npt report to the community 2013

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Reportto the Community

2013

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A Letter from the President

Each year, our Report to the Community marks the end of another fiscalyear, surveying a dozen months of achievements in programming, community engagement, digital strategies and service to the MiddleTennessee community. It’s also an opportunity to hint at what’s coming next.

This time, we not only celebrate one year of NPT, but 50 years, and lookahead with an even deeper understanding of who we are -- inward at our role as a non-profit community licensed public television station, and outward at the needs of the city we represent. That’s why in the pagesahead you find us reminiscing about how far we’ve come, from our beginnings as a school-board licensed station named WDCN. But not too much. There’s work to do in the Nashville that we live in now. So you’ll read about our continued work on the Children’s Health Crisis andNext Door Neighbors projects. You’ll discover our new documentary uncov-ering disturbing domestic violence statistics, and be introduced to a newinitiative designed to engage the public in discussions about aging.

Contemporary public media means telling stories like these, but alsoengaging historians to help us understand now, the ramifications of whathappened then, as our Tennessee Civil War 150 series does so well. It also means documenting the vibrant travel, art and cultural scene inNashville, as our signature shows like Tennessee Crossroads and Arts Break do better than anyone else.

We’re proud of where we’ve been. And excited about where we’re going.And honored you’re joining us. Thank you for making the journey possible.

Beth CurleyPresident and CEONashville Public Television

NPT Officers & DirectorsRichard F. Warren, Jr., ChairBeth Curley, President and CEORobert V. Dale, TreasurerFrank E. Gordon, SecretaryScott E. BeckerJeffrey W. Buntin, Sr.Gloria ChurchwellThomas G. CigarranAnne DavisHoward GentryWilliam W. HastingsJack D. Lowery, Jr.Cheryl W. MasonDebby Dale MasonCharlie McCarterSusannah Scott-BarnesTimothy J. WalshPeggy WarnerCristina Welhoelter

EmeritusCharles W. Cook, Jr.Ben R. Rechter

NPT Community Advisory BoardBob Loflin, Chair

NPT Senior ManagementBeth Curley, President and CEOKevin Crane,

VP of Content and TechnologyKathy McElroy,

VP & Chief Financial OfficerDaniel Tidwell,

VP of Development and Marketing

On the front cover, top left, clockwise: MinniePearl and Roy Acuff on Live from the Grand OleOpry, March 1978, 1979 & 1980. TennesseeCrossroads production shoot, circa 1990. A Word on Words with John Siegenthaler premiered in January 1972. Volunteer Gardenerstarted in 1991 with Malcolm and Mary Rust.Fran Powell in Jellybean Junction, 1974 and1975. “Teleteacher” Ms. Henderson on set. Back cover, top row: Medical Town Meeting, a live call-in show, circa 1992. Starting in 1972,WDCN covered the Metro Council meetings livefor over two decades. Middle row: Pat Sajak onAction Auction in 1975. Robin Roberts andDemetria Kalodimos on Action Auction in 1987.Al Gore on Action Auction. Bottom row: OprahWinfrey on the public affairs show Symposia:Episodes in Black hosted by Gale Choice. Amusical taping prior to 1973.

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From left, Julie Dunfey, producer, The Dust Bowl, Dayton Duncan, writer and producer, The DustBowl, Beth Curley, NPT president and CEO, and Kevin Crane, NPT VP of content and technology.


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This fiscal year marked a milestone -- Nashville Public Television’s 50th anniversary. It was in September 1962 that we, then WDCN, signedon the air. Plenty has happened since, including a shiftfrom channel 2 to 8 in 1973 – with a little help fromMorgan Freeman and Big Bird – and a rebranding ofthe station as NPT at the beginning of the new millenni-um. And who can forget the digital transition in 2009?We certainly can’t.

Middle Tennesseans who grew up watching WDCN willremember national kids’ productions like SesameStreet, Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, Electric Companyand Reading Rainbow. But they will also rememberlocally produced shows like Mrs.Cabboble’s Cabooseand Music FunFactory, hosted by the inestimable FranPowell. Kids and adults alike will remember TennesseeOutdoorsman, which premiered in 1971. And then there was Action Auction, an on-air auction to raisefunds for WDCN that became a yearly event until 2001,and included such notable guests as Good MorningAmerica’s Robin Roberts and Nashville’s own DemetriaKalodimos. Tennessee native Oprah Winfrey, then MissBlack Tennessee, hosted a local health call-in show. Inthe late 70s, WDCN and WSM worked together to bringLive from the Grand Ole Opry to households across thecountry. The program still ranks as one of PBS’ most-watched programs. In 1980, WDCN was the firstNashville station to bring closed-captioning for thehearing impaired.

NPT has always been dedicated to broadcasting quali-ty arts programming, bringing the art world into thelives of Nashvillians, and bringing Nashville to theworld. Over the years, through programs such as GreatPerformances, American Masters, Live from the LincolnCenter, Simon Schama’s Power of Art, MasterpieceTheatre, the Newport Jazz Festival, Art 21: Art in the21st Century, Renoir to Rothko: The Eye of DuncanPhillips, How Art Made the World, Frida Kahlo, SylviaHyman: Eternal Wonder, John Baeder: PleasantJourneys and The Gift, NPT has served more artspatrons on a yearly basis than any other arts organiza-tion in the area. Local productions of Christmas atBelmont and the Nashville Symphony’s Opening Galaat the Schermerhorn Symphony Center showed thenation what Nashville is capable of.

