2019 LOCAL CONTENT &
SERVICE REPORT TO THE COMMUNITY
LOCAL VALUE • SDPB is South Dakota’s only statewide, multi-platform media organization owned in-state. • The state’s prime source for tournaments and events featuring high school student athletes and achievers. Each year, SDPB covers nearly 50 South Dakota State High School Activities events, including live broadcasts and profiles across all platforms. • South Dakotans’ most accessible and extensive resource for the South Dakota State Legislature, including live feeds, daily reports and broadcasts direct from the Capitol.
“If you reflect back on how you gain your information, how it affected you, there is a direct transfer there, a good solid product, and consequently you want to support that. We need to support the things that are important.” - Ed McLaughlin, Rapid City 1
• Our state’s primary provider of local, in-depth documentaries and history programs on communities across South Dakota. • Statewide source for all-ages programming on the living culture, history and issues from nine Indian Reservations in South Dakota. • Only provider of over-the-air TV for many of South Dakota’s most remote and rural areas. • The statewide EAS information provider, which alerts South Dakotans in the event of natural or man-made disasters. • South Dakota’s only statewide source for over-the-air, commercial free educational programming for children PreK and up.
2019 KEY SERVICES • SDPB’s Television, Radio, Digital and Education & Outreach platforms are available across South Dakota via 9 TV transmitters & 6 TV translators and 11 radio transmitters & 9 radio translators. • SDPB’s 4 TV channels, 2 radio channels, and digital media provide local news, stories, information and events 24/7 wherever South Dakotans are. • Gavel-to-gavel coverage of every South Dakota State Legislative Session, including in-depth reports on proposed legislation, live discussions of bills with lawmakers and South Dakotans, and on-going updates of legislative action. •
SD.net provides South Dakotans with live and on-demand coverage of hearings and floor debates of the South Dakota State Legislature, Public Utilities Commission Meetings, Boards & Commissions, Supreme Court hearings and many more events. Free downloads of the SD.net app are available to everyone.
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SDPB provides audio and webcast services to state agencies, boards and commissions and the state legislature, as well as Digital Dakota Network (DDN) locations, phone conferencing and remote fly packs for streaming and recording meetings.
• On air and online source of information on local & state candidates for public office and information on ballot issues to inform South Dakota voters. • Online archives of programming are comprehensive and accessible. •
Local, digital, high-quality resources for South Dakota educators featuring state-standardized content, South Dakota-specific science and history curriculum, and content from PBS’ vast, trusted educational resources.
• Direct and engaging educational outreach to kids, parents, and families at schools, events, and educator conferences all over South Dakota. • Cross-platform coverage of nearly 50 South Dakota High School Activities from throughout the state, including live action, student and instructor profiles, and recorded highlights. 2
58 YEARS OF PROVIDING EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION TO SOUTH DAKOTA
“To me, public broadcasting has had a big impact on appreciation of this country and history. I guess if there’s a message for everyone it’s ‘do what you can.’ No one expects million dollar gifts all the time. Its those little gifts that mean a lot to the organization that receives them and a lot to the giver. It enriches the soul to know I will have a little part in the continuation of something like public broadcasting.” - Diana Glover, Retired Rapid City elementary school teacher
LOCAL IMPACT • SDPB produces 1,600+ hours of local, original programming covering politics and public policy, health and education, science and technology, business and economic development, sports, music and the arts on SDPB flagship programs In the Moment with Lori Walsh, South Dakota FOCUS with Stephanie Rissler, Dakota Life, Jazz Nightly with Karl Gehrke and No Cover, No Minimum. • More than 200,000 households regularly tune into SDPB TV & Radio. • SDPB.org has 19,992,607 users with 5,219,224 individual page views.
97 YEARS
OF RADIO PROGRAMMING IN SOUTH DAKOTA
• 102,600+ photos from throughout South Dakota, including high school activities and events, available on SDPB’s Flickr albums, with an average of 10,000 views per day and 53,000,000+ lifetime views. • 2,850+ educators/parents subscribe to SDPB’s Education Update e-newsletter & 4,475+ educators/parents to SDPB/PBS LearningMedia service. • More than 17,000 subscribers for SDPB e-newsletters and SDPB Magazine. Digital magazine is read by 37,865 individuals. • 751,766+ hits on SDPB science videos for classroom use, including 25,000 views for a math education program. • Social media monthly reach averages over 1.5 million, with March 2019 engagement at 3,056,218 and 667,389 views of SDPB digital shorts. • SD.net has 3,457 users, including 1,585 new users with 51,927 individual sessions averaging 30 minutes each. • Friends of SDPB fundraises to open new “boutique” studios in Aberdeen, Brookings, and Spearfish. • SDPB opens new studios and public gathering space in downtown Sioux Falls.
“It’s an awareness of the world around me, even though I’m a pretty small fish in this big pond…. Now how can we pay this forward. How can we make an impact down the road, when our careers are through? And so, we have a plan and SDPB was always important in our house. It was easy, an easy decision.” - Bruce Brugman, Rapid City
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JULY 2018
SDPB Radio continues its 2018 Election Coverage with “Meet the Candidates” interviews, inviting every candidate for public office in South Dakota to a broadcast interview leading up to Election Day. In partnership with the South Dakota High School Rodeo Association, SDPB-TV broadcasts a 2 & ½ hour highlights special of the 2018 South Dakota High School Rodeo Finals on July 5 & 8. Rodeo veterans Terri Kissack & Dale Christensen announce the program, which showcases footage recorded live by SDPB crew throughout June’s five-day event in Belle Fourche. Additionally, SDPB Magazine and SDPB Digital highlight the participants, family members, volunteers and organizers of the South Dakota Special Rodeo, which provides opportunities for special needs kids and adults to ride and rope alongside high school rodeo athletes during the finals. July 5, U.S. and European musicians with The Orlando Chamber Soloists perform a free, live, public broadcast performance on In the Moment at the Black Hills Studios (BHS). That evening, the Rushmore Music Festival, a summer music camp for kids from across South Dakota and the world, holds a reception and concert in the BHS.
“Love SDPB... our family watches the programming on TV and has the radio (via streaming) on the rest of the time! The best source for local/South Dakota news and programming.” -Paul Horsted, Custer “Clear, concise news, interesting features, rare jazz offerings to end the day — everything you could ask for!” The entire crew seems like the very people you would want to invite to your next gathering!” - Sandy Shaughnessy, Keystone 4
SDPB is a proud media partner for Sanford Underground Research Facility’s (SURF) 10th annual science festival, “Neutrino Day X” in Lead, SD. SDPB engineers, content producers, education and marketing staff work out of the former Homestake Gold Mine, site of SURF, the international underground research lab. SDPB Radio’s In the Moment: Innovation broadcasts live from the lab, nearly a mile underground, to interview Christopher Mossey, Fermilab Deputy Director, who is overseeing the 10-year expansion for the Long Baseline Neutrino Facility, which will require workers to remove over 870,000 tons of rock and erect a 70,000-ton neutrino detector. SDPB Education Specialist Steven “Science Steve” Rokusek also produces engaging science demos for almost 1,500 kids and adults at the event. SDPB Marketing joins in the multi-day Brookings Arts Festival to help over 500 early learners build and learn about simple machines and to conduct video interviews with South Dakotans of all ages about their favorite books in conjunction with PBS’ The Great American Read. SDPB partners with the South Dakota Humanities Council (SDHC) to make available books from PBS’ The Great American Read, as well as Humanities Scholars, to public libraries and book clubs in South Dakota. SDPB Digital streams the Governor’s Agricultural Summit, live from Rapid City, July 11 & 12. SDPB-TV premieres “Celebrate, Remember: The Making of the Dakota Hospital Memorial Project,” detailing the many hands involved in the Vermillion-area community art sculpture.
