RCTV Annual Report 2013 v5 panels

A N N U A L R E PORT
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A MESSAGE TO
THE COMMUNITY
RCTV began its 20th Anniversary celebration in November 2012. It has been a banner year,
marked by growth, new endeavors and investment for the future.
Just three years ago, we began upgrading the station, creating a new sub-control room and
purchasing equipment to enhance the quality of programs produced at RCTV.
Over the past year, we’ve made additional investments that are the culmination of careful
thought, research, budgeting and work. They include paying off the mortgage on RCTV’s
building, installing new studio lights, purchasing three state-of-the-art JVC High Definition
studio cameras and adding advanced digital recording capabilities. Over recent months, we
have been working on a new website that will better serve our members, producers and
viewers. All these enhancements are designed to increase member and producer benefits
and to expand the ways in which we serve our community. The new and colorful window
décor on the front of the building is an external reflection of these many internal changes.
In the past 12 months, there have been expanding collaborations with community
organizations, such as the one with The College at Brockport SUNY. Through this
partnership, we are producing Pythodd Remix, to be broadcast in January, focusing on
music, the arts and jazz.
Kabutey Ocansey
Board President
Beginning in early June, our 20th Anniversary Film Forum and Speaker Series, held at the
Cinema Theater, shed light on important topics of local and national concern. This series,
plus increased community outreach, connected us to fresh, receptive audiences who are
enthused about RCTV’s mission.
Increased membership has resulted in stronger demand for studio time, classes and
professional development workshops. To address that growth, we’ll be developing broader
offerings in a variety of media-related areas.
As we look forward to 2014, RCTV is poised to transition toward becoming RCTV Media
Center, a community-oriented resource that will maintain education and community service
at its core, and that will grow to meet the demands of Rochester, a community growing in
vibrancy.
Carvin Eison
General Manager
INCOME/E X PEN DI TURES
REV E NU E :
Fees for Service
Rental Income
Membership Contributions
Contributions
Grant revenue
Miscellaneous revenue
Donated services / goods
Total Support and Revenue:
$ 493,803
$ 20,482
$ 6,626
$
701
$ 46,901
$ 2,631
$ 1,200
$ 572,344
EX PE N D I T U R E S:
Program salaries
Payroll taxes and benefits
Depreciation
Occupancy
Repairs and maintenance
Outside services
Training and conference
Office expenses
Youth stipends
Equipment
Insurance
Other
Advertising
Supplies
Supporting Services
$ 265,875
$ 70,521
$ 53,673
$ 22,420
$ 18,695
$ 13,278
$ 9,124
$ 8,815
$
470
$ 9,414
$ 9,665
$ 1,415
$ 2,274
$ 6,401
(payroll, professional services, occupancy,
training, depreciation, insurance, etc.)
TO TA L E X P E N D I TU RES :
$ 64,082
F UNDERS AND PARTN E R S
Funding for RCTV15 comes from the 65,000 City of Rochester
residents who subscribe to Time-Warner Cable, per the franchise
agreement with the City of Rochester.
City of Rochester
Baden Street Settlement of Rochester, Inc.
The Coalition to Prevent Youth Violence
Community Place of Greater Rochester
The HEART Coalition
Metro Council for Teen Potential
Monroe County Access
Northeast Area Development
Planned Parenthood of Rochester/Syracuse Region
Rochester City School District
Rochester Institute of Technology
Rochester Movie Makers, Inc.
Summer of Opportunity Program
(Rochester Works and City of Rochester)
The College at Brockport SUNY
Threshold/Community Place
University of Rochester Medical Center
Writers & Books
$ 556,122
For year ending June 30, 2013
Rochester Community TV is proud to report its
consistent record of exceeding benchmark standards
for the ratio of program services to administrative
expenses.
RCTV expends 86% of its income on program
services and only 11% of its income on administrative
(general and management) expenses. RCTV’s low
overhead exceeds benchmarks set by the American
Institute of Philanthropy, the Council of Better
Business Bureaus and the US OPM Combined
Federal Campaign.
RCTV Board Members include, L. to R., Kabutey Ocansey, Jesse
Dudley, Zelda Artson Crichlow, Kimberly Roberson, Tremain Harris.
Not shown: Keenan Allen, Beulah Patterson, Kathleen Washington,
Rodney Allen Young.
Highlights of the Year
20TH AN N IV E R SA RY F ILM F ES TIV A L A N D SPE AK E R SE RI E S
In celebration of its 20th
Anniversary year, RCTV held a
well-attended 3-part film festival
and speaker series at the Cinema
Theater on Clinton Avenue South.
The first film, Drum Major for
Justice – the Franklin Florence
Story featured the work of local
Kate Kressman-Kehoe and Sean Donnelly
join Warm 101.3’s Pat Rivers to discuss
Comfort Zone and RCTV’s 20th Anniversary
Film Festival.
producer Chris Christopher and
filmmaker Carvin Eison. In the
documentary Comfort Zone, local
producers Kate Kressmann-Kehoe,
RCTV’s window treatments reflect internal
enhancements
ST AT I ON E NHANCE ME N T S
This past summer, RCTV had window
Sean P. Donnelly and Dave Danesh explored the regional implications of global
treatments installed on the front façade
warming. For the last film, Heist: Who Stole the American Dream, Pulitzer Prize
of the building. The new décor, designed
winning journalist David Cay Johnston shared insights on the film and challenged
by Rajesh Barnabas and produced by
the audience to become more engaged with local politics.
Signazon, has made a noticeable
impact. This exterior enhancement
CO MMU N IT Y O UT R EA C H
reflects the transformation going on
This year, RCTV increased its
inside the building that includes new
community outreach through
lighting for the studio, new digital
presentations at meetings of
recording equipment, and three new
organizations such as The Lions
JVC high definition cameras that have
Club, Pinnacle Place and the
dramatically improved the image RCTV
HAM Radio Association. During
is able to broadcast. New membership
July, RCTV sponsored and
procedures have also been put into
exhibited at the Corn Hill Arts
place providing greater security.
Festival where it recorded and
posted online video clips from a
variety of attendees who shared
messages ranging from song
and words to balloon art.
Verizon sponsored RCTV’s wireless connection
at RCTV’s Corn Hill Arts Festival booth
PR O DU C E R S’ W O R K S H OPS A N D C LA S S ES
RCTV conducted well-attended spring and fall classes in TV Studio Production and
editing. A variety of professional development workshops were also offered that included
a class on Motion software by RCTV Producer/Director Rajesh Barnabas, a four-part
workshop on Garage Band with musician and audio engineer Subhash Kulkarni, a
workshop on Making Movies on a Shoestring given by Rochester Movie Makers Founder Stanley Main, and a technology and procedures
workshop demonstrating the new equipment in the sub-control room. A diverse schedule of workshops is planned for the upcoming year.
RCTV PRODUCER MINI-GRANT
Earlier this year, RCTV awarded a
mini-grant to Saby Reyes-Kulkarni
supporting his proposal to do a short
documentary called Double Bind. The
film is about current and former
members of Rochester’s African
American church congregations who are
gay. A segment of the documentary will
be screened at RCTV’s annual meeting,
At RCTV's March Media Mashup, attendees enjoyed
watching live performances as they were filmed
AWARD S A ND SP EC IA L
S CREEN IN G S
• Carvin Eison and Joshua Bloodworth received an
award from the Alliance for Community Media in
the professional category for their work in
producing “AfterEffects,” an HIV prevention PSA,
funded by the NYS Department of Health.
and the entire film will be shown at
OUTPUT in the spring.
Saby Reyes-Kulkarni, who gave the
Garage Band Workshop earlier this
year, is producing Double Blind
K E SSLE R BURN AND T RAUMA CE NT E R
During the process of shooting an emergency room training video for the Kessler
Burn and Trauma Center, part of the University of Rochester Medical Center,
RCTV staff went up in a helicopter to film the flight a trauma victim would
experience during an emergency transfer from another local hospital to the
Kessler Center.
• Carvin Eison was invited to screen July ’64 and
Shadows of the Lynching Tree at two different
events as part of the weeks-long exhibit and
community discussion about race, sponsored by
Rochester Museum & Science Center and
Rochester Area Community Foundation.
S PEC I A L E V E NT S
• Attendees at RCTV’s March Media Mashup had
a look “behind the scenes” as we filmed live
entertainment, and they also got a hands-on
JI MMI E HI GHSMI T H, JR. W I NS 2013 RCT V B AMA
experience in the sound room, the studio and
in front of the green screen.
• In April, RCTV presented OUTPUT, an annual
film festival at which we screened a wide variety
of genres created by local community producers
and staff.
• This year’s Black Music Month Celebration,
held in June, featured live and pre-recorded
performances as well as a short documentary
by Tina Chapman DaCosta called “Remembering
the Pythodd,” about one of Rochester’s
1950’s-1960’s jazz clubs.
Jimmy
Highsmith,
Jr. was
awarded
RCTV’s
2013 BAMA
“Community Awards like this
mean so much to me,” stated
Grammy-nominated and
Award-winning musician Jimmie
Highsmith when he was given
RCTV’s Third Annual Black
Achievement Music Award at
this year’s Black Music Month
Celebration. Jimmie was
awarded the BAMA plaque in
recognition of both his musical
excellence and his community
contributions.