Our local series have become renowned throughout thenation for consistently drawing some of the strongestviewership in public television. Tennessee Crossroadscelebrated its 25th Anniversary this year. A Word onWords wrapped its 41st year, making it the longest-run-ning book discussion show on television, by far.Volunteer Gardener celebrated its 21st season in 2013.

NPT has come a long way in 50 years, and so has thecommunity it serves. Who would have thought back

then that Nashville would have one the nation’s largestKurdish populations, and a diverse, thriving communitymade up of new arrivals from Somalia, Bhutan, Egypt,Mexico, South America and Sudan? NPT profiled themall on its Emmy Award-winning Next Door Neighborsseries, with the same respect it’s reserved for celebrat-ing the region’s more-established cultural connectionsto country music, bluegrass, and the natural beauty of the state.

We marked our 50th in a number of ways. We produced a highlight show, NPT: The First 50 Years,complete with rare program clips and interviews with

favorite NPT personali-ties. We made a wish forlongtime viewers cometrue with the release of aDVD of some of Powell’sfavorite episodes fromMrs. Cabobble’sCaboose. And we usedFacebook’s timeline feature to publish dozens of photos andtidbits from our history. Be sure to browsethrough. It’s a wonderful trip made possible by you, and for you.

Celebrating 50 Years

Installation of satellite dish, 1978. Live broadcast of Metro Council meeting.

WDCN signs on from its Rains Avenue building, 1976.


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American GraduateThis past year, NPT continued its role as a part ofAmerican Graduate: Let’s Make it Happen, a nationalpublic media initiative funded by the Corporation forPublic Broadcasting (CPB) to help Nashville and other

communities across Americaaddress high school dropout rates.We broadcast our first original documentary as part of the projectin October 2012. Produced by

LaTonya Turner, NPT Reports: Translating the Dreamtakes an in-depth look at the graduation rate amongELL and immigrant students in Tennessee, the chal-lenges they face that can prevent them from graduat-ing on time, how schools and teachers are trying toaddress this increasingly demanding need, and how all of us are impacted when students drop out ofschool. In January, our second documentary aired.NPT Reports: Graduation by the Numbers examines theefforts in Nashville to keep students in school until theygraduate. The initiative was enhanced with numerousscreenings, both in the community and online.

In September 2012, NPT was one of dozens of publicstations across the country participating in AmericanGraduate Day – an unprecedented, simultaneousseven-hours of special programming focusing on education.

Tennessee Civil War 150Begun in 2011 to coincide with the sesquicentennial ofthe Civil War, our original series Tennessee Civil War150 continued this year. Created in partnership with theRenaissance Center, topics include the role of women,rivers and railways, music, the African-American expe-rience and the Battle of Shiloh. In 2013, we producedtwo new episodes. In February, we premiered LookingOver Jordan: African-Americans and The War. Co-produced by series producer Ed Jones and LaTonyaTurner with a musical score by the team of Joey Hodgeand Joe DelMerico (HD Productions), the documentaryincludes in-depth interviews with Civil War scholars,historical reenactments, and moving songs of faith andhope, illustrating that despite continued oppressionand violence, African Americans worked tirelessly torebuild families torn apart by slavery, to educate them-selves, and to claim their rightful place as Americancitizens. Rivers and Rails: Daggers of the Civil War,

produced by the Renaissance Center, premiered in May.It explores how transportation by water and steel broughtgreat prosperity to the state just before the Civil War, onlyto give the invading Union Army a highway directly intothe Deep South, eventually helping force theConfederacy to its knees.

Tennessee ExplorersTennessee’s history began with exploration, and thatsame adventurous spirit lives on today. In July, we premiered Tennessee Explorers, a partnership betweenVanderbilt University and NPT funded by The NationalScience Foundation, that focuses on world class explor-ers across our state who are doing amazing research inmany different types of science — creating new tech-nologies and mentoring the next generation of explorers. The first episode, produced by Ed Jones(Tennessee Civil War 150, Visions of the American West),looks inside some of the brilliant Tennessee minds lead-ing us into the future: bio-anthropologist Tiffiny Tung,astrophysicist Keivan Stassun, and physician RheaSeddon, one of NASA’s first female astronauts.

Programming

NPT Reports: Public Affairs Documentaries on Today’s Most Important Topics

NPT Reports is our publicaffairs brand for timely publicaffairs documentaries. Thisyear, we continued explo-

rations into children’s health, took an unflinching look atdomestic violence and took steps toward a new initia-tive on senior health.

With 35 percent of U.S. children living in a single parenthousehold and one in 20 children in Tennessee beingraised by a grandparent, it is clear the typical Americanfamily is no longer typical. In NPT Reports: Children’sHealth Crisis: Family Health — the seventh installmentin NPT’s Emmy Award-winning series — we explore the role shifting family structures play in the health ofTennessee children. Produced by Will Pedigo and host-ed by actress Kimberly Williams-Paisley (Father of theBride, According to Jim, and Nashville), the documen-tary premiered in June 2013. Focusing on early child-hood, it examines non-traditional families overcoming


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Programming

Tennessee CrossroadsAs Tennessee Crossroads wraps up its 25th year, itcontinues to be the most-watched locally-producedPBS program in the United States. We thank you, the

viewers, for introducing us to new artisans, restaurants, festivals andattractions that help make the showthe Tennessee adventure that it is.

Other PBS stations continue toapproach us about what makes the show “work.” Ourresponse? A great team of producers/writers with out-standing storytelling abilities mixed in with some EmmyAward-winning videographers and editors.

