IdahoPTV Reaches Out 2006

I
daho Public Television
Touches Thousands of
Idahoans in 2006
From statewide live call-in shows and Idaho Public
Television productions to specialized workshops
for child-care providers, parents and educators,
IdahoPTVmade daily contact with the state’s citizens.
Here’s the year in numbers:
IdahoPTV Nurtures Children
• 3,132 children benefited from 30 IdahoPTV Ready To Learn workshops in
which 456 parents and child-care providers learned how public television
could be used to foster reading and school readiness. 7 were offered with
Spanish language translators.
• 2,993 hours of children’s programming aired on analog television and 2,793
on IdahoPTV-Kids, a daytime digital channel.
• 20 hours of programming that pertained to parenting aired within the
overnight broadcast hours.
IdahoPTV Supports Education
• 6th year for Idaho’s First Lady to read to children on statewide television
as part of a national effort. First Lady Vicki Risch was one of 43 first spouses
who participated nationwide in READ FOR 2007. The program is archived for
streaming on the IdahoPTV Web site (idahoptv.org).
• 1,497 attempted and completed phone calls and 628 e-mails from
students to scientists on the DIALOGUE FOR KIDS science call-in show, which
airs monthly during the school year.
• 6,821,421 hits on the DIALOGUE FOR KIDS Web site during 721,417 visits.
• 21,942 e-mails to educators, including 8,586 e-mail messages providing
programming highlights and a link to the monthly Classroom Calendar,
connecting IdahoPTV on-air programs and Web-based resources to classroom
curricula.
• 1,100 hours of overnight educational television, including 162 hours of
professional development for teachers, as well as resources for K-12 classrooms
made instructional materials available to schools throughout the state.
• 498 hours of University of Idaho-produced programming aired on Educable,
including 20 new productions made in the KUID studio by Journalism and
Mass Media students.
• 784 children contributed entries for the annual Reading Rainbow Young
Writers and Illustrators Contest, 36 of whom received a certificate for first,
second or third place in their grade level.
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Boise
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Coeur d’Alene
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Moscow
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Pocatello
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Twin Falls
IdahoPTV Builds Community
• 216 hours of Idaho-related programming were telecast through
IdahoPTV’s statewide analog system, with hundreds more also scheduled
on the digital system.
• 12 presentations were made to civic, community and other groups
throughout Idaho.
• 917 people in Boise, Pocatello and Nampa attended screenings and
discussions of films from the INDEPENDENT LENS series on important and
thought-provoking social issues.
• 46 national and regional awards were received for programs that
IdahoPTV produced, including a regional Emmy.
• 133 people asked questions of 15 DIALOGUE guests; 4,930 calls were
attempted during the live shows; and 21,720 minutes of streamed video
were downloaded from the DIALOGUE Web site. 2 radio stations re-aired
DIALOGUE each week.
• 13 IdahoPTV productions were in national distribution for public
television stations.
• 160 people attended an OUTDOOR IDAHO “A Palouse Paradise” premiere
in Moscow.
• 350 people in Boise and Coeur d’Alene attended VICTORY GARDEN
events with the series’ Lifestyle co-host, Sissy Biggers.
• 250 people attended a Tim Janis concert presented by IdahoPTV on the
Idaho State University campus in Pocatello.
• 5,840 hours of High Definition digital television were delivered free
over the air in the regions of Coeur d’Alene, Moscow, Boise, Twin Falls,
Pocatello and Idaho Falls; 8,760 hours of Standard Definition television
on three digital channels — IdahoPTV Kids, IdahoPTV Learn, IdahoPTV
Citizen — were delivered free over the air in the same regions.
• 3,390 hours of DVS (described video service) enabled sight-impaired
viewers to more fully learn from and enjoy a wide variety of programs.
4,236 hours of DVS were broadcast on IdahoPTV digital channels.
• 7,760 hours of closed captioning programming, which included all
IdahoPTV productions, enabled hearing-impaired viewers to more fully
learn from and enjoy a wide variety of programs.
• 18,395,850 hits on idahoptv.org, the IdahoPTV Web site during
1,879,860 visits.
• 407,697 hits on the IDAHO REPORTS Web site. 83,258 individual
visitors were served.
• 91,876 total minutes of archived video
streaming were downloaded from
IdahoPTV’s Website.
Boise
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Coeur d’Alene
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Moscow
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Pocatello
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Twin Falls