IN DI V ID UAL MEMBERS
Christopher Lofton
David C. Rourk
Robert Lovett
Ali Sharif
Abdalla Abdalla
Carolyn Falligan
Stanley Main
Shakierah Smith
Yahya Abdullah
Ana Fermin
Robert Lorenzo Maldonado
Jim Strauss
Anthony Anderson
Navidad Fermin
Malik Manon
Ebony Sylvester
Tim Bates
Bill Flynn
Ronald Mathis
Fred Tanksley
Eugene Beaumont
Rev. Dr. Dwight Fowler
Mary McCloud
Gabriele Tanksley
Mike Boas
John Franklin
Michael McCourt
Iyanna Tanksley
Robert Brooks
Travon Golden
Brent Merritt
Curtis Taylor
Charles Burkes
Sam Green
Abdirashid Mohamud
Tiffiny Taylor
Gwendolyn Butts
Tina Greene
Peter Morgan
Malik Thompson
Will Butts
Jerry Hines
André Morrison
Mark Toker
Jaquetta Calhoun
James Hunter
Joyce Nakada
Paul Tracy
Will Cannon
Eddie Irby, Sr.
Terry Nasca
Pastor Clarence Turner
Martin Coker
Kenny Johnson
John Ornelas
Pastor Rosetta Coker
Levon Jones
Philomina Uzoamaka
Emeka-Iheukwu
Laura Colbert
Minister Lellean Jones
Wayne Coughlin
Sirena Jones
Samantha Cox
Laurie Kash
Paul Crowell
Max Kessler
Montrelle Curry
Donovan Knight
Adrienne Davis
Katie Kruetter
Judith Davis
Subhash Kulkarni
Alterique Day
Pacho Lane
Daniel Delehanty
Golden B. Lewis
Chris Edes
Joe Lewis, Jr.
Alfred English
Michael Litterio
Anna Kristina Pfeifer
Gerald Phipps
Gary Picariello
Brian Pomeroy
Reginald Prior
Paul Rapalee
Debra Rhoten
Hector Rosado
Linda Webb
Zachary Welch
Joseph C. Whitt
Lorenzo Williams
Pastor Wanda Wilson
James Wooden, Jr.
James Wooden, Sr.
OR G ANIZ A TI ONAL MEMBERS
Adams Street Church of God by Faith
Bethany Spiritual Church of God
Christ Temple Apostolic Faith Church
Church of God by Faith, Inc
Living Church of God
Open Arms Christian Fellowship Ministries
Cristo Es El Camino
M.K. Gandhi Institute
Rochester Movie Makers, Inc.
Emmanuel Church of Jesus
New Beginnings Apostolic Faith Church
Somali Community Outreach & Education
First Church of God
New Day Global Mission
True Saints Temple Apostolic Church
Get Involved In Your Community, Inc.
New Destiny Baptist Church
Word of the Kingdom Ministries
Education Partners
RO CHE ST E R IN S TITU TE OF
TECHN O LO G Y , C H A RLOTTE
H I G H SC HO O L A N D RC TV
Joshua Bloodworth led a collaborative
initiative this spring for RIT students, who
then mentored Charlotte High School students
and taught them skills related to making music
videos. This successful program has been
renewed again for the upcoming year.
SUMME R OF OPPORT UNI T Y
Through the City of Rochester and RochesterWorks, RCTV worked with 12
interns from the Summer of Opportunity Program. They incorporated the use of
Garage Band, Motion, and several animation programs into the works they
produced, including an interview with mayoral candidates Lovely Warren and Alex
White, with President of the Puerto Rican Festival Orlando Ortiz, and with former
NFL Football Player Roland Williams. Each youth produced a soundtrack and a
two-minute animation as part of the program, and the group took field trips to the
Buffalo Bills Camp, to the Space Observatory at RIT and to a showing of the
movie King’s Faith by local producer Nick DiBella.
YOUTH LEADERS AND ROCHESTER
C I TY SC HO O L DIS TRIC T –
BRI D GIN G T HE G A P
Rajesh Barnabas worked with the HEART
Coalition to create a 20 minute program
about youth leaders in the Rochester City
School District. The film is being shared with
RCSD administrators and City Recreation
staff and other youth-oriented organizations.
Summer of Opportunity Interns learned animation during their internship
RO C HE ST E R C ITY
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W RI T E RS & BOOK S SUM ME R CAMP
This year, the RCTV/ Writers & Books
On Tuesdays and
Media Camps were filled to capacity
Thursdays during the
with both new and returning participants.
school year, Shabaka
In addition to producing a program live
Collier worked with
for their parents, the students created
students from RCSD
shorts that will be submitted to the
School #58 to teach
KidLitFoundation’s 90-Second Newbery
media literacy and
Awards Film Festival, founded by author
production through an
James Kennedy. One of last year’s
after-school program
submissions, based on the book My
which RCTV oversaw.
Father’s Dragon, is listed among the
25 all-time favorite submissions to
Joshua Bloodworth teaches TV studio production to campers
the festival.
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21 Gorham Street
Rochester, NY 14605
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