This year, Crossroads gave fans 45 new stories, fromthe off-the-beaten-path studio of a master chairmakerin Athens to the five-star Hermitage Hotel in Nashvilleand the farm that supplies its restaurant. We met theofficial artist for Elvis Presley Enterprises and learned a few moves from a world-renowned buck dancer inMurfreesboro. We visited historic sites The BluebirdCafé and United Record Pressing in Music City, caughtup with a banjo ukulele craftsman in Sommerville, andspent time with artists who create everything frombeautiful couture dresses from recyclable materials

(Chattanooga) to sweet con-fections (Paris).

To celebrate our 25thAnniversary, we revisited the archives for stories fromJanet Tyson, Al Voecks andthe late Jerry Thompson,aired the special, TennesseeCrossroads: The Early Years,and commissioned a speciallimited edition Hatch ShowPrint for our “KeepCrossroads Traveling”fundraising campaign.

Light: Bruce Munro at CheekwoodUsing an inventive array of materials and hundreds ofmiles of glowing optic fiber, light artist Bruce Munrotransformed Cheekwood’s beautiful gardens into anenchanting, dream-like landscape in the summer of2013, and NPT was there to capture it with our owndocumentary, Light: Bruce Munro at Cheekwood. Thisbeautiful profile of the exhibit by the British artist, onlyhis second in America, includes gorgeous photographyand in-depth interviews.

challenges and demonstrates the importance of parentsin child development. In particular, it takes a close lookat the impact fathers have in the overall wellbeing ofchildren. The documentary was previewed the morningof its premiere at the Fatherhood Summit, an inauguralevent hosted by the Metro Public Health Department’sNew Life Program.

Recognizing that the number of incidents and severityof domestic violence has been a public safety crisis in Tennessee for a decade, NPT, in March 2013, took a significant step toward educating the public and confronting the issues with NPT Reports: DomesticViolence: Living in Fear. In a new documentary, pro-duced by Emmy Award-winning Greta Requierme (NoGoing Back: Women and the War), we learn about thesurvivors, the perpetrators, and the witnesses to thesecriminal acts of violence, through candid interviews with Nashville domestic violence experts and survivoradvocates. This program is just one part of our Womenand Girls Lead effort.

In the spring, as a precursor to the new multi-year documentary series and initiative Aging Matters that welaunched in September 2013, we worked with AliveHospice to gather community members and profession-als in Studio A to tape End of Life Decisions: An NPTReports Town Hall Special. Broadcast in April andalways available online at wnpt.org/agingmatters, theconversation focuses on the disparity between what we say we want at the end of life and what actuallyhappens, how we can remedy that, and options for care at the end of life.


A Word on WordsOne on One with John SeigenthalerIn his 41st season, A Word and Words host JohnSeigenthaler set a new record for shows, taping

48 episodes in 12 months!Highlights of the seasonincluded an career-

spanning discussion withMargaret Atwood, 2012 Nashville Public LibraryFoundation Literary Award recipient, as well as inter-views with R.L. Stine (Red Rain: A Novel), StephenMansfield (Lincoln’s Battle with God and MormonizingAmerica), Al Gore (The Future: Six Drivers of GlobalChange) Evan Thomas (Ike’s Bluff), Caroline KennedySchlossberg (Listening In: The Secret White HouseRecordings of JFK), Jon Meacham (Thomas Jefferson:The Art of Power), Buzz Bissinger (Father’s Day: AJourney into the Heart and Mind of an ExtraordinarySon) and David Maranniss (Barack Obama: The Story).

Seigenthaler also sat down this year with prominentNashvillians to discuss current events of interest to thecity for the show One on One with John Seigenthaler.Episodes this year included Dr. Jesse Register, DirectorMetro Nashville Public Schools and Tasha FrenchLemley, Executive Director of The Contributor.

Volunteer GardenerVolunteer Gardener’s 21st season continued to providesolid gardening advice for Tennessee growers, with 20 fresh half-hour episodes and a new segment host,

landscape architect Bryan Obara.Segments this season includedadvice on varied plant problems,

expanding the plant palette bypushing the climate zone and raising beds for bothvegetables and ornamentals. The show also continuedto highlight the gardens of do-it-yourselfers anddesigners, and visited places of special gardeninginterest, such as the trial gardens of two renowneddaylily hybridizers.

Arts BreakNashville’s growth as an arts destination has explodedin the last few years, with several neighborhoods host-ing monthly art crawls, local museums hosting majorexhibitions and public art sprouting up everywhere. Foryears, Arts Break, produced by Linda Wei, has been

documenting this growth, and intro-ducing viewers on-air and online toall that the city has to offer. This

year we produced 25 new ArtsBreaks. Highlights included visits to The Larry KeetonTheatre’s Youth Summer Camp, the Tennessee Perform-ing Arts Center production of The Nutty Professor, TheMusical (with a guest spot by Jerry Lewis), NashvilleShakespeare Festival’s Much Ado About Nothing,Nashville Symphony’s Mahler’s 8th – Symphony of aThousand, Nashville Public Library’s CourtyardConcerts, Dance Theatre of Tennessee’s Ballet in thePark production of Carmen, Studio Tenn’s Smokey Joe’sCafé (featuring Melinda Doolittle), Circle Players’ pro-duction of The Color Purple, Centennial Youth Ballet,Blackbird Theater’s Amadeus and Tennessee RepertoryTheatre’s production of The Columnist.