July 20-21, SDPB Marketing and Buddy the SDPB Bird build catapults and pulleys with families at Aberdeen’s Storybook Land Festival, attended by over 5,560 participants. Meanwhile that same weekend, SDPB TV producers are onsite at Sioux Falls JazzFest 2018 at Yankton Trail Park to record main stage performers for future SDPB broadcast. SDPB Radio staff emcee the second stage featuring local artists like “Ultraviolet Fever,” “Fissure Jazz,” and ”Miss Myra & the Moonshiners.” West River July 21, SDPB partners with Native POP: People of the Plains—A Gathering of Arts and Culture for a Native Film Fest at the Black Hills Studio, featuring over 10 locally produced documentaries by or about Indigenous individuals. Jazz Nightly with Karl Gehrke broadcasts a free, live, public performance featuring South Dakota jazz musicians the JAS Quintet at the SDPB Sioux Falls Studios. SDPB-TV’s local music series No Cover, No Minimum features live performances from musicians in or from South Dakota. July features Burlap Wolf King, Deadwood’s Brandon Sprague, and the Sioux River Folk Fest. Where Do We Go from Here? is SDPB’s discussion series focusing on community issues and solutions. Moderated by Chuck Parkinson, the free forum is open to the public in the SDPB Black Hills Studio, webcast on SDPB.org and broadcast on SDPB2. July’s topic discusses news, media and the future of democracy. SDPB Radio offers 32+ hours of local programming each week, including local news reports every weekday during “Morning Edition,” “All Things Considered,” and In the Moment with Lori Walsh. SDPB TV presents 3 live one-hour episodes of On Call with the Prairie Doc®, live, call-in programs hosted by Brookings based Dr. Rick Holm and featuring guest medical experts. July topics feature “Cardiology Issues,” “Perils of Aging,” and “Shoulder Problems.” SDPB Digital provides live streaming of SDPB Radio and SDPB Classical 24; live and archived presentations of SDPB programming and national news events and archives of original programming. In July SDPB’s Social Media reaches 1,254,199, with 92,293 followers, and engagement of 77,906. Digital shorts generate 394,475 video views for videos on subjects like Vanished South Dakota: Towns of Yesterday, Black Hills youth conservation camps, and “Aebleskiver” at Viborg’s Danish Days, which alone generates 28,361 views. Over 17,000 members of Friends of SDPB receive the monthly SDPB Magazine, featuring TV and Radio schedules as well as features on SDPB programs and events, and profiles of South Dakota individuals and organizations. Over 15,059 receive the monthly eSDPB newsletter, 764 selfsubscribe to “SDPB Living,” the SDPB arts & culture e-newsletter; 809 to “SDPB Sports,” and 740 receive the SDPB News & Information e-newsletter, highlighting top SDPB News local stories and features. Additionally, over 2,044 kids receive Buddy the SDPB Bird’s e-newsletter featuring healthy habits, STEAM activities and family projects, while over 560 parents and educators receive “SDPB Learn,” the monthly children and education e-newsletter. 5
AUGUST 2018
SDPB wins a National Murrow Award for Excellence in Social Media for The Shift, a multi-platform reporting project on SD’s shifting populations. SDPB’s In the Moment continues its “Meet the Candidates” Election 2018 coverage on air and online. Throughout August, In the Moment also features a Monday “Summer with the Symphony” segment, featuring uninterrupted recordings of live performances from the Washington Pavilion in Sioux Falls, as well as interviews with musicians and composers for insight into the history and artistry of the music. SDPB partners with First Peoples Fund, including FPF president Lori Pourier (Oglala Lakota), at the Black Hills Studio August 2 to host and livestream a public forum moderated by SDPB reporter Chynna Lockett about Native arts, arts administration, and funding.
We love the Create channel in our house. I grew up watching Sesame Street and Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood, those were our friends and companions. I love hearing something I otherwise wouldn’t have thought I was interested in… I think it’s pretty important we give to organizations doing good work in the community whether it’s through scholarships or endowment or things like public broadcasting to make sure that those exist for our collective kids and grandkids. I think is important… The work that SDPB does is important.” - Elizabeth Freer, Spearfish 6
August 2, SDPB hosts and broadcasts the Black Elk Symposium at the Black Hills Studio in partnership with the SD Hall of Fame. Panelists include Myron Pourier (Oglala Lakota), greatgreat grandson of Nicholas Black Elk, journalist Charles Trimble (Oglala Lakota), author Bradley Saum and artist Dale Lamphere. Moderated by SDPB’s Director of Content Larry Rohrer. SDPB engages with traditional music lovers with book trivia at the Sioux River Folk Festival August 3-4 in Canton. Live performances by local musicians are recorded and shared across SDPB’s social media. SDPB’s Science Steve, Buddy the SDPB Bird and SDPB Marketing staff present kids and family activities, including building simple machines, to 3,500+ participants at the SD Games, Fish & Parks Outdoor University-East, at the Outdoor Campus in Sioux Falls August 4. Friends of SDPB welcomes new board members, Paula Long Fox (Rapid City), Janet F. Johnson (Sioux Falls), and Susan Halter Jones (Watertown). SDPB Television presents 4 one-hour On Call with the Prairie Doc® programs featuring live, professional medical advice for
South Dakotans. Topics this month include eye health, bacterial and viral “bugs,” end-of-life care, and the audience-generated “Ask Anything.” Vermillion Public Library and Brookings Public Library partner with SDPB to engage patrons in PBS’ The Great American Read with favorite book displays and programming. Recent Rapid City-area high school graduates and seniors discuss their role in South Dakota’s future on Where Do We Go from Here?, August 15 at the Black Hills Studio. SDPB Magazine spotlights SDPB Healthcare & Education reporter Jackie Hendry, who travels the state to highlight K-12 students and teachers, and the status of issues like nursing homes, Medicare, and addiction programs. SDPB’s Black Hills Studio at 415 Main Street in downtown Rapid City, originally a 1946 Arts Deco building, wins a Norm E. Nelson Preservation Achievement Award as a redevelopment project that balances preservation with progress. SDPB’s Making a Living series launches with guests U.S. Senator Mike Rounds, SDSU Economics professor Dr. Evert Van der Sluis, farmer and American Soybean Association board director Brandon Wipf, and farmer and VP of the SD Farmers Union Larry Birgen. The live panel discussion on economic development and workplace issues in the state is produced in front of a live, studio audience and shared online. August 17, 18 & 19, SDPB presents family activities and simple machine building for kids at Yankton’s Riverboat Days & Summer Arts Festival, which is attended by over 90,000. SDPB Television presents a one-hour No Cover, No Minimum featuring South Dakota musicians 35th & Taylor. Friends of SDPB presents two concerts for the 3rd annual Fiddles & Friends. At the Performing Arts Center in Rapid City and Strawbale Winery in Renner, South Dakota fiddlers Owen DeJong, Kenny Putnam and Tom Schaefer and friends play live to benefit the Friends of SDPB. 7
SEPTEMBER 2018
SDPB’s booth at Vermillion’s downtown Ribs, Rods & Rock n Roll Festival engages with families about building small machines and SDPB’s educational programming. SDPB Radio ramps up its 2018 Election Coverage with continued “Meet the Candidates” interviews and discussions on ballot issues. SDPB Television’s Dakota Life series launches its fall premiere with This Place, These Words, with local content in support of PBS’ The Great American Read. The program features Myron Pourier of Pine Ridge, great-great grandson of Nicholas Black Elk (Black Elk Speaks) hiking up Black Elk Peak and discussing his grandfather’s legacy. The program also highlights Ole Rolvaag’s Giants in the Earth and visits the Rolvaag Writing Cabin at Augustana University in Sioux Falls and Sioux Falls’ Charles Berdahl, a Rolvaag descendant. South Dakota Poet Laureate Lee Ann Roripaugh shares her work and reflections on her Japanese mother.
“As SD Festival of Books collaborators, SDPB and SDHC annually bring alive the best in literary and cultural reflection. We have witnessed the joy of audiences at onsite author events, listening to national personalities like Carl Kasell, “The Voice of NPR,” exhibits, “Up Close & Pulitzer” broadcasts, live streaming, and the “In the Moment” live radio shows. For decades, SDPB has brought alive South Dakota stories through film and broadcasts via SDHC’s grant programs, One Book South Dakota, and veterans’ programming. SDPB is intrumental in our efforts to reach South Dakotans with humanities programming.” - Sherry DeBoer, Former SD Humanities Council Executive Director 8
SDPB contributes local content featuring South Dakota writers in PBS’ The Great American Read. SDPB’s Lori Walsh and Andrew Bork visit writer Dan O’Brien (Buffalo for the Broken Heart: Restoring Life to a Black Hills Ranch) at his bison ranch near Hermosa, poet/novelist Patrick Hicks (The Commandant of Lubizec) at Augustana University, and writers Norma and Jerry Wilson at their country home on Frog Creek Road, north of Vermillion. September 10, Brookings Public Library offers a free screening of PBS’ The Great American Read, a documentary about America’s favorite books, in partnership with SDPB. Later this month, BPL screens at the Brookings Cinema the film The Lovely Bones, based on Alice Sebold’s novel, which is on the list of America’s 100 favorite books, as compiled in a survey for The Great American Read. South Dakota FOCUS, SDPB Television’s live, one-hour public affairs viewer-interactive program, debuts its 24th season on Sept. 13 with a discussion of specialty crops in South Dakota. Two more programs this month discuss deer hunting license changes and issues of age diversity in the South Dakota workforce, live from the Black Hills Studio. Where Do We Go from Here? at the Black Hills Studio features a discussion about women in public service, with Rapid City Common Council Laura Armstrong; former chair of the SD Democratic Party, former senator and former member of the SD State Board of Education Judy Duhamel; Custer City Councilmember Carrie Moore, and former state legislator Linda Lea Viken. In partnership with the South Dakota Humanities Council, SDPB is a proud sponsor of the SD Festival of Books in Brookings and Sioux Falls, September 20-23. In the Moment broadcasts live with author interviews from the FoB on the SDSU campus, SDPB sponsors free film screenings and discussions with local filmmaker Jay Fishback of adaptations of films based on books
from PBS’ The Great American Read, including The Grapes of Wrath and other classics. SDPB’s Lori Walsh and Sebold discuss writing and the power of truth in a special event held at SDSU’s Larson Memorial Concert Hall. SDPB Magazine profiles Karl Schenk of Mission Hill, a pancreatic cancer survivor whose story is featured in Ken Burns Presents: The Mayo Clinic—Faith, Hope, Science, this month on SDPB-TV. SDPB Television debuts the 17th season of popular weekly medicaladvice program On Call with the Prairie Doc® and records programs at the Black Hills Studio in Rapid City. Program topics this month include “Men’s Health,” “Headaches & Cutting Edge Therapies,” and “Suicide: A Bad Choice.” SDPB Television’s No Cover, No Minimum premieres “Best of JazzFest 2018,” including live performances from Jami Lynn, Zero Ted Band and the JazzFest Jazz Camp 2018 students. Savor Dakota digital shorts celebrating South Dakota cuisine, including chislic, rhubarb, aebleskiver and mulberries, trend on SDPB social media. Making a Living, SDPB’s monthly business program, discusses cloud storage and IT security issues. September 22, the South Dakota Symphony Orchestra debuts works created at a music composition academy for youth. The concert is held at the Black Hills Studio and streamed on SDPB.org. Science Steve, Buddy the SDPB Bird, and SDPB Marketing engage with over 3,375 attendants at the SiouxperCon Sci Fi & Comic Book Convention in Sioux Falls Sept. 28-30.
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OCTOBER 2018
OVER 98%
OF SOUTH DAKOTANS RECEIVE SDPB’S TV, RADIO, AND DIGITAL CONTENT FREE OF CHARGE 24/7.
Oct. 12, PBS President & CEO Paula Kerger returns to South Dakota to officially open SDPB’s Sioux Falls Studios. The studios were made possible by private donations, including from the Leo P. Flynn Estate, Arlene & Dan Kirby, Lisa & Miles Beacom, and many others. Located across from Falls Park in downtown Sioux Falls, the studios extend SDPB’s capacity for producing content, interviews, programs, and community engagement in eastern South Dakota. Continuing SDPB’s Election 2018 Coverage, SDPB hosts a live audience and broadcasts forums with candidates. Moderated by SDPB’s Stephanie Rissler, the forums include candidates for SD Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg & Randy Seiler on Oct. 11; Dusty Johnson, Tim Bjorkman, George Hendrickson and Ron Wieczorek for U.S. House of Representatives on Oct. 18, and SD gubernatorial candidates Kristi Noem & Billie Sutton on Oct. 25. SDPB Television’s Dakota Life: For the Love of the Game showcases South Dakota School of the Blind and Visually Impaired student Michael Gast, the first-ever blind athlete to run in state-sanctioned track meets; Selby’s May Acres Golf Course, home to rare sand greens, and Volga farmer Gary Duffy and his brother Terry, brothers who have served as high school referees since the late 1970s.
“In the past two years, SDPB has increased its local programming and coverage of South Dakota stories and events. The new studios have created opportunities to collaborate with artists, educators, policy makers, and others and grown the audience for locally produced events,” - Brian Hagg, Rapid City “I love the coverage of current events in the state, and around the world. Without SDPB and other public radio stations in the area, I would not be as informed or amused during my time driving or sitting at home.” - Matthew Schlimgen, Vermillion 10
South Dakota Authors & Their Hometowns, a special SDPB production in conjunction with PBS’ The Great American Read premieres Oct. 4 on SDPB-TV. Viewers visit Lily Mendoza, owner of Rapid City’s Bird Cage Book Store, and writers Patrick Hicks, Norma & Jerry Wilson, Jim Reese and Dan O’Brien where they live and work to understand how South Dakota impacts their writing and business. Oct. 4, On Call with the Prairie Doc® is live from the Sioux Falls Studios. SDPB’s Lori Walsh conducts an intimate interview with Dr. Richard Holm, who is undergoing cancer treatment, about his book Life’s Final Season: A Guide for Aging and Dying. Two additional hour-long On Call with the Prairie Doc® programs air on SDPB-TV this month, including topics on “What Happens in the ICU and What Is a Hospitalist?” and “Caregivers at Home for the Disabled.” Where Do We Go from Here? features a public conversation on SDPB.org with local brewers about the growing microbrewery industry in the Black Hills on Oct. 17. Science Steve Rokusek demonstrates fun, lively methods for science education to K-12 teachers and others Oct. 17 at “Nerd Night,” hosted by Vermillion’s Varsity Pub. SDPB’s Making a Living spotlights “Resources for Sioux Falls’ Start Ups and Entrepreneurs” in studio and online Oct. 23. In conjunction with PBS’ premiere of the 4-part documentary series Native America, SDPB Magazine highlights Takuwe (Lakota: “why”) an art exhibition on the Wounded Knee Massacre on display at Akta Lakota Museum in Chamberlain and traveling to the South Dakota Art Museum in Brookings. The article features
Dr. Craig Howe (Oglala Sioux), who founded the Center for American Indian Research & Native Studies (CAIRNS) that produced the exhibit, which includes paintings, sculpture, videos and more from 46 artists and community pieces contributed from throughout South Dakota. SDPB’s comprehensive TV, Digital and Social Media coverage of South Dakota High School Activities Association (SDHSAA) championships and tournaments ramps up in October. In close partnership with the SDHSAA, and with funding from over a dozen engaged local underwriters, SDPB Television, Engineering, Digital and Marketing provide family and supporters everywhere professional, cost-free coverage of our state’s high school student achievers at: • Boys Golf Championships, Oct. 1-2, Boys A in Dell Rapids and AA in Brookings; • Girls Tennis Championships, Oct. 4-6 in Rapid City; • Boys & Girls Soccer Championships, Oct. 13 in Rapid City; • Cheer & Dance Championships, Oct. 19-20, in Brandon Valley; • Boys & Girls Cross Country, Oct 20, in Sioux Falls, and, • All-State Chorus & Orchestra, Oct. 27, in Rapid City. Oct. 17, SD FOCUS features a discussion of Native American Educational Opportunities at the Black Hills Studio in Rapid City. Oct. 17, Friends of SDPB hosts Meet the Artist: Dick Termes at the Everist Gallery in the Washington Pavillion in Sioux Falls. Oct. 22-25, Jazz Nightly with Karl Gehrke broadcasts from the Black Hills Studio, including a live performance featuring local musicians WJazz. SDPB Television broadcasts four one-hour No Cover, No Minimum programs featuring local musicians including Ted & Alice Miller. SDPB Digital provides live streaming of SDPB Radio and SDPB Classical 24, live and archived presentations of SDPB original programming.
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NOVEMBER 2018
SDPB is awarded two regional Emmys, including for The Art of War, in the “Military Category,” about soldier-artists James Pollock of Pierre and Stephen Randall of Sioux Falls, who served in the Vietnam Combat Art Program during the Vietnam War. Dynasty on the Diamond, a 30-minute doc about Rapid City’s American Legion Post 22 Hardhats, wins an Emmy in the “Sports—One Time Special Category.” SDPB’s new episode of Dakota Life: All Is Fair features profiles of powwow emcee Jerry Dearly, the Turner County Fair pie contest, Dakota Kids pedal pulls, and four generations of a Beresford 4H family. On SDPB Television, SDPB Digital and SDPB Social Media, SDPB delivers cross-platform coverage of state high school championships and events:
• State Football Championships from Vermillion’s
DakotaDome, Nov. 8-10, including live broadcast of seven championship games. SDPB provides professional commentary, school and athlete profiles, graphics and behind-the-scenes stories supporting the coverage. SDPB also partners with SD high school media classes to mentor student camera operators and producers.
• SDPB Digital, Television and Social Media produce and deploy multiple “Tales of the Gridiron,” digital shorts sharing intimate stories from the schools, coaches, players and officials involved in high school football from throughout the state, including “The Girls of Fall,” about Kaytlyn Hawley and Christine Nefzger, two young women who play football for the Estelline Redhawks.
• SDPB highlights high school coverage with photos, stats “I’m impressed with how SDPB broadcasts high school sports and music. The work you do during the legislative session in Pierre and the interviewing you give the candidates. I want my money to be put to good use when I’m not here to nag them about it. To educate people, to illuminate people with culture and the arts, to shed light on things. I think SDPB can be an enlightening influence on the state, with programs that are truthful, comprehensive, indepth, interesting, useful and professional.” - Victoria Kingslien, Florence 12
and live-tweets shared directly from the games on to SDPB SPORTS Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram feeds. Highresolution action shots are shared on social media and uploaded with full, free access to SDPB’s online Flickr gallery. Parents, family, fans and the media access all these platforms for photos, updates, scores and outcomes.
• Nov. 15-16, SDPB.org live streams all State Volleyball
Championships matches from Sioux Falls. Nov. 17, Class AA, B and A championships are each broadcast live on SDPB Television. Videos, photos, game highlights and scores are shared across SDPB Social Media.
• Nov. 30, SDPB is in Watertown for the State Oral
Interpretation Competition. Results, action shots and photos are uploaded to SDPB.org and shared across Social Media.
SDPB launches Before It Gets Better, a multiplatform reporting project on mental health in South Dakota. Interviews with treatment providers and South Dakotans with stories of hardship and hope in the face of depression and mental illness are featured on In the Moment, South Dakota FOCUS, Where Do We Go from Here? and across all SDPB platforms.
SDPB Television presents “An Evening with Alice Sebold,” Nov. 11. The international bestselling author’s conversation with SDPB’s Lori Walsh was recorded live at South Dakota State University as part of the SD Festival of Books and PBS’ The Great American Read. Sebold, a frequent speaker on violence against women, and Walsh discussed writing, culture and sexual abuse. Rock Garden Tour, the “rock and roll gardening show,” streams live from the SDPB Sioux Falls Studios in a program free and open to the public. SDPB Television airs three one-hour On Call with the Prairie Doc® programs, covering topics like “Diabetes,” “Diabetes & The American Indian,” and “Vaccines: The History & Myths.” SDPB joins in and shines a light on SD’s inaugural Giving Tuesday. In the Moment features conversations about the work of several SD non-profit organizations. Meanwhile, Friends of SDPB reaches out to members to encourage friends and neighbors to support public broadcasting in South Dakota. SDPB Radio offers 32+ hours of local programming each week, including SDPB Radio’s local Sci Fi programs that air each Friday at noon. SDPB Tech Radio is a live, call-in program about the latest developments in issues like tech and cyber security, particularly as they affect South Dakotans. SDPB Innovation showcases science and research advances in areas like bio-engineering and manufacturing in South Dakota’s public and private sectors. New downloads of the SDPB app grow to 350+ this month, as fans of South Dakota high school achievers and athletes use the service to tune in to SDPB’s live coverage of events where they are.
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DECEMBER 2018
SDPB BROADCASTS & STREAMS OVER
200 HOURS OF SOUTH DAKOTA HIGH SCHOOL ACTIVITIES.
SDPB Television, Radio and Digital kick off SDPB’s in-depth, comprehensive and cross platform coverage of the South Dakota State Legislature from Pierre with a live broadcast of Governor Dennis Daugaard’s final budget address on Dec. 4. The broadcast includes responses from legislative leaders. SDPB Television’s South Dakota Focus presents three live programs, including a preview of the 2019 legislative session with SD legislators, land conservation, and a look at current efforts to attract and retain teachers on South Dakota’s tribal lands. SDPB Television’s new episode of Dakota Life revisits South Dakota history, with a spotlight on the South Dakota Oral History Center at the University of South Dakota in Vermillion. The segment features oral histories from South Dakotans like first female US Senator Gladys Pyle, Pearl Harbor survivor John F. Smith, and Richard “Dick” Wilson — Oglala Sioux Tribal Chairman during the 1973 American Indian Movement occupation of Wounded Knee. The program also features the history of the Civilian Conservation Corps in SD, as well as a historic re-enactment featuring a replica of the Lewis & Clark expedition’s 1806 pirogue on the Missouri River. SDPB Engineering is the streaming media provider for sporting events at the 42nd Annual Lakota Nations Invitational (LNI) Education Conference in Rapid City, Dec. 17-21. Additionally, SDPB’s Education Specialist Steve Rokusek leads sessions on interactive science activities, while the SDPB Booth at LNI highlights STEAM resources for South Dakota educators and families.
“South Dakota Public Broadcasting is truly a statewide network; it reaches all corners of South Dakota with news, information, arts, entertainment, and sports. No other broadcast entity has the reach and impact that public broadcasting offers.” - Janelle Toman, Pierre “I highly recommend SDPB. I enjoy the special and regular broadcasts, but my favorite has always been the children’s broadcasts. Also much appreciation for broadcasts during SDHSAA times of year!” - Joan Berry Sacrison, Clear Lake 14
SDPB Television presents 4 one-hour On Call with the Prairie Doc® programs, including programs on dermatology, changes in medical treatment, antibiotic use and resistance, and abdominal pain. SDPB Television also airs 4 one-hour No Cover, No Minimum programs featuring musical performance in South Dakota, including Harper & Midwest Kind and the 2018 SD Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Awards. Where Do We Go from Here? and Making a Living, public discussion programs in the Black Hills Studio and Sioux Falls Studios, respectively, are open to the public and stream live on SDPB.org SDPB Television presents the “Sounds of the Season” with a broadcast of Christmas Vespers from Mount Marty College in Yankton. SDPB Radio presents live, public musical performances on Jazz Nightly with Karl Gehrke, featuring the Johnson/ McKinney Quintet in Sioux Falls Dec. 4 and Green Dolphin Quartet Dec. 11. Holiday Jam with the Hegg Brothers is live on In the Moment Dec. 10.
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JANUARY 2019
SDPB broadcasts and streams live from Pierre Jan. 5 for the inauguration events for Governor Kristi Noem. SDPB Television premieres Images of the Past: A Century of South Dakota Parks. This original 30-minute documentary tracks the development of South Dakota’s 13-state park system. Newly acquired drone technology enhances the viewing experiences of South Dakota’s striking landscapes for viewers. SDPB Television, Radio and Engineering broadcast, report, stream and archive the moments and minutes of South Dakota’s 2019 legislative session from Pierre. SDPB partners with the Legislative Research Council to provide the state’s most comprehensive, crossplatform coverage and is the only media organization in the state that provides full-time staffing during the session. In addition, SDPB delivers The South Dakota Channel, or SD.net, to provide direct access to live webcasts, news, and information from the SD State Legislature, the 100+ South Dakota Boards and Commissions, the Legislative Research Council, as well as South Dakota High School Activities Association events. With SD.net , South Dakotans can readily access minutes, public documents, information on members, and agendas for scheduled meetings. SD.net is also available as a free mobile app.
“SDPB does a great job of covering the legislative session with outstanding television and radio coverage. On a more regular basis, Lori Walsh hosts interesting guests every weekday on In the Moment.” - Dennis Daugaard, Former Governor of South Dakota “I live in the boonies of South Dakota and I get all 3 channels of PBS on the antenna. I get informative, unbiased national news, I get Create TV that covers just about every hobby you could think of, and a cartoon channel. Quality broadcasting at its best.” - Ramon Gabriel LaRoque Jr., Wanblee 16
SDPB launches comprehensive coverage of the legislative session with live broadcasts across all platforms of Gov. Kristi Noem’s “State of the State Address” Jan 8, followed by the “State of the Judiciary Address” with Chief Justice David E. Gilbertson Jan. 9, and the “State of the Tribes Address” from Rosebud Sioux Tribal President Rodney Bordeaux Jan. 10. In addition, SDPB Radio’s In the Moment is live from Pierre Jan. 9 & 10, as is South Dakota Focus on Jan. 10, with a session preview featuring legislators live from the Capitol Rotunda. SDPB’s political reporter is stationed in Pierre to provide daily updates and reports through the 94th legislative session. SDPB’s reporting and production teams are on-site every legislative day to cover hearings, floor sessions, bills and committees. Coverage is shared and up-to-the-moment, in-depth interviews and discussions of the issues take place on SDPB’s In the Moment and South Dakota Focus. Additionally, all legislative coverage, including business from committees, boards, and commissions, is accessible via SDPB.org and SD.net., and widely referenced by citizens throughout the state as well as smaller SD media organizations. Each Friday, SDPB Television airs the one-hour program Statehouse, a wrap-up of the weeks’ legislative events on SDPB1, SDPB’s main channel. Statehouse House and Statehouse Senate air weekdays with live coverage from each day’s House session and recorded coverage from Senate daily on SDPB2/World. Additionally, Republican, Democratic and gubernatorial press briefings are aired live the last day of each legislative week on SDPB2. SDPB Digital provides live streaming and archived video and/or audio of the State of the State, Judiciary and Tribes addresses, governor’s speeches and floor sessions, and public committee and board meetings via SD.net. Citizens can opt-in to receive email updates for issues they want to follow.
Friends of SDPB hosts free, public screenings of Masterpiece: Victoria for fans, many of whom dress in period costume, in Rapid City, Sioux Falls and at Aberdeen’s Capitol Cinema. On January 4, SDPB televised the South Dakota Symphony Orchestra’s Young People’s Concert which was recorded at an earlier date in Sioux Falls, SD. SDPB Television’s Dakota Life premieres its January program with a close-look at art, artists, and history in South Dakota, including the cliff-face canvases of indigenous rock art in the southern Black Hills, Viborg metal sculptor Lynn Peterson, Sioux Falls photographer Abby Bischoff’s images of “Abandoned South Dakota,” and the massive mural on the Agtegra grain silo in Faulkton. Jan. 22-25, In the Moment is live from the Black Hills Studio, with a focus on West River news and newsmakers. This marks the 2nd year of the live, twohour weekday program, which features hundreds of local and national guests engaged in civil dialogue about news, arts, and issues. Poetry from Studio 47, a weekly feature on In the Moment recorded at Studio 47 at Augustana University with writing teacher and author Patrick Hicks debuts. SDPB Radio’s Big Band Spotlight celebrates host Karl Gehrke bringing swinging sounds of the era to big band fans every week for 25 years. SDPB Television’s South Dakota Focus provides 4, one-hour live discussion programs on topics including a legislative preview life from Pierre, homelessness in SD, teen suicide, and the state’s foster care shortage. SDPB Television presents 5 live, one-hour On Call with the Prairie Doc® programs, including “Dealing with Chronic Pain,” “Heart Rhythm Issues & Sudden Death,” “Myths in Medicine,” “Dr. Google and Good/ Bad Alternatives,” and “Ask Anything.” Four No Cover, No Minimum programs air this month, including
the Heather Gillis Band recorded live at Sioux Falls JazzFest. Jan. 23, Where Do We Go from Here? hosts the first of a three-part discussion series on civic engagement, public service, and the political climate in South Dakota. Jan. 29, Making a Living livestreams a discussion about job and entrepreneurial opportunities for SD’s military veterans. Over 17,000 members of Friends of SDPB receive the monthly SDPB Magazine, featuring TV and Radio schedules as well as a guide to finding SDPB’s digital content. An electronic edition is debuted, which attracts national and international readers. In January, views of videos featuring locally produced content on SDPB’s Social Media reaches 529,368 and total reach numbers 1,816,748. SDPB travels to Aberdeen for three days to provide coverage of South Dakota High School Activities Association’s One-Act Play Competition. Photos, results and interviews are posted across SDPB’s digital and social media platforms. To help insure SDPB’s locally produced content from Television, Radio and Digital reaches more South Dakotans, over 17,000 members of Friends of SDPB receive the monthly SDPB Magazine, featuring TV and Radio schedules as well as features on SDPB programs and events, and profiles of South Dakota individuals and organizations. Over 14,704 receive the monthly eSDPB newsletter, 781 self-subscribe to “SDPB Living,” the SDPB arts & culture e-newsletter; 823 to “SDPB Sports,” and 752 receive the SDPB News & Information e-newsletter, highlighting top SDPB News local stories and features. Additionally, over 2,059 kids receive Buddy the SDPB Bird’s e-newsletter featuring healthy habits, STEAM activities and family projects, while over 560 parents and educators receive “SDPB Learn,” the monthly children and education e-newsletter.
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FEBRUARY 2019
SDPB’s comprehensive state legislative coverage continues on Television, Radio and Digital. SDPB celebrates the opening of the SDPB Basinger Studio on the campus of South Dakota State University in Brookings. The satellite studio enables professional, high-quality sound for guests and interviews remotely from northeast South Dakota. SDPB hosts screenings of the new Fred Rogers’ documentary Won’t You Be My Neighbor? in Rapid City and Sioux Falls. In conjunction, Friends of SDPB sponsors a Sweater Drive for neighbors in need. SDPB Digital and Television stream the State Gymnastics Finals from Brookings. Feb. 8-9. State Wrestling Tournaments are livestreamed from Rapid City, with wrestling championships broadcast on SDPB-TV Feb. 23. SDPB Television broadcasts Floating Horses: The Life of Casey Tibbs, a locally produced documentary about the rags-to-riches story of the South Dakota rodeo legend. In conjunction with the national PBS premiere of Warrior Women, and in partnership with Vision Maker Media, SDPB Magazine features interviews with Madonna Thunder Hawk and her daughter Marcella Gilbert, about the role of women in the American Indian Movement.
“I appreciate the great variety of programs that teach us something about life: programs that make us want to know more, that answer questions about science and nature, that give us accurate and thorough news of the world, that entertain us with intelligence and creativity. And we are blessed on SDPB with award-winning children’s programs that are a true gift. Anyone curious about this world will find their time wellspent with SDPB-TV and Radio.” - Rosemary Draeger, Sioux Falls “Always enjoy Native American content, historical to present day.” - ReNae BearKing, Fort Totter, ND 18
Now in its 24th season, South Dakota Focus broadcasts two live, interactive one-hour panel discussions with area thought leaders, including leadership from South Dakota AARP and the Attorney General’s office to discuss fraud protection and conservation and agribusiness specialists on land assessment and clarifications, so vital to SD’s economy. Dakota Life premieres a new episode on science and nature in South Dakota, including efforts in the Badlands to bring back black-footed ferrets, the use of drones in precision ag in Mitchell, and T.F. Riggs High School’s celebration of Rube Goldberg machines in Pierre. Savor Dakota: Our Edible Landscape also premieres, with a visit to a community garden featuring wild edibles and indigenous plants in Porcupine and a rhubarb celebration at the W.H. Over Museum in Vermillion. In partnership with Native Sun News, published by Tim Giago (Oglala Lakota), SDPB Television premieres Oyate Today, a 30-minute interview program on the living culture and history of Indigenous people in the Northern Plains and hosted by Richie Richards. SDPB Television’s No Cover, No Minimum broadcasts three onehour programs featuring South Dakota musicians, including Burlap Wolf King and the Hill City Open Stage 2018. NCNM also records a new program in front of a SRO live audience in Vermillion, featuring local band Beard. SDPB’s Education Specialist Steve Rokusek presents professional development workshops and an interactive booth for educators at the Math and Science Conference in Huron, Feb. 7-9. Rokusek and SDPB Digital partnered with the SD Arts Council for web hosting and publicization of the Poetry Out Loud Contest, a memorization and recitation contest for SD high school
students. Throughout the year, SDPB Education/Digital creates multiple new educational resources for South Dakota teachers, including five social science videos for PreK-4th grade on topics like cardinal directions and Native American boarding school history. In partnership with the WoLakota Project and the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at the University of South Dakota, videos and science lesson plans are crafted and shared, focusing on archaeology, the senses, art, and more. Dissection videos for school districts unable to access or afford are produced and shared, including step-by-step instructions on dogfish shark and perch for middleand high school life science classes. Education/Digital also records, edits and uploads South Dakota State High School Activities Association Class A and Class AA Public Forum Debates to be used by SD debate teachers for next year’s debate season. SDPB Television broadcasts four live, one-hour viewer-interactive On Call with the Prairie Doc® programs, featuring topics on “Violence & Abuse,” “Heart Disease,” “Eye Health,” and “Medicine at War.” Students from Black Hills State University join Where Do We Go from Here? on Feb. 27 to discuss how young voters use social media to be civically engaged in elections and socio-political issues. SDPB Radio offers 32+ hours of local programming each week. This includes On Record with Matt Weesner, a one-hour music program that airs every Saturday to feature adult alternative music, including South Dakota artists. In February, SDPB hits a milestone of 100,000 social media followers. SDPB’s Social Media posts and digital shorts reach 2,103,831, including 558,555 video views of digital shorts featuring South Dakota people, places and events.
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MARCH 2019
All SDPB hands are on deck for coverage of South Dakota High School High Activities Association events throughout the month, including:
• On location at Sioux Falls O’Gorman High School for the
State Debate & Speech Tournament March 1-2. SDPB Digital uploads updates, photos and results from the two-day event online and across SDPB Social Media platforms.
• SDPB covers every game in the Girls & Boys State Basketball
Tournaments so South Dakota fans can watch their studentathletes wherever they may be and no matter what place they take: championships, quarterfinals and consolation games. March 7-9, SDPB’s production team is in Huron for Class B Girls games. Three days and hundreds of miles later, March 14-16, SDPB travels and sets up live production in three separate towns, covering Boys & Girls AA in Rapid City, Boys & Girls Class A in Sioux Falls and Boys B in Aberdeen.
• SDPB Social Media and Digital extend coverage of the
basketball tournaments with live webcasts and up-to-theminute updates of photos, stats and results. SDPB producers supervise high school media class students from local SD school districts in camera operation and broadcast production skills.
• SDPB Digital shorts air during basketball coverage, including a
story on “The Spirit of Six,” an annual award given during the tournaments to cheerleading teams who exemplify the spirit of the six Rapid City High School cheerleaders who perished in a plane crash returning from the state tournaments in 1968.
• SDPB Magazine profiles St. Thomas More High School Girls
Basketball head coach Alex Kandolin, who brought the Lady Cavaliers as the third program in South Dakota high school history to win five consecutive state Class A titles.
• SDPB Television premieres the two-hour highlights program “Our fundamental view is that education is just critical to our democratic system. Education extends way beyond school, and good informative radio and TV programs allow and create that for lifelong learning. Both of us really think that is critical. We hope to provide for all the people that public broadcasting will be there for, including all the people that come after us.” - Kathy Johnson & Doyle Estes, Rapid City 20
from the State Gymnastics Championships, filmed in February.
• SDPB Digital and Social Media share images, profiles and
results from the South Dakota High School State Visual Arts Competition & Exhibition March 14-16 in Rapid City.
• March 23, the South Dakota High School All-State Band is streamed live online from Aberdeen.
• March 27, SDPB Digital is at the South Dakota High School
Journalism State Contest, uploading photos and results of award-winning news writing and other communications contests.
• SDPB Producers and Engineers edit video and audio shot
at the state championships into professionally produced DVDs of SDSHAA championship, like football, basketball and gymnastics. The DVDs are used in training by coaches
and treasured by athletes’ fans and families while helping to offset production costs. South Dakota Focus airs two live programs, including a conversation with newly elected SD Attorney General Jason Ravsnborg and newly appointed SD Secretary of Agriculture Kim Vannemen. Images of the Past is SDPB’s multiplatform initiative, in partnership with SD museums and historical societies, that offers a fresh look at images of the well-known and the nearly unknown places, events and people of South Dakota’s past. In March, images and historic recounts are shared on “Deadwood’s First Female Doctor,” “Photographer Bill Groethe & Last Survivors of the Little Big Horn,” “Early Girl Scouts of the Black Hills,” “Music & Immigrants of Dakotah,” and “Spokane—Black Hills Ghost Town,” among others. Education Specialist Science Steve Rokusek is awarded the “2019 Friend of Science Award” by the South Dakota Science Teachers Association. SDPB Marketing and Science Steve attend the Youth & Family Services Kids Fair in Rapid City March 22-24. Over 11,380 kids, educators and caregivers attend the Fair, where Science Steve provides lively science demonstrations and visitors to SDPB’s booth learn about South Dakota animals and animal tracks. In March, SDPB’s Social Media has a total reach of 3,056,218; SDPB digital shorts shared across social media rate at 667,389 views; 188,337 are engaged and followers increase to 102,953.
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APRIL 2019
SDPB RADIO PRODUCES OVER
30 HOURS OF PROGRAMMING EACH WEEK.
“SDPB wakes me up in the morning and ends my day with accurate and balanced local, state and national information. Supporting the development of creative and relevant local programs is an investment in our communities and our state. Telling our stories is at the heart of making our place better for all of us. SDPB is an important part of our family and our community.” - Karen Mortimer, Friends of SDPB Board Member “We are going through a desert these days of factual news. We have to do more than regret that, we have to demonstrate how news can be factual and compelling so that people’s minds can be open to see differnt points of view. But it also hss to be entertaining with interesting, diverse topics. It’s curated — everything is intentional and thoughtful.” - Victoria Kingslien, Florence 22
In the first week of April, a raw cut of Vanished South Dakota: Towns of Yesterday, SDPB’s original documentary on the birth, boom and demise of once-thriving communities, screens to over 120 in Deadwood, 130 in Rapid City, 278 audience members in Hot Springs, and 200+ in Spearfish. Local historians and culture keepers share memories and expertise on the communities both for audiences at the screenings and to help inform the content of the documentary. SDPB News Reporter Victoria Wicks is profiled in SDPB Magazine. Wicks’ reports on environmental issues, civil rights, and SD court cases have won several regional Edward R. Murrow Awards. In conjunction with Sexual Assault Awareness Month, In the Moment features guests from sexual assault prevention groups on SD college campuses like ICare and PAVE; SD FOCUS includes a conversation with sexual assault survivor Sara Kindvall, as well as guests from the Sioux Falls-based SD Network Against Family & Sexual Assault and Rapid City’s Working Against Violence, Inc. SDPB Magazine includes a guest editorial from Vi Waln (Sicangu Lakota) and Lakota Times newspaper editor on the subject of Missing Murdered Indigenous Women/Missing Murdered Indigenous Relatives (MMIW/MMIR) and an interview with Black Hills-based group MMIW He Sapa. Morning Macro, a new weekly segment on In the Moment debuts. Dakota State University economics professor Joe Santos provides accessible mini-lessons in economics to help break down the rhetoric and realities of fiscal policies. SDPB Radio offers 32+ hours of local programming each week and SDPB News produces South Dakota news stories, which are shared and updated during local newscasts throughout the day, as well as on SDPB.org and SDPB News’ social media platforms. The latest episode of Dakota Life focuses on South Dakota’s spring planting and food production season, including profiles of the plant & vegetable seed library at Yankton’s Public Library, the Oglala Lakota Cultural & Economic Revitalization Initiative on Pine Ridge, which focuses on food production projects rooted in Lakota culture, permaculture, and holistic land management; Brandon-based Fruit of the Coop, a free-range egg supplier to Sioux Falls restaurants and families, and White Lake and Sioux Falls farmers Reid Suelflow and Jeff Zimprich incorporate ag practices to improve health for soil, pollinators and wildlife. South Dakota Focus provides three live, viewer-interactive, onehour discussions, including a wrap-up discussion of the 2019 SD legislative season, updates on the controversial changes to deer-hunting licenses, and prevention and resources for sexual assault and domestic violence. In April, in conjunction with the 50th anniversary of the first lunar landing, SDPB begins production on Space Age South Dakota, a 30-minute documentary on the state’s surprising but significant
contributions to the space race, including the Stratobowl balloon flights, the work of the SD Space Grant Consortium, and NASA engineers born and bred in South Dakota. SDPB celebrates the opening of two new satellite studios: on the Northern State University campus in Aberdeen, courtesy of a gift from the Tom & Danielle Aman Foundation, and on the Black Hills State University campus in Spearfish, supported by former Friends of SDPB board member Sue White. April 7-9, SDPB is in Sioux Falls for the South Dakota High School Activities Association State Student Council Convention. Photos, profiles and results of organizing activities and student governing awards are shared online and across SDPB Social Media. Where Do We Go from Here? tackles the issue of Black Hills water resources, with civil and environmental engineering professors from the School of Mines & Technology as well as Oglala Lakota College professor emeritus Lilias Harding of Clean Water Alliance. SDPB Magazine, in conjunction with the national premiere of Masterpiece: Les Misérables, discusses the role of high school and community theatre in South Dakota with Rapid City Central High School Theatre Director Justin Speck. Dakota Political Junkies, a recurring segment on In the Moment, features an unpacking of major SD news stories from contributors like Madison Daily Leader publisher Jon Hunter, Sioux Falls Argus Leader reporter Jonathon Ellis, and Northern State University political science professor Jon Schaff. SDPB Television provides four episodes of On Call with the Prairie Doc®, including topics on radiology treatment, “Chekov, Humanities, and the Physician,” and “Lung Disease & Sleep Disorders.” April 27, SDPB is in Brandon to record and livestream the dedicated and disciplined high school musicians selected for the South Dakota High School Activities Association All-State Jazz Band Concert. Recent episodes of Where Do We Go from Here?, SDPB’s public community discussion at the Black Hills Studio, and Making a Living, a monthly discussion of business and economic development issues at the Sioux Falls Studios, begin airing on SDPB2 to increase access to the information and resources provided by the programming.
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MAY 2019
SDPB’s latest episode of Dakota Life: Go Outside takes viewers outdoors throughout South Dakota, including to Goat Island on the Upper Missouri River, spring turkey hunting with the Kral family near Yankton, outdoor dining with Beresford’s mobile barbeque and Sioux Falls food trucks, and slacklining in the Black Hills. Moment in Sound, a live music segment on SDPB’s In the Moment, features free, live, public performances from local musicians in the Sioux Falls Studios throughout the month, including Transept, a Sioux Falls ensemble of professional consort singers and musicians, Americana-country group Burlap Wolf King, and bluegrass duo Humbletown. Images of the Past: The Collectors premieres May 2 on SDPBTV. The original 30-minute documentary shares a portion of the bounty of irreplaceable historic images, postcards, and ephemera from personal collectors in Sioux Falls, Aberdeen and Custer. SDPB Television and Digital are in Sioux Falls and Brandon May 16-18 to cover SD High School Boys Tennis Championships and back in Sioux Falls May 24-25 to livestream SD High School Track & Field Championships.
“I appreciate the quality of your programming. This is the best TV viewing on the air.” - Dana Richart, Rapid City “Public Broadcasting just does such a wealth of good. There’s no other place on the radio that you can get that kind of news in-depth. I also like jazz music. Public radio news provides the whole subject, from liberal to conservative. You get a complete commentary, not just partial. We went to a live show of In the Moment, with reporters like Seth Tupper. The new studio makes it easier for Lori Walsh and others to interview people from the areas. That’s a good thing.” - Erwin Reimann, Rapid City 24
Where Do We Go from Here?, SDPB’s community discussion series, spotlights Spearfish elementary and high school teachers and students who are engaging civically through the We the People program. Making a Living, SDPB’s local business and economic discussion series, features the organization Strong Towns, an international movement aimed at making communities in the US and Canada financially strong and resilient. May 22, Chief U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Viken and former SD Attorney General Mark Meierhenry present “Operation Hotbed: Who Really Ended Prostitution in Deadwood” jointly to public audiences in the Black Hills and Sioux Falls Studios. Also webcast live on SDPB.org, the discussion covers the state and federal roles in the 1980s grand jury investigation and the current issue of sex trafficking.
May 23, local musicians JAS Quintet present a live, public, in-studio performance in Sioux Falls on Jazz Nightly with Karl Gehrke. South Dakota High School All-State Band Concert airs May 25, SD Middle School All-State Band and Middle School All-State Jazz Band concerts air May 26 on SDPB-TV and SDPB.org. for family and fans wherever they are. Vanished South Dakota: Towns of Yesterday screens to 82 folks at Presentation College in Aberdeen, to 55 history buffs at the Ft. Sisseton Historical Festival. SDPB Marketing is also on-hand at the Festival to engage South Dakotans in SDPB’s history programming and resources. South Dakota FOCUS presents four programs in May, including discussions on the toll and prevention of Chronic Wasting Disease in SD’s deer populations, deterring the spread of Emerald Ash Borers in the state’s ash trees, an outlook on the 2019 tourism season, and a special presentation on aging, taped in front of a live studio audience at Sioux Falls’ Active Generations Center during their Coalition on Aging Conference. On Call with the Prairie Doc® features four programs featuring live discussions with local medical practitioners on topics such as hair loss and skin aging, drug benefits and side effects, addressing chronic pain in new ways, and addiction to opioids, alcohol and tobacco. No Cover, No Minimum holds a live filming and concert at the SDPB Vermillion studio on May 31 featuring local musicians, The Rough Diamonds. May wraps up SDPB digital series Stay Crafty SoDak with SDPB’s Chynna Lockett. The series introduces viewers to different South Dakota crafters and demostrates projects viewers can make at home. SDPB Magazine profiles musicians from Belle Fourche and the greater Black Hills area who are submitting original music and videos to NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert Contest. SDPB Radio offers 32+ hours of local programming, including stories and updates on Health & Education in South Dakota from SDPB News reporter Jackie Hendry. In May, SDPB’s Social Media reaches 2,012,852, SDPB digital shorts secure 575,691 views, and total followers increases to 105,385.
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JUNE 2019
SDPB garners five Regional Edward R. Murrow Awards. In addition to winning “Overall Excellence” for the fifth consecutive year, SDPB wins:
• “Excellence in Innovation” for “Images of the Past: Aunt
Sally,” about Sarah “Aunt Sally” Campbell, a teenage slave in Dakota Territory who found her freedom and became an entrepreneur
• “Feature Reporting” for “Youth Partners in Growing
Opportunities on Rosebud Reservation,” about the Rosebud Economic Development Corporation
• “Hard News” for “Dakota Students Participate in National Walkout” about Rapid City Central High School students protesting gun violence
• “Excellence in Video” for “Carrying on the Vision,” Myron
Pourier, great-great grandson of Nicholas Black Elk (Black Elk Speaks) hikes and discusses the significance of Black Elk Peak.
Leaving Redfield, a one-hour documentary on the remarkable movement to transition South Dakota’s individuals with developmental disabilities back into communities, produced with support from SDPB, premieres on SDPB-TV June 10. Vanished South Dakota: Towns of Yesterday presents five more screenings to packed audiences, including two at the Redlin Art Center Theatre in Watertown and to Vermillion’s Rotary Club. The screenings feature a Q&A with producer Stephanie Rissler and local historians. June 3-4, SDPB is in Watertown, Aberdeen and Mitchell to cover SD High School Girls and Boys Golf Championships.
“I depend on SDPB for the news and analysis I need for the courses I teach. It feels good to be able to recommend an objective and professional news source when students and others ask. The classical music channel helps take the edge off at the end of the day and puts me in the place I want to be after teaching about a troubled world.” - Tim Schorn, Vermillion 26
Each Monday during the summer during In the Moment’s twohour live broadcast each weekday, host Lori Walsh leads a free, public SDPB Brown Bag Book Club in the Sioux Falls Studios. June features readings and conversations with outgoing South Dakota Poet Laureates Lee Ann Roripaugh and incoming Christine Stewart, writer Kent Nerburn (Neither Wolf Nor Dog), and Patrick Hicks.
In the Moment also features a series of conversations with the inductees into the 2019 SD Hall of Fame, including individuals like Britton’s Clyde Frederickson and James Scull of Rapid City. SDPB Radio Programming Director Susan Hanson is named the new local host of All Things Considered. SDPB promotes a Summer of Music across platforms, including SDPB’s Summer with the Symphony, uninterrupted recordings of live performances from the SD Symphony Orchestra and interviews with the performers. Nordic folk music group Quartet Davis and Danish musician Dwight Lamb perform live in the Sioux Falls Studios, SDPB Marketing is on-site at the 605 Summer Classic, a music festival that attracts almost 5,000 folks. Making a Living discusses the South Dakota tourism industry June 25. June 26, Where Do We Go from Here? features an in-depth conversation about challenges and strengths facing Rapid City with mayor Steve Allender. The South Dakota High School Rodeo Association Board of Directors recognizes SDPB for its commitment to high school rodeo coverage. SDPB hosts a screening of American Experience: Chasing the Moon and a preview of Space Age South Dakota at the Sioux Falls Studio June 27.
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STORIES OF IMPACT SDPB is formally recognized by the South Dakota High School Rodeo Association Board of Directors for SDPB’s commitment to high school rodeo. Each June, SDPB’s TV production team, headed by Brad Van Osdel, covers the state rodeo finals. SDPB produces and broadcasts highlights and results in July.
“From myself, personally, I can’t thank you enough for all you have done to make the SDSHRA a better organization by promotion for the kids and the livestock industry in general. Thank you for making the public aware of the great rodeo athletes of South Dakota. We appreciate the friendly smiles and all of the behind-the-scenes work that you do – and the office really appreciates the live feed! Thank you for all you have done to make it possible for South Dakota youth and their followers to enjoy the great sport of Rodeo even more through your broadcasts.” -Ann Sundermann, Executive Secretary of the South Dakota High School Rodeo Association
Steven Rokusek presents the keynote address at the Sanford Science Discovery Day in Sioux Falls. Approximately 300 high school students attended the event. A biology and anatomy teacher at West Central School District comments, “Excellent job at Science Discovery Days! That
was a blast. You and your contributions to science are appreciated!”
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