social media platforms.

• SDPB Radio offers 40+ hours of local programming each week. That includes the one-hour “Dakota Midday” talk program that airs on Mondays through Thursdays at Noon. It features a wide variety of topics from arts and culture to newsmakers. Often, listeners have the chance to call or e-mail in with questions and comments.

• SDPB Online offers live streaming of SDPB Radio; live and archived presentations of live SDPB programming; and archives of original programming.

• Some 17,000 members of Friends of SDPB get the monthly SDPB Magazine; about 1,500 children get the Buddy’s Birdhouse e-newsletter, and about 1,500 get the monthly e-SDPB newsletter. OCTOBER 2014

• “Dakota Life” airs October 2nd with the theme of South Dakota Destinations, featuring Harney Peak, The Black Hills Horsemen, the City of Presidents statues in Rapid City and the Founding Fathers Exhibit in Rapid City. The program premieres the first Thursday of each month September through May and airs regionally on the Minnesota Channel and internationally each week on RFD-TV.

• “South Dakota Focus” turns its sights on Election 2014 with a series of debates and programs featuring candidates for governor, and the U.S. House and U.S. Senate, as well as ballot issues. The debates are aired live on SDPB TV and Online, rebroadcast on SDPB Radio, and made available on-demand online at SDPB.org/Election14. Also, SDPB’s “Meet the Candidates” series continues to air 5 times per week on SDPB 2. All recorded segments are archived on YouTube and distributed to candidates. The episodes will continue to air throughout the election.

• SDPB Marketing staffs the SDPB booth Oct. 11 at “Taste of South Dakota,” a festival celebrating the food, music and culture of South Dakota in Rapid City, SD. SDPB serves “SDPB&J’s” featuring South Dakota-sourced bread, nut butter, and jam.

• Oct. 14, SDPB presents former U.S. Senate leaders Tom Daschle and Trent Lott in the first annual “Daschle Dialogues” at South Dakota State University (right). Their

standing-room only lecture, entitled, "How Much Partisanship is Too Much? Two Former Party Leaders Discuss How & Why to Rebuild Bipartisan Bridges” is streamed live and rebroadcast on SDPB Television Nov. 9 and on SDPB Radio Nov. 10.

• SDPB and the South Dakota Symphony celebrate South

Dakota’s 125th Anniversary with the “Happy Birthday South Dakota” concert (right). The production airs Nov. 1st.

• SDPB Television presents highlights from the two-week 2014 Dakota Sky International Piano Competition, featuring internationally acclaimed pianists and educators, (right) on Oct. 5.

• SDPB’s High School Achievement Series, in partnership with the South Dakota High School Activities Association and over a dozen underwriters, kicks off on SDPB.org and TV to showcase Boys Golf Oct. 6-7 in Watertown, Girls Tennis Oct. 9-11 in Rapid City, State Soccer Championships Oct. 11 (below right) in Mitchell, Cheer & Dance Oct. 24-25 in Watertown, and Cross Country Oct. 25 in Huron.. The Marketing Dept. staffs a booth at Soccer and Cheer and

Dance, connecting with the public and selling DVDs of the events to help offset production costs.

• SDPB presents two “On Call” programs with topics on Vaccines and Infectious Diseases and a Halloween special about ethics and new medical technology. The program airs each Thursday night at 7pm central time year around, with two repeats per week on SDPB 2 and four one-hour “No Cover, No Minimum” programs featuring musical performance in South Dakota.

• The 6th season of Nature Adventures continues, airing on Sundays at 4:30pm CT.

• SDPB Radio offers 40+ hours of local programming each week.


• Some 17,000 members of Friends of SDPB get the monthly SDPB Magazine; about 1,500 children get the Buddy’s Birdhouse e-newsletter, and about 1,500 get the monthly e-SDPB newsletter. NOVEMBER 2014

• SDPB’s High School Achievement Series continues with three of the most popular events in the state – all covered on SDPB Television and Online. All-State Chorus &

Orchestra plays Oct. 31-Nov. 1. Three days of footballs finals, featuring 7 championships, are presented live from the DakotaDome in Vermillion Nov. 13-15, and Volleyball airs via live webcasts Nov. 20-22 with third-place and championship games on TV – three classes utilizing all three SDPB Television channels – on Nov. 22. SDPB Marketing staffs a booth at the events, interacting with fans and families and selling DVDs of the events to help offset production costs. SDPB partners with area high school media classes to provide students the experience of operating cameras and assisting with production to present multi-location tournaments. High school coverage is highlighted on social media, with photos, stats and live-tweets uploaded directly from the games onto SDPB’s Sports Facebook and Twitter feeds.