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ArtQuestArt education has always been an essential part of the curriculum that accompanies much of children’s

programming. In October of 2012,NPT and the Frist Center for theVisual Arts announced a new part-nership designed to encouragechildren to be more involved in the

arts. ArtQuest: Art Is All Around You is a series of shortbroadcast segments focusing on developing children’screativity and fostering a love for the visual arts throughan interdisciplinary approach. Titled after the FristCenter’s interactive learning gallery for children of allages, and produced by Linda Wei and edited by MattEmigh of NPT, the segments are geared toward viewersages 7-9, air on NPT between 4-6 p.m. and are avail-able at youtube.com/nptarts. The first season wasmade up of 18 episodes, hosted by teens Dajiah Plattand Joseph Lopez, focusing on art in architecture,public art and nature.

Programming

Mark Shriver, left, and John Seigenthaler on A Word on Words.

ArtQuest hosts Dajiah Platt, left, and Joseph Lopez.


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From its humble beginnings 50 years ago,education has always been the primary goal of NPT,whether it’s pre-K children just opening their eyes tothe world around them, or adults yearning to betterunderstand the world they live in. NPT’s educationdepartment is the command center for much of thiswork, maintaining relationships with community part-ners and conducting numerous workshops with teachers, students and families throughout the year. In addition to ongoing work, this year featured a num-ber of special projects.

As part of NPT’s partnership with the TennesseeDepartment of Education’s Race to the Top initiative,we are producing a collection of online digital mediamodules called Road to the Common Core: ReadingGrades K-3 for teacher professional development. The collection is part of the free PBS LearningMediawebsite – tn.pbslearningmedia.org – a media-on-demand service developed for Pre K-12 teachers and students.

NPT was one of five stations across the country part-nering with the CPB on the RTL Transmedia project, aReady to Learn grant. The grant is aimed at improvingthe math and literacy skills of children ages two toeight from low-income families. Together with NashvillePromise Neighborhood, we worked to address the digital divide and provide online learning content tofamilies, schools, and afterschool programs.

As part of the American Graduate: Let’s Make itHappen initiative, NPT hosted a screening of 80 Daysin an American High School and discussion withNashville principals of alternative schools. This film isan intimate portrait of life for the first graduating classof Washington Metropolitan High School (DC Met), apublic school in Washington, D.C, where only sevenpercent of students are deemed “proficient” in mathand only 19 percent in reading.

For NPT’s Children’s Health Crisis project, we conduct-ed Healthy Habits Family Nights at schools with lowincome and high immigrant populations. For Next DoorNeighbors, we conducted 30 Family Literacy Trainingsin Davidson and Rutherford Counties.

Through a WNET grant, NPT partnered with theNashville Shakespeare Festival to present a number ofevents and activities promoting the series ShakespeareUncovered. These included Shakespeare Allowedreadings at the Nashville Public Library and aShakespeare birthday celebration event.

EducationDigital Engagement

As part of our continuing Next Door Neighborsproject, NPT held its first Storyteller Boot Camp in July2012. Led by NPT producer Will Pedigo and produc-tion assistant Soraya Salam, local immigrants andrefugees spent three days learning digital storytellingskills, from writing a script to using a camera to pickinga story idea to create a video destined for theStorytellers blog (wnpt.org/storytellers) and YouTubechannel. The bootcamp attracted participants fromnumerous backgrounds, including Bhutan, Mexico,Kurdistan, and Rwanda and resulted in a vibrant col-lection of thoughtful, personal stories sharing insightson Bhutanese refugee camps, Mexican second-generation identity, Nepali food traditions,urban gardening and more.

NPT continues to be a leader in the OVEE onlinescreening platform created by ITVS. As a testing station, we held over a dozen digital screenings,including a nostalgic compilation of Mrs. Cabobble’sCaboose and Jellybean Junction in September 2012,our American Graduate documentary, Translating theDream, in January, and Living On: TennesseansRemembering the Holocaust in April.

The NPT Media Update blog is now one of the mostvisited sections of our web site. In addition to posts onNPT programming and news, visitors got an exclusiveinterview with Nashville resident and award-winningauthor Gary Slaughter, a young naval communicationsofficer on the USS Cony during the Cuban MissileCrisis, and Daniel Cohen, director of Space ShuttleColumbia: Mission of Hope. In an unprecedented bloginitiative, we partnered with the Vanderbilt UniversitySchool of Nursing’s nurse midwives to give fans of theshow Call the Midwife a “morning-after analysis” everyMonday morning following the previous night’sepisodes. In the fall of 2012 and spring of 2013, the midwives provided historical and contemporarycontext on the shows and shared their own takes onthe moving, intimate, funny and true-to-life series about midwifery and families in London’s East End in the 1950s.

NPT’s social media channels continue to be excellenttools for engagement, with our Facebook and Twitterchannels actively engaging with more than 5,000 and7,000 fans and followers, respectively. TennesseeCrossroads reaches more 7,000 fans on Facebook.Collectively, our YouTube channels for NPT, VolunteerGardener, Tennessee Crossroads and Arts Connectionhave had more than two million views as of this report.


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Two NPT productions, both from our Tennessee CivilWar 150 series, were awarded Emmys this year, raisingour total to 42 wins since 2001. Crisis of Faith won in the Documentary/Cultural category, earning statuettesfor Justin Harvey, Paul Mojonnier and Kevin Crane, while No Going Back: Women and the War won in theHistorical/Cultural Program category, handing Emmys to Greta Requierme, Ed Jones, Beth Curley and theshow’s narrator, Mary Chapin Carpenter.

In February, NPT president and CEO Beth Curleyreceived The Nashy Award for OutstandingContributions to the Growth of the Nashville Film and

Cultural Community. Theaward was presented byNashville Mayor Karl Deanat the annual NashvilleFilm/Television Town Meetingat the Belcourt Theatre.

In October 2012, NPTpicked up a NationalEducational Telecommuni-cations Association (NETA)award for the outstandingcommunity engagementaspect of our Next DoorNeighbors Storytellers project.

Awards

NPT continues to believe in a 360 approach to deliv-ering our content and engaging with our community,whether it’s on-air, online or on-the-ground, and thatoften means hosting screenings, partnering with otherorganizations and being part of special events.

In fiscal year 2012-13, we again partnered with ITVSand the Nashville Public Library to bring the communityfree Community Cinema screenings of IndependentLens documentaries. From September to June, oneSaturday a month, this meant receptions before, andengaging panels and discussions after, documentaryfilms that focused on a variety of issues. Additionally, in September 2013, we partnered with the LipscombUniversity HumanDocs series to co-present the docu-mentary Nostalgia for the Light, and kicked off our partnership with the Vanderbilt University School ofNursing, and its support of the British drama Call theMidwife, with a free screening at Sarratt Cinema of thefirst episode. December saw an event our membershave come to expect, the sneak peek look at the firstepisode of the new season of Downton Abbey. TheFrist Center for the Visual Arts hosted the screening,which drew a packed audience.

We continued our partnership with the Nashville FilmFestival in April, by awarding the NPT Human SpiritAward to a filmmaker’s work that best explores andcaptures the human spirit. This year it was RemoteArea Medical, directors Jeff Reichert and FarihahZaman’s document of the annual three-day “pop-up”medical clinic organized by the non-profit Remote AreaMedical (RAM) at the Bristol, Tennessee NASCARspeedway.

In January, the opportunity to give our members asneak peek of the new Ken Burns documentary TheDust Bowl found us partnering with the TennesseeState Museum for a special evening of film, commen-tary from The Dust Bowl writer Dayton Duncan and pro-ducer Julie Dunfrey, and music by singer-songwriterand notable Woody Guthrie interpreter James Talley.

One of our most important partnerships and eventswas in November, when we joined the Women’s FundForum at the First Amendment Center for an education-al event focused on human sex trafficking in the stateof Tennessee. NPT reporter and producer LaTonyaTurner moderated the event, which included a screen-ing of segments from the documentary Half the Sky, as well as insight from the United States Attorney’soffice, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, theTennessee Bureau of Investigation, Magdalene Houseand End Slavery Tennessee. The event was live-blogged on NPT Media Update, and video from theevent was placed on our YouTube Channel.

Special Events/Partnerships/Screenings

From left, Beth Curley, NPT president and CEO, RepresentativeMarsha Blackburn, Aleta Trauger and Barbara Barton.

Singer-songwriter James Talley and Dayton Duncan, writer and producer, at our screening of Ken Burns’ The Dust Bowl.

Skip Hinton, left, NETA president, and Joe Pagetta,

NPT director of media relationsand online strategies.


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In FY13, community support made up 48%($2,511,086) of NPT’s operating revenue – the largestsource of funding in our $5,271,961 budget. Member-ship gifts from individual donors were the largest source of gifts to NPT, making up $1,963,388 or 37% of overall revenue. Corporate ($201,622) and founda-tion ($267,400) funding as well as a variety of specialevents also provided NPT with vital support for programs and services.

NPT’s signature projects also rely on the major supportof community partners:

• A generous commitment from Cigna-HealthSpring made possible the launch of NPT Reports: AgingMatters in FY13. Other key partners for this new projectinclude The West End Home Foundation, the JeanetteTravis Foundation and the Corporation for PublicBroadcasting.

• Another year of NPT Reports: Children’s Health Crisiswas made possible by the generous support of theHealthways Foundation, the Nashville Health CareCouncil, The HCA Foundation, Metro Public HealthDepartment and the Baptist Healing Trust.

• Tennessee Civil War National Heritage Area andTennessee Department of Tourist Development madepossible another year of NPT’s Tennessee Civil War 150 series.

• The Nissan Foundation and the Corporation for PublicBroadcasting provided major leadership support inFY13 for NPT’s Next Door Neighbors project, enablingNPT to further broaden the reach of the project.

• Major support for NPT Reports: Domestic Violence –Living in Fear was provided by Waller, the FirstTennessee Foundation and the Women’s Fund of The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee.

• The Ingram Charitable Fund and the Tennessee ArtsCommission made possible another year of NPT ArtsBreak while The Frist Foundation made possible a newarts education project for children: ArtQuest.

• Other major foundation support was provided by TheMemorial Foundation and The Martin Foundation. NPT’sliteracy outreach efforts in the community were funded

by The Dollar General Literacy Foundation and theCracker Barrel Foundation.

NPT raised vital operating funds with a variety of specialevents during FY13:

• In January, Downton Abbey fans dressed in period costumes and gathered in NPT’s Studio A for a specialviewing of the premiere of Downton Abbey’s third season. Luscious Victorian fare was donated by B&CCatering, while Vicki Turner/VPT Ventures provided aselection of distinctive wines.

