Channel 5 Public Broadcasting, Inc.
Entertain Your Curiosity
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
PBS Reno
PBS Reno, founded in 1983, is a community-licensed public television station that broadcasts national PBS programs and award-winning locally produced content to residents in central and northern Nevada and northeastern California. Providing three digital channels of educational programming: PBS Reno (flagship), PBS Reno Create (lifestyle and how-to programming), and PBS Reno PBS Kids. PBS Reno.org enables viewers to access PBS Reno programming on-demand across devices.
PBS Reno’s mission is to entertain your curiosity. Our vision is to provide trustworthy and accessible quality content and educational services. PBS Reno broadcasts to viewers over a 75,000 square mile service area each week.
PBS Reno Curiosity Classroom
Curiosity Classroom – Multimedia educational workshops in classrooms and community organizations across Nevada. The Curiosity Classroom program currently serves over 110 schools throughout six counties. Throughout the 2021-2022 school year, PBS Reno provided PBS Reno delivered 3,689 Curiosity Classroom workshops in Washoe, Douglas, Carson, Elko, Humboldt, and Lyon counties to 71,149 students. Curiosity Classroom encompasses PBS Reno's robust offering of educational programs, including STEM workshops, literacy workshops, robotics workshops, and more. In addition, PBS Reno distributed 26,150 age-appropriate books to participating children during the 2021-2022 school year.
Young Writers Contest
A local contest designed to promote the advancement of children's literacy skills through hands-on, active learning. Winners film segments of their story in the PBS Reno studios and receive a hardbound copy of their story. 2,299 stories were received from students in K-3rd grade during this year's contest.
Reading Buddies
This 10-week program is an innovative way to help elementary students increase their vocabulary, develop self-esteem and social skills, and enhance their love of books and reading, pairing kindergarten or 1st-grade students with 4th or 5th-graders to meet one-on-one for 45-minute reading sessions.
PBS LearningMedia
Over 120,000 digital resources for educators to utilize in their classrooms.
Where we work
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Goals & Strategy
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Charting impact
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What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
Accomplishments In The Past Year
In 2019 PBS Reno:
• Brought you PBS classics and new favorites like Ken Burns’s Country Music
• Produced and broadcast a full season of ARTEFFECTS
• Filmed and began post-production on a new season of Wild Nevada
• Upgraded our transmitter- the main piece of our broadcast infrastructure
• Provided workshops to 57,000 students grades Pre-K through 4th
• And rolled out a new look as PBS Reno!
Through the continued investment from the private and corporate sectors in the communities PBS Reno serves, the station has been able to grow and expand its services to meet the needs of its viewers. We are proud that we continue to operate on a deficit-free, debt-free basis while continuing to provide the full menu of PBS programs and its unequaled line-up of high quality, non-commercial, educational programs for children.
Financials
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Operations
The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick.
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Channel 5 Public Broadcasting, Inc.
Board of directorsas of 07/22/2022
Mr. Mark Herron
The Davidson Group
Mercedes de la Garza
Mercedes de la Garza Architect Studio
David Dehls
Spectrum Enterprise
Stacey Montooth
Reno-Sparks Indian Colony
Christine Fey
Community Volunteer
Greg Mosier
University of Nevada, Reno College of Business
Mark Herron
The Davidson Group
L. Mark Newman
Atalanta Investment Company
Dr. Karin Hilgerson
Truckee Meadows Community College
Terry Oliver
Reno Lumber
M. Donald Kowitz
Community Volunteer
Jacey Prupas
Snell & Wilmer
Floyd Rowley
Johnson Group Commercial Real Estate
Rodney Sanford
Wealth Management Advisor
Tom Taelour
Community Volunteer
Sue Wagner
Community Volunteer
Bayo Curry-Winchell
Saint Mary's Hospital
Will Arndt
Net NV LLC
Thomas Karlo
Community Volunteer
Katy Simon Holland
Simon and Associates
Michael Rooker
Wells Fargo Private Bank
Bradley Johnson
North Tahoe Public Utility District
Lori Gilbert
Elko Radio
Board leadership practices
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Board orientation and education
Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? Yes -
CEO oversight
Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? Yes -
Ethics and transparency
Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Yes
Organizational demographics
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