• “Nature Adventures,” an outdoors series targeted at kids, begins a new season on Nov. 2. The weekly series, produced for SDPB Television by Caribou Productions in South Dakota, explores the West, the Midwest, the South and Mexico in the new season including South Dakota, Wisconsin, Arizona, the Florida Keys, and the west coast. The show features the excitement to be found when encountering fascinating landscapes and animals. Series hosts 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.

• A new season of “Dakota Life” premieres Nov. 6 with the theme of celebrating the South Dakota Sesquicentennial. Segments included the 125th anniversary wagon train, the newly restored stained glass in the State Capitol, photographs from the Day in the Life photo contest, and the restoration of a one room schoolhouse. The program premieres the first Thursday of each month September through May and airs regionally on the Minnesota Channel and internationally each week on RFD-TV.

• Steven “Science Steve” Rokusek, SDPB Education Specialist, presents popular teacher

demonstrations at the South Dakota School Age Care Alliance (SoDakSACA) at their fall conference.

• SDPB Television features the 2014 Elementary Honor Choir in a television special on Thanksgiving Day.

• SDPB Television presents two one-hour “On Call” programs featuring medical issues and four “No Cover, No Minimum” programs featuring musical performance in South Dakota.

• SDPB Radio offers 40+ hours of local programming each week. That includes the SDPB Radio’s own Sci Fri programs that air at Noon. “Tech Radio” features chat about the latest in computers and electronic devices. “Innovation” looks at the cutting edge science and research taking place across South Dakota.

• SDPB Online offers live streaming of SDPB Radio; live and archived presentations of live SDPB programming;

and archives of original programming.

• Some 17,000 members of Friends of SDPB get the monthly SDPB Magazine; about 1,500 children get the Buddy’s Birdhouse e-newsletter, and about 1,500 get the monthly e-SDPB newsletter. DECEMBER 2014

• SDPB Television, Radio and Online begin the state’s most comprehensive, omni-channel coverage of the South Dakota Legislature, beginning with Gov. Dennis Daugaard’s Budget Address on Dec. 2 from Pierre. The broadcast includes the live address as well as comments from legislative leaders.

• Directly following the address, “South Dakota Focus” presents a Legislative

Preview (top right) looking at some of the expected hot topics when the Legislature convenes in January.

• SDPB Television airs Rock Garden Tour’s “North Grown Hardy: Celebrating

125 Years of South Dakota” (right) on Dec. 6.

• The High School Achievement Series features information and photos

from the 2014 Oral Interpretation championships (left) Dec. 6-7 in Huron.

• SDPB participates in the Lakota Invitational, an educational and sports event featuring Native American teachers and sports teams Dec. 18-21 (lower left). Director of Engineering SeVern Ashes helped with technical issues in webcasting events. Educational Specialist Steven “Science Steve” Rokusek presented two days of seminars for educators in the region’s Native American community.

• “South Dakota Focus” presents two programs; topics include human trafficking in South Dakota and protecting the elderly from fraud. To build engagement in the program, a statewide robocall system was used which generated over 9,000 participants.

• Seasonal programming featuring local content for the holidays includes The Mount Marty Christmas Vespers from Yankton and the South Dakota Symphony Orchestra Holiday Concert on Dec. 24.

• Two holiday traditions at the network continue, presented by the popular host Jim Clark of SDPB’s jazz

program. “Uncle Jimmo” features holiday music, including new Christmas jazz CDs as well as “Uncle Jimmo’s All-Night Jazz Party,” on New Year’s Eve, which broadcasts jazz classics and new artists from 11:30pm-5am (CT).

• SDPB Television presents three one-hour “On Call” programs featuring End of Life Medical Care and Winter Health, and two “No Cover, No Minimum” programs featuring musical performance in South Dakota, including the “2014 South Dakota Rock and Roll Hall of Fame” induction ceremony recorded in Sioux Falls in April.

• SDPB Radio offers 40+ hours of local programming each week. That includes “Jazz Nightly with Jim Clark,”

which airs weeknights from 8 to 11pm. The popular program often features local performance. In addition, a web element, “Jim’s Jazz Notes,” gives fans an insider’s look into the world of jazz, along with history and musing on new and classic performances.

• As 2014 ended, SDPB Radio and producer Steve Zwemke produced a record 39 original hour-long NCNMR programs with only 13 repeated shows, in locations ranging from Sioux Falls, Spearfish, Rapid City, Deadwood, Newton Hills State Park, Vermillion, Hill City, Madison.


• Some 17,000 members of Friends of SDPB get the monthly SDPB Magazine; about 1,500 children get the Buddy’s Birdhouse e-newsletter, and about 1,500 get the monthly e-SDPB newsletter.

JANUARY 2015

• “Dakota Life” presents a new show on Jan. 1, focusing on South Dakota history, with a look at pioneer letters, a project to digitize state history and the origination of “hog houses.”

• The Friends of SDPB with the assistance of SDPB Marketing staff hold afternoon teas in eight South Dakota towns Jan. 3 in celebration of the new season of Masterpiece’s Downton Abbey.

• Television, Radio and Online begin the biggest project of the year – nine weeks of state legislative coverage of the South Dakota Legislature from Pierre, 278 miles from network headquarters in Vermillion. In partnership with the Legislative Research Council, the network offers the state’s best coverage, and is the only media in the state that has full-time staffing during the session. Nine SDPB reporters will cover the session beginning with a live “Dakota Midday” with host Karl Gehrke live from the Capitol, followed by presentation of Gov. Daugaard’s “State of the State” Address hosted by Cara Hetland on January 13, airing on radio, television and online.

• Seasoned legislative reporter Jackie Severin returns to Pierre for the session, while an 8-member reporting team will cover hearings, floor sessions and other issues, including in-depth interviews with lawmakers and newsmakers on “Dakota Midday.” All legislative coverage is made available to SD citizens, law makers, state commercial Radio, TV, newspapers and online blogs, and government proceedings, committee meetings and other legislative work is archived online.

• SDPB Radio offers coverage throughout the session with on-air updates each day of

the session, as warranted.

• On Fridays, SDPB Television airs “Statehouse,” a one-hour program to wrap each week of the session on main

channel SDPB1. The SDPB2 channel presents “Statehouse House” – live coverage from each day’s House session, followed by “Statehouse Senate” – recorded coverage from each day’s Senate session. Meanwhile, the Democrat, Republican and Governor press briefings at the end of each week are aired live.

• SDPB Online offers live and archived audio of the governor’s speeches, floor sessions and all public committee

meetings, with options for e-mail notification for listeners.

• “South Dakota Focus” speaks with legislative leaders on Jan 15, rural healthcare on Jan. 22, and the state of education on Jan. 29.

• SDPB Television presents three one-hour “On Call” programs featuring topics on use and abuse of pain

medication, lifestyle importance, when and why to use the ER , and alcoholism, as well as two “No Cover, No Minimum” programs featuring musical performance in South Dakota.

• SDPB Radio offers 40+ hours of local programming each week.

• SDPB Online offers live streaming of SDPB Radio; live and archived presentations of live SDPB programming;

and archives of original programming.


FEBRUARY 2015

• SDPB Television spotlights “Images of the Past,” SDPB’s

extensive online library of rare, historical South Dakota images (right) on Feb. 5.

• SDPB’s comprehensive legislative coverage continues on Television, Radio and Online.

o February’s “Dakota Life” focuses on art in South

Dakota, including Dick Termes’ amazing “Termespheres,” father-daughter wildlife artists, (middle right) and an engraver of firearms and knives.

o “South Dakota Focus,” now in its 20th year, featured

a live broadcast exploring the topic of the State’s County Site Analysis Program, a planning tool that uses data to help counties identify sites conducive to agriculture-related development and examined domestic violence in South Dakota Feb. 12.

o At the Capitol Lake Visitor Center in Pierre, SDPB debuts its one-hour documentary “Temples of Justice,” (right) which visits 45 South Dakota county courthouses and relates their colorful histories. Speakers include SD Senator Art Rusch (author and expert on county courthouses) and Supreme Court Chief Justice David Gilbertson. Supported by a grant from the South Dakota Humanities Council, the one-of-a-kind documentary premieres on SDPB Television Feb. 26.

o The High School Achievement Series on SDPB Television and SDPB Online returns with online coverage of the

One-Act Play Festival in Sioux Falls on Feb. 5-6; online and TV coverages using two of the network’s channels for State Wrestling Finals in Sioux Falls and Rapid City on Feb. 27-28; and online coverage of Gymnastics from Watertown on Feb 13-14, with TV recording the action for a highlights program the next month.

o SDPB Education & Online present a science session and a math session at South Dakota’s joint conference for

elementary through high school math and science educators in Huron.

o SDPB Television presents four one-hour “On Call” programs featuring diabetes, heart health, family care, and women’s health.

o SDPB Television records events and listening sessions at Tribal Relations Day, co-

sponsored by the SD Depts. of Tribal Relations and Dept. of Agriculture, (right) Feb. 25-26 at the state capitol.

o SDPB Television’s “No Cover, No Minimum” features the South Dakota Jazz

Collective (lower right), recorded at JazzFest 2014, in a new episode as well as three other programs in February.

o SDPB Radio offers 40+ hours of local programming each week. That includes “On

Record with Matt Weesner,” a weekly two-hour music program that airs on Saturday nights. It features adult alternative selections, including many from South Dakota artists.

o SDPB Online offers live streaming of SDPB Radio; live and archived

presentations of live SDPB programming; and archives of original programming. That includes options to watch SDPB productions on-demand via COVE, tune into live Radio, check out the focus of various TV and Radio programs via individual websites for local programs, keep up with state legislative activities live or archived; watch High School Achievement events and/or check out standings and stats; and link to the Friends of SDPB.

o Some 17,000 members of Friends of SDPB get the monthly SDPB Magazine; about 1,500 children get the


MARCH 2015 • SDPB’s legislative coverage wraps up March 13. • Televising, webcasting, tweeting and reporting the SD High School Activities is busiest in March.

o First, SDPB Online posts pictures and updates from the State Debate Tournament in Harrisburg March 6-7 (as well as the Student Council gathering in Pierre, March 26-27.)

Next, SDPB undertakes its most ambitious coverage when SDPB covers the girls and boys state basketball tournaments. Three classes of teams – AA, A, and B, dependent on school district size – play throughout the three-day class tournaments. Each class tournament takes place in a different city, for a total of six cities, on two separate weekends. First, airing over SDPB1, 2, and 3, SDPB Television captures the live action of four games per day from the Girls Tournament March 12-14 from Huron, Brookings and Watertown. A week later, March 19-21, SDPB covers the Boys tournaments, broadcasting simultaneously across all three channels, totaling 12 games per day, aired live from Sioux Falls, Rapid City, and Aberdeen. SDPB online expands the coverage of both the girls and boys tournaments with webcasts, photos, stats and updates. SDPB partners with area high school media classes to operate cameras (below) and to assist in producing from multiple locations. More than 150,000 tune in via the Internet for the tournaments.

o Also on March 14, SDPB Television premieres a two-hour highlights program from the State

Gymnastics Tournament from February.

o On March 27-28, SDPB presents live coverage of All-State Band performances from Sioux Falls online, and SDPB Television records the concerts for a two-hour program in April.

o On March 31, SDPB Television records the South Dakota Symphony Orchestra’s annual Concert for

Young People in Sioux Falls.

o SDPB Radio partners with the Journalism Department at Black Hills State University in Spearfish for a forum on “What is News” on March 26.

o “South Dakota Focus” features a live broadcast with State House and Senate leaders to review legislative efforts completed in the 2015 season.

o SDPB Television presents four one-hour “On Call” programs

featuring medical issues and four “No Cover, No Minimum” program featuring musical performance in South Dakota.

o SDPB Radio offers 40+ hours of local programming each week. That includes the “Dakota Midday Book Club,” (right) which does an in-depth interview with four featured authors a year, focusing on one of their books. The authors are either from the South Dakota region or write about South Dakota. The series links with Friends of SDPB, which offers membership in the club and the books as a premium. Programs are promoted in advance so listeners have a chance to read the featured books ahead of time.

o SDPB Online offers live streaming of SDPB Radio; live and archived presentations of live SDPB

programming; and archives of original programming.

o Some 17,000 members of Friends of SDPB get the monthly SDPB Magazine, which changes from a half-page size to a full-page-size, full-color publication; about 1,500 children get the Buddy’s Birdhouse e-newsletter, and about 1,500 get the monthly e-SDPB newsletter.

APRIL 2015

• “South Dakota Focus” features topics about juvenile and criminal justice reform, cyber security, invasive species in South Dakota, and job training opportunities.

• “Dakota Life” features the theme “from the earth to the sky” – including segments on a woman who had sight restored after decades of blindness; preservation efforts at Brown Earth Church near Stockholm, SD (top right); stories of WWI veterans, and South Dakota’s role in the Civil Air Patrol.

• The High School Achievement Series presents a two-hour special on Television, the final concerts from All-State Band, on April 18 (recorded in Pierre in March).

• SDPB Marketing hosts screenings of “Last Days in Vietnam” (right) in Sioux Falls, Rapid City, and a Vietnam Veteran’s reunion in Pierre, with over 260 attendees.

• SDPB Educational Specialist Steven “Science Steve”

Rokusek presents on PBS resources and science at the SD Early Childhood Education Conference and four sessions at the 2015 Technology & Innovation in Education (TIE) Conference.

• “Science Steve” presents science demonstrations for kids

and SDPB Marketing has an interactive booth with activities for kids at the Youth & Family Services (YSF) Fair (right). Some 10,817 event participants enjoy the science demonstrations and activities.

• SDPB Television presents four one-hour “On Call” programs featuring medical issues and four “No Cover, No Minimum” programs featuring musical performance in South Dakota.

• SDPB Radio offers 40+ hours of local programming

each week. That includes the weekly one-hour “Big Band Spotlight with Karl Gehrke.” The program, which airs on Sunday evenings, features the sounds of the 1930s and 1940s.

• “A Day in South Dakota,” a half-hour documentary showcasing the photos and photographers from SDPB’s year-long “Landscapes of South Dakota” project airs twice on SDPB television. The “Landscapes of South Dakota” project profiles the places and people that “uniquely South Dakotan,” and includes a state-wide public photography contest. Hundreds of entries are received and 12 winners are chosen for the SDPB Day In South Dakota 2015 calendar.

• SDPB Online offers live streaming of SDPB

Radio; live and archived presentations of live SDPB programming; and archives of original programming. The site includes a topics menu that allows users to select topics that fit their interests.

• Some 17,000 members of Friends of SDPB get the monthly SDPB Magazine; about 1,500 children get the

Buddy’s Birdhouse e-newsletter, and about 1,500 get the monthly e-SDPB newsletter. MAY 2015

• “South Dakota Focus” features programs on recreational drug trends, elderly health care (right) and the region’s agricultural outlook for the growing season.

• Numbers of downloads of the free SDPB App for Apple and Android devices continues to grow.

• “Dakota Life” focuses on the bald eagle habitat at the Karl Mundt

National Wildlife Refuge, (center right) invasive Asian Carp in the Missouri River, and the beer brewing at the Firehouse Restaurant in Rapid City.

• On May 3, new editions of “ Images of the Past” premieres,

featuring archival footage of the South Dakota State Fair, and Deadwood’s Days of ’76 Rodeo (lower right).

• “No Cover, No Minimum” presents four musical programs featuring South Dakota artists and recordings.

• SDPB partners with the South Dakota Symphony Orchestra in Sioux Falls to present the “Young People’s Concert, featuring Holst’s “The Planets” which airs on SDPB TV May 3.” (top right.)

• The High School Achievement Series in partnership with the South Dakota High School Activities Association closes out the year with several events: o All-State Jazz Band (right) is followed online May 9 from

Rapid City. SDPB Television records and presents the final performances in a two-hour special on May 23.

o Online covers boys and girls Golf tournaments May 18-19 in Yankton, Madison and Rapid City (lower left).

o From there, SDPB Online follows Boys Tennis in Brandon and Sioux Falls May 21-23.

o SDPB2 Television features live all-day coverage (seven hours) of boys and girls state track and field finals May 30. SDPB Online streams photos, stats and results for the 2-day event. (lower right)

• SDPB Television presents five one-hour “On Call” programs featuring “Ask Anything” orthopedics, supplements, and a non-political look at the Affordable Care Act and four “No Cover, No Minimum” programs featuring musical performance in South Dakota.

• Online and Education Specialist “Science Steve” Rokusek does a school tour with exciting science demos throughout the month.

• SDPB Radio offers 40+ hours of local programming each week. • SDPB Online offers live streaming of SDPB Radio; live and archived presentations of live SDPB programming;

and archives of original programming. • Some 17,000 members of Friends of SDPB get the monthly SDPB Magazine; about 1,500 children get the


JUNE 2015

• A new episode of “Dakota Life” features hands-on hobbies, including USD Anthropology students at a dig site in Peru, the Dakota Sky International Piano Festival in Sioux Falls; native South Dakotan “Reza the Illusionist”; a Sioux Falls woman’s extensive cookie jar collection and the Sports Bowl Café in Tripp.

• SDPB Television airs the South Dakota State High School All-State Band Concert, recorded in March in Pierre.

• Television also records the finals of the State High School Rodeo Championships in Belle Fourche. The completion will broadcast July 9 & 12 and a 2-hour DVD is sold to offset production costs (right).

• SDPB Education & Online Education Specialist Steven “Science

Steve” Rokusek presents science demonstrations for adult learners at the Sanford Health Science Happy Hour event and for over 900 kids and grown-ups at the Sanford Health “It’s All About Science” event – both in Sioux Falls. “Science Steve” also provides science demonstrations at the kick-off for the Summer Reading Program at the Vermillion Public Library.

• Television presents three one-hour “On Call” programs featuring the topics of fear and anxiety and retinal health. and three “No Cover, No Minimum” programs featuring musical performance in South Dakota.

• SDPB Radio offers 40+ hours of local programming each week. That includes “No Cover, No Minimum Radio” on Saturday nights, featuring South Dakota performances ranging from classical music to pop to jazz to folk.




STORIES OF IMPACT

SDPB cheers for South Dakota! In partnership with the South Dakota High School Activities Association (SDHSAA) SDPB Television and SDPB Online cover some 30 high school achievement events every school year. These television broadcasts, online webcasts, and social media posts of stats, photos and game highlights are coordinated through a massive behind-the-scenes effort on the part of SDPB staff and partners. The goal is to give students throughout South Dakota recognition for the effort they put into activities and to provide coverage of hometown teams for proud families and friends, particularly those unable to traverse our large state to witness firsthand the activities of grandkids or neighborhood youth. Every SDPB department contributes to the effort. SDPB staff members in signature blue polos populate the events at the stadiums, arenas, domes, theatres, and classrooms across the state. SDPB staffers announce games, operate cameras, take photos, sell DVDs, troubleshoot equipment, and direct broadcasts. One of the toughest challenges is covering the Girls and Boys Basketball Tournaments, which are comprised of 72 games played over the course of two weeks at six different venues in six different cities. Here’s a snapshot of how SDPB covers the basketball tournaments. Each spring, after covering state track tournaments, SDPB starts planning for the next school year. Led by Production Manager Bradley Van Osdel, SDPB staff determines where to place production trucks and vehicles, the engineering requirements of each venue, where to place cameras, and all the dozens of little details that make the broadcast or webcast of each event possible. Each site provides unique challenges and opportunities. For example, this spring SDPB headed to Huron, Brookings and Watertown March 12-14 for the Girls Tournament. A week later, March 19-21, SDPB crews traveled to Sioux Falls, Rapid City, and Aberdeen to cover the Boys Tournaments. SDPB Marketing launches weeks before the tournaments by producing TV promos and articles on when and where hometown fans can view games and track event information on SDPB TV and SDPB.org. TV Production

develops hundreds of pages of graphics for on-screen broadcasts and works with media coordinators at area high schools to find students, typically four per venue, to operate cameras. In a state as large as South Dakota, where cities and towns can be 14-hours apart, travel is a huge part of the preparation process. Administrative assistants book transportation and accommodations for staff from Television, Engineering, Online, Marketing and Radio. Each tournament week, 28-30 rooms are reserved for crew members and announcers – a tricky task during state tournament season. Back at production headquarters, equipment is inventoried into dozens of boxes and bags and packed into three mobile production units. Production and Engineering crews arrive the day before tip-off time to begin the set-up process. Cameras are placed, cables are run, team rosters are entered and final graphics are created upon arrival. Engineering oversees the installation and calibration of equipment alongside the TV crew, and remote signals are tested to insure statewide broadcasts are airing throughout the state via the main operation control center back in Vermillion. Throughout the tournament, crews conduct standard game coverage and also upload graphics, train high school students in camera operation, and constantly coordinate with tournament directors on TV time-outs and half-times. Each site has from five to a dozen TV and Engineering staff on hand at a time. Meanwhile, Online ensures web streaming is seamless and also updates SDPB social media with scores, photos, stats and highlights. Marketing is staffing a both to sell DVDs of the games and to answer the questions of tournaments goers on all aspects of SDPB programming and resources. At the end of the tournaments, after the MVPs are interviewed and trophy ceremonies are filmed, crews work late into the night to strike the equipment, load the production vehicles and head back home. Back in Vermillion, producers set to work to edit game DVDs created by SDPB technicians and mailed to fans and coaches by administrative personnel. Post basketball tournaments, SDPB staff dig in to day-to-day operations until, days later, when it’s time to hit the road again with crews and equipment to cover the high school musicians who gather for three days to rehearse and perform for All-State Band. SDPB will be there.


STORIES OF IMPACT

“Who goes? And who gets left behind?” SDPB partnered with the Department of Veterans Affairs and state veterans groups to provide three screenings of the Academy Award® Nominated documentary, The Last Days in Vietnam, to South Dakota veterans and their families before its official release. The screenings took place at the Multi-Cultural Center in Sioux Falls, the Journey Museum in Rapid City, and at a Vietnam Veterans’ reunion in the state capital of Pierre, where over 260 veterans and their loved ones attended. The screenings included facilitated discussions of stories of service from South Dakota’s war veterans.

SDPB made contact with one of the last men in Vietnam, CWO3 Doug Potratz USMC (Ret.), who was born and raised in Sioux Falls. Our goal was to find out if he might be willing and able to come from his home in California and facilitate some of the discussions. Potratz was unable to attend because he was in the process of honoring the last two Marines killed in Vietnam – he and a few fellow Marines installed and dedicated a plaque on the grounds of the former US Embassy in Ho Chi Minh City, now the site of the US Consulate. The annual reunion of Vietnam Veterans took place at the American Legion Post No. 8 in Pierre over three days. In part because of the significant anniversary of the end of the conflict, and in part because of the opportunity to screen the documentary, a large group of veterans, their spouses and members of Gold Star families attended the event. A staff member from SDPB who lost a relative in the war attended and shared the impact that the war had on his life. The post-screening discussion allowed some veterans to share their experiences in Vietnam, their experiences upon returning home, and how the Vietnam experience shaped their family, political and social views. After the Vietnam War there were large groups of refugees from the war who were relocated to the Upper Midwest, many of them concentrated in Sioux Falls. The screening at the Multi-Cultural Center was targeted to attract those members of the Vietnamese, Hmong, Cambodian and other SE Asian refugee groups. SDPB

was able to screen the program with provided Vietnamese subtitles, a feature that helped attract the attention (if not the attendance) of members of the Vietnamese community. Though only 16 attended, the group was entranced by the film and eager to spend some time after the screening talking about the immigrant experience. Many told their story of a harrowing crossing of the South China Sea to points unknown, how they ended up at refugee camps in the Philippines with little idea as to their fate, and how they were eventually allowed to immigrate to the United States through the good works of church-based organizations. It brought forward a new perspective of the Last Days of Vietnam. Rapid City is located near an Air Force installation and not far from a Veterans hospital so it is a place with a large percentage of retired Veterans. Our screening at the Journey Museum attracted a good crowd of 64 people. Among those in attendance were a veteran who served on the USS Kirk and witnessed the events that were described in the film – helicopters flown by South Vietnamese Army pilots bringing their families to freedom. Another attendee was a Marine serving aboard the USS Hancock, which participated in Operation Eagle Pull (evacuation of Cambodia) and Operation Frequent Wind (evacuation of Saigon). He told of the similar experience he had of having to push helicopters off the ship when they threatened to take up too much space, and how the sailors and Marines cared and comforted the refugees who were able to depart their homeland. At every screening SDPB staff reminded attendees that a documentary is the telling of a story, and it is the unique experiences of individuals who were witness to and participated in events whose stories help provide the context and flavor of the history we all come to know. We provided attendees with resources to help them tell their stories, and encouraged them to write or record their stories so that future generations might be able to have a fuller understanding of our shared history.


SDPB IS SOUTH DAKOTA

On August 19, 2014, SDPB asked people across the state to get out their cameras and give SDPB a sample of their “A Day in South Dakota.” South Dakotans complied – with over 800 photos collected from nearly 200 photographers – amateur and professional alike – who photographed people and places from throughout the state. A panel of judges chose the best for publication in the 2015 “Day in South Dakota” calendar – which became one of SDPB’s most popular member thank you gifts. SDPB Online and Education uploaded the hundreds of photos to share with South Dakotans and the rest of the world.

A Day in South Dakota – Aug, 19, 2014

“In a sense, we’re one big community as a result of our connection through South Dakota Public Broadcasting.” (Tom Daschle)

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