• Downton fans toasted the conclusion of the season at NPT’s Downton Abbey Affair, held in March at theCheekwood Mansion. Guests donned elaborate costumes and dined on a sophisticated period feast prepared by Kristen Winston Catering while enjoying livemusic from Jim Hoke and the Hot Three. A live auction ofa Viking River Cruise and a costume contest rounded outthe evening. Major sponsors for the event included HCATriStar Health, Viking River Cruises and H Three Events,Vicki Turner/VPT Ventures and Phillipe Chadwick.

• More than 125 NPT members and viewers gathered atthe Radisson Hotel at Nashville’s Airport for NPT’s FineArts and Appraisal Day in March. Noted appraisers fromacross the region donated their time and major sponsorsincluded Radisson Hotel Nashville Airport, CaseAntiques and GasLamp Antiques and GasLamp Too.

• At the second annual Big Yellow Bird Ball, fans wore theirbest yellow attire to Ruby Event Space and danced thenight away to the tunes of DJ Nekos Barnes. Chef’sMarket generously provided an elegant themed buffetwhile PourTaste served up specialty cocktails to guests.Major event sponsors included H Three Events, Chef’sMarket, Lipman, PourTaste, Phillipe Chadwick, VisualElements, Minuteman Press, Katy’s Hallmark and DJNekos Barnes.

Generous volunteers are instrumental in helping NPTprovide outstanding programming and communityengagement. We are extremely grateful to all those who gave their time this past year to help ensure thefuture of our mission to Middle Tennessee.

FundingNashville Public Television

2013 Operating Revenue & Operating Expenses

Total Operating Revenue$5,271,961

Total Operating Expenses$4,921,458

State of Tennessee

CPB

Individual

Corporate

Foundations

Earned Revenue

Programming & Outreach

Administration

Fundraising

Technology

27%

9%

16%

39%4%

5%

9%

17%

15%

59%


Broadcasters' Circle $5,000-$9,999Anthony BartonMr. and Mrs. R.E. BaulchMr. and Mrs. Thomas G. CigarranThe Community Foundation

of Middle TennesseeThe Cracker Barrel FoundationMr. and Mrs. Richard EskindFirst Tennessee FoundationThe Landis B. Gullett Charitable FundMike Shmerling

Leadership Circle $2,500-$4,999Dr. Trey Calfee and

Dr. Lisa Richardson-CalfeeAndrea Conte and Phil BredesenMr. and Mrs. Charles W. Cook, Jr.Laurie and Steven EskindMr. and Mrs. William R. Frist, Jr. Sharon HerndonDr. and Mrs. Howard KirshnerMr. and Mrs. Michael A. Koban, Jr.Mr. and Mrs. F. Max MerrellSusan and Luke SimonsJamie G. TaylorTennessee Arts CommissionPeggy and John WarnerMr. and Mrs. Richard F. Warren, Jr.Mr. and Mrs. David Williams

Producer's Society $1,000-$2,499Aladdin Industries FoundationAnonymousTim ArnoldApril AshburnMr. and Mrs. Larry AshworthMr. and Mrs. Scott BatesLillian BennettRonald BerridgeMr. and Mrs. David BohanRobert BoninoGladys BratcherBridgestone AmericasMr. and Mrs. Frank BumsteadMr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Buntin, Sr.John E. Cain IIIMr. and Mrs. Harold J. CastnerGloria and Kevin ChurchwellElsie H. ClarkEden and William Cochran, Jr.Dorothy L.T. ConkinMary Jo and Greg CoteMr. and Mrs. Joe D. CrumpackerBeth CurleyMr. and Mrs. Jerald DoochinDouglas DorrellDiana and John DossAnnette EskindDonna and Jeffrey EskindMr. and Mrs. Dewitt EzellDr. Meredith A. EzellMr. and Mrs. Frank GordonMr. and Mrs. Joel C. GordonSara and Stanley GraberMr. and Mrs. Harry A. HainesBrian J. Harris and Jennifer E. Moore

William HastingsMichelle HaynesLyman O. HeidtkeMr. and Mrs. Henry D. HerrDr. Melissa HilmesJoyce and David HittWilliam Warren Jenkins

Charitable TrustPatricia and Howard JonesMr. and Mrs. Thomas Kanaday, Jr.Mr. and Mrs. William B. KingHeloise Werthan KuhnMr. and Mrs. John F. LeeMr. and Mrs. Thomas A. LincolnMarvine LongwoodDr. and Mrs. Sam R. Marney, Jr.Jeff L. MartinCheryl W. MasonDebby Dale MasonSimon McCainMr. and Mrs. James MeadowsMr. and Mrs. Ken MelkusThe Honorable Gilbert S. MerrittThe Rev. and

Mrs. H. Gudger Nichols, Jr.Ruby NorthcuttDr. Ken OostingKimberly Williams Paisley and

Brad PaisleyVadis L. PierceMr. and Mrs. Joe D. PowellMargaret PritchettDr. Eric L. Raefsky and

Victoria A. HeilElizabeth Ragland ChalfantRobert RamseyHilda B. RatnerFarmer Jason/Jason RingenbergMargaret Ann RobinsonChristy and Phillip RobinsonDr. and Mrs. Dan M. RodenAnne and Charles RoosDr. and Mrs. John C. RoyGeorgianna RussellLisa and Bob SchatzFernando F. SegoviaJoan Shayne,

The Blum Family FoundationAnn and Jon ShayneMr. and Mrs. Irvin SmallMr. and Mrs. William T. SpitzWorth Paul SquireTracy and Michael StadnickHilda StrunkJohn TudorMr. and Mrs. Jack B. TurnerVicki TurnerVanderbilt UniversityDr. and Mrs. Robert W. WahlDr. and Mrs. William H. Wall IIIDonna and Tim WalshMr. and Mrs. Robert J. Warner, Jr.Mr. and Mrs. Kent WeeksPeggy and Walter WestAnne D. WhiteCharles Hampton WhiteJohn WilliamsMr. and Mrs. Julian ZanderThe Zinghoppers

NPT thanks these supporters for their generosity during fiscal year 2012-2013.

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Director's Society $500-999Henry J. AbbottJennie L. AdamsBeth and Dave AlexanderDr. William C. Alford, Jr.Mr. and Mrs. C. Dale AllenDr. Joseph H. Allen, Jr.Norah Lee and Duane AllenMaurice F. AmateauJane AndersonMrs. Hunter ArmisteadMr. and Mrs. James ArmstrongStephen C. AsburyMr. and Mrs. Jim AyersNell AyersBarbara BalthropMr. and Mrs. J. Barry BankerBarbara R. BartonJames BashawDr. Jere BassHenry D. BellAnn BernardAnne and Marvin BerwindRichard BibbCindy BillingsleyOdell BinkleyThe Honorable Marsha BlackburnClaiborn R. BlevinsMr. and Mrs. J. William BlevinsJ. BogganWilliam BrewerVallie C. BrooksMr. and Mrs. Jerry BrookshireJim BrownMr. and Mrs. Brett D. BryantIris BuhlChris BuntRogers C. BuntinBarbara BurkJuanita BurksJamie and Gene BurtonGene D. BurtonJulia and Lewis ButlerVirginia ButlerMr. and Mrs. Damon ByrdKitty F. CalhoonAnn Cook CalhounMarilyn CampbellSuzanne and Graham CarpenterJanet CarrLaret CasellaMr. and Mrs. R. Booth ChapmanBarbara and Eric ChazenDonna and Pickslay Cheek, Jr.Carol CherichCharles ChristopherRosemarie and Robert CollinsJames ComptonCharles E. CookDaniel B. Cornfield, PhDRoger CrainMorgan CrawfordDonna CrippsMr. and Mrs. Joseph CushmanRichard DaftAndrew Daughty and

Jennifer ReinganumAnne Davis and

The Honorable Karl F. Dean

NPT thanks these supporters for their generous annual support duringFY13:

President's Circle $25,000+Ingram Charitable FundThe Frist FoundationThe Martin FoundationThe Memorial FoundationThe Nissan FoundationJeanette Travis Foundation

Masterpiece Guild $10,000-$24,999The Atticus TrustMr. and Mrs. Martin S. Brown, Jr.Martin S. Brown, Sr.The Ann and Monroe Carell

FoundationThe Dollar General Literacy

FoundationCarlene Lebous and Harris HastonHMS Investment Advisors -

George StadlerEstate of Sylvia G. HymanEstate of Carol E. MorrowMr. and Mrs. Benjamin R. Rechter,

The Rechter Family Advised Fundof the Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee

Susannah and Zulu Scott-BarnesWade Travis Marital TrustJudy and Steve Turner

NPT gratefully acknowledges thesemajor funding partners who havemade possible the following projectsduring FY13:

NPT Reports: Aging Matterswas made possible by the followingfunders in FY13:Cigna HealthSpringThe West End Home FoundationThe Jeanette Travis FoundationCorporation for Public Broadcasting

NPT Reports: Children's Health Crisis was made possible by the followingfunders in FY13:Healthways FoundationNashville Health Care CouncilThe HCA FoundationMetro Nashville Public Health

DepartmentBaptist Healing Trust

Tennessee Civil War 150 was made possible by the followingfunders in FY13:Tennessee Civil War

National Heritage AreaTennessee Department

of Tourist Development


Mr. and Mrs. Fred DettwillerJames DicksonJanet DossMary DuekerShirlean DuncanCharles DunnSusan Earhart Susan EdwardsJames A. Eggermann Betty EliassenJames ElliottMr. and Mrs. W. Mark EndicottWayne, Sarah and Kimberly EstesDorothy EvinsMr. and Mrs. F. Miles EzellMr. and Mrs. Steven D. EzellFabuNaill FallsBarbara FenichelMrs. T. Scott FillebrownT. Aldrich FineganEmily FlauttMr. and Mrs. Charles M. FloodMr. and Mrs. Gilbert S. FoxDr. and Mrs. Robert A. FristThe Fugitive FoundationAnn and Edwin FulcherMrs. Robert W. FullerMelinda and David GalesCharles GillJune E. GilmoreJean GipsonMr. and Mrs. Ralph GlassfordEd GoodrichMarion and Robert R. GossettAshley R. GouldKathy GouldDr. and Mrs. Thomas GrahamMr. and Mrs. Brent GravesCharles GreenD. W. GreenAngela GriffinAnn HagermanRaymond HakimPatricia W. HallTeresa HalloranEmmylou HarrisDr. AnneMarie HarrodRichard B. HartMr. and Mrs. H. Rodes HartMr. and Mrs. Spencer HaysDr. Stephan Heckers and

Dr. Christine KonradiGrace HeilCarol Ann HempfnerWallace HendersonDoris Ann HendrixJoan HenningMr. and Mrs. Herman G. HenryJames HenryLetitia M. HickoxLeslie and Charles HigginsHenry Hill, Jr.Lee HollandPeter HoltVicki and Rick HoltonDr. and Mrs. Everett Howell, Jr.Marylin HughesFred B. Hunt, Jr.Mr. and Mrs. David B. IngramFrances C. JacksonDr. and Mrs. Kenneth JacobsMichael JarrellMr. and Mrs. Cecil D. Jones, Jr.

Mary L. JonesKevin JordanDorothy KaminskiHelen L. KennedyAnne KennyTeresa KerseyDeirdre KimbroughLeslie KoleznarAnn L. KozyMaria KurtayDr. Dana L. Latour and

Dr. Paul A. LaTourJohn LeddySally M. LevineJudith and Reginald LoweMrs. Charles LowranceEdward M. LuskyJane and Donald M. MacLeodDeborah MangrumCharlotte MarshallJen and Charlie McCarterChristine and John McCarthyRobert L. McDillDr. Marcia McDonaldBeatrice C. McGeeMichael McMeansAnn and Martin McNamaraMr. and Mrs. F. Lynn McPheetersJill MeeseDr. Arthur M. MellorJacqueline F. MerrittDr. and Mrs. Alvin H. MeyerMr. and Mrs. Douglas F. MilamNancy MillerKara MitchellKathryn MitchemSophia MooreThe Rev. Charles MorelandJim MotterSuchitra MukherjiJo MullhollandMr. and Mrs. Richard A. MurphyKay and Bob MusgroveThomas H. NankervisLynn and Robert H. NealJeanie Nelson and Will MartinRobert NessKatherine and Patrick NevillLeslie and Scott NewmanMr. and Mrs. Marvin J. NischanJane K. NorrisWilliam NunnellyDr. and Mrs. Harry PageAnne B. PaineBillie and Charles PalmerWendell PardueDr. and Mrs. W. Joel PedigoJohn PellegrinCharlene L. Pershke and

Glenn D. AllenHoward L. PettyRobert A. PierceCatherine PoseyMary Y. PottsThomas Preslar and Terri PeltierDorothy PruettMary N. RaffetyDr. William RandleMr. and Mrs. Edwin B. RaskinEmily ReeceDale Reifschneider Anna ReuterMr. and Mrs. Doyle R. RippeeMr. and Mrs. David Robertson

Delma RogersJohn RogersJohanna and Richard RothbergCathy RoweBen RussMr. and Mrs. Philip R. RussPhillip SandersonEssie SappenfieldSandra SchattenPatricia SeayRussell ShanklinMr. and Mrs. Robert L. ShepherdChristine SilberbergerAllen DeCuyper and Steve SirlsAda T. SmithPatricia and Howard SmithsonSuzanne SousanCathy and Mike SowersKaren and Brian StephensMr. and Mrs. William StoneyHope and Howard StringerLottie M. StruppMary StuckBetty Ann StumbJean G. StumpfDuard SullivanJohanna and Fridolin SulserMr. and Mrs. Chris TealMr. and Mrs. Jerry ThackerAnne Marie TharpeLouis B. Todd, Jr.Candace TolerPatricia and James TolleyRichard C. Tomichek, MDDr. and Mrs. Thomas TompkinsEmily and Alexander TownesMartha TrammellAleta and Byron TraugerVictoria and Franklin TraverLaura Anne TurnerWilliam VincentMary N. WadeDick WagerAmy WagnerElizabeth WallWilliam R. WarwickCheryl WathenDr. Medford S. WebsterBetty WeddingtonCrissy and Robert WelhoelterKarie and David WellsMarilyn M. WellsPeggy West and Susan LewisPeggy L. WhitfieldMaria WieckPatty and John WilkisonMr. and Mrs. Ernest Williams IIIMr. and Mrs. Ridley Wills IIPenelope WilsonThomas WisemanKimberly WonseyMelissa Wrenn

Matching Gift CompaniesAT&TCaterpillar FoundationDellGannett Foundation

Corporate Support$20,000+Bridgestone Americas Trust FundTennessee LotteryVanderbilt University Medical Center

$10,000 - $19,999Blue Cross Blue Shield of TennesseeCrosslin & AssociatesThe Nashville SymphonyPUBLIX

$5,000 - $9,999Baker, Donelson, Bearman,

Caldwell & Berkowitz PCBradley Arant Boult Cummings LLPThe Nashville RetrospectPBSPhillips Toy MartThe Wine ChapVanderbilt University

School of Nursing

$1,000 - $4,999AEG Live / The Messina GroupNashvilleCase AntiquesCurrey Ingram AcademyEpiphany FoamFrist Center for the Visual ArtsGas Lamp AntiquesJewell MechanicalLipscomb UniversityMidSouth Sewing CenterMontgomery Bell AcademyNashville Opera AssociationNashville ZooRyman AuditoriumTennessee Central Railroad MuseumTennessee Falun Dafa AssociationTennessee Foreign Language

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NPT Event SponsorsA Downton Abbey Affair:HCA TriStar HealthViking River CruisesH Three Events Victoria Pierce Turner/ VPT Ventures Phillipe ChadwickVisual ElementsTechWorksNfocus

Antiques and Fine Arts Appraisal Day:Radisson Hotel Nashville AirportCase AntiquesGasLamp Antiques and

GasLamp Too

Big Yellow Bird Ball: Chef’s MarketH Three EventsLipmanPourTasteVisual ElementsPhillipe ChadwickMinuteman PressKaty’s HallmarkNow Playing Nashville DJ Nekos Barnes


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