Together We are South Dakota. Thank you friends and Supporters of SDPB.

In 2018, your support helped provide more fact-based news, high-quality entertainment, and trusted educational content to even more South Dakotans.

SDPB Sioux Falls Studios As South Dakota’s only state-wide multimedia organization, we’re committed to gathering and sharing South Dakota’s stories.

With your support in 2018, we opened the Sioux Falls Studios at 601 N. Phillips Avenue in downtