Detroit Public Media

Filing Period

Jul 1, 2011 to Jun 30, 2012

Signed

Sep 24, 2012

Return Version

2011v1.2

Gross Receipts

$19,531,169

Mission

Major Activities

Activity 2

Productions dptv leveraged its production capabilities this past year by utilizing our high definition mobile production truck, allowing us to produce and record programs on location throughout metropolitan detroit and beyond. The mobile production truck also provides streaming video of both live and on demand events. First robotics competition - a one-hour robotics competition for high school students from around the state. This competition has all the excitement of a state sports competition. Students compete in a venue where intelligence, engineering and ingenuity are highlighted when teams build and operate robots in an intense competition. The detroit regional chamber mackinac conference - dptv produced 22 hours of coverage over three days from grand hotel on mackinac island. The programs were carried live on 56.2 providing a unique look into the way the region is governed and the collaborations that are critical for growth and improvement. Included was a daily half hour highlight program carried on public television stations across the state. The program was also available as open source programming for media outlets to use as a live streamed video program on their websites. Great lakes week conference - produced by dptv, this coverage of water issues facing the great lakes was carried by 24 television stations in 22 markets across the u.s. This conference was produced from the campus of wayne state university and from the book cadillac hotel in detroit. Featured speakers included vice president al gore. The sphinx finals competition concert - originally intended to be produced from orchestra hall in detroit, the concert changed venues abruptly when an electrical explosion closed down orchestra hall. Within four hours, dptv moved all their production to hill auditorium on the campus of university of michigan, in ann arbor. The concert went on as planned showcasing extremely talented black and latino string instrument student musicians. Miweek with stephen henderson and nolan finley hosted by christy mcdonald -dptv started production of a new weekly program beginning in april. Miweek takes a look at the important events that take place in southeast michigan with an emphasis on current events, politics and government. The thirty-minute program is produced weekly and airs on friday evenings. Dptv continued to produce local and national programs focusing on five key content areas; children and education, health and wellness, public affairs/leadership, energy & environment, and arts & culture. Samples of programs produced this year, by content area included: children and education: kids club live, ecic early learning vignettes, american graduate, humane education and winning futures. Health and wellness: vital signs, child mental health. Caregivers confronting the care system, a look at caring for loved ones suffering from dementia. The end of illness with dr. Agus, a look at taking control of your own good health by altering your lifestyle. Mivote: the afordable care act. Public affairs leadership: american black journal, am i right, leaders on leadership, business leaders for michigan, and the economic club. Launched miweek as a reformulated public affairs show. Energy and environment: beyond the light switch won a columbia-dupont national award for balanced coverage. Great lakes week live broadcast. Arts and culture: produced the governor's volunteer awards and streamed almost 30 detroit symphony orchestra concerts and produced il volo takes flight from the detroit opera house that aired on over 90% of the public television stations nationally. Produced arab-american stories series. Wrcj 90.9 fm also produced new local programs this year to support southeast michigan cultural and educational institutions. Many programs and interviews are available on demand at wrcjfm.org. Community partners and productions for wrcj 90.9 fm this year include: detroit symphony orchestra (dso) wrcj 90.9 fm produced and broadcast: ten live con

Activity 3

Communications detroit public television and wrcj 90.9 fm continued their success in providing on-air and online media resources to the community. Such resources are made available to the entire community and welcome content from anyone. The goal is to understand issues and to become media leaders in key areas, while staying engaged with the public and creating dialog with audiences. Examples of successful community outreach activities this year included: great lakes week: the dptv broadcast team originated more than 25 hours of live programming from the first-ever combined meetings of the leading great lakes governance organizations and environmental activists. Coverage was made available online and extended to 22 markets across the united states. Mivote.org - producers traveled to mackinac island to televise and webcast the annual mackinac policy conference with civic, business and political leaders, making it available and accessable to the public throughout michigan through both public media, commercial media and community partners. Mivote.org - the affordable care act: dptv conducted a series of community conversations throughout the state and in southeast michigan with citizens to explain and gather reactions to the affordable care act and pending legislation to establish an insurance exchange. The conversations resulted in a half-hour program examining the choices michigan lawmakers faced and possible scenarios for implementation of health care reform. American graduate: dptv convened community conversations throughout southeast michigan to discuss why so many kids drop out of high school and fail to gain diplomas. Dptv also assembled community partners to discuss potential solutions to the dropout problem and how the video resources of the station could be brought to bear to help solve the problem. Dptv produced a teacher town hall broadcast, a series of psa messages, produced a series of teacher-student interviews in partnership with storycorps, produced and aired a show focusing on great teachers that was distributed by the united way of southeast michigan, and a graduation celebration in june, all of which link citizens to community resources to attack the dropout problem. Ready to learn community workshops to promote literacy - to 4,627 children and adults in 163 workshops; distributing new books and with an anti-bullying, basic family finance curricula dptv fall festival - welcomed more than 400 children and families to riley broadcast center for halloween themed activities and much more. Wrcj 90.9 fm "kickstart your summer" june 2012 all-day live broadcast from edsel & eleanor ford house in grosse pointe with 30 non-profit arts organizations. 1000 attendees. Classical brunch concert series. Six concerts produced with the community house in birmingham. 1200 attendees. Dso neighborhood concert series. Wrcj 90.9 fm had a presence at all 24 concerts and met hundreds of listeners. Detroit jazz festival. Wrcj 90.9 fm produced a 2012 "jazz calendar" which debuted at the 3-day labor day weekend event in downtown detroit. Dptv kids club live. Wrcj 90.9 fm provided "hands-on" musical experiences for more than 1500 children.

Filer

EIN

38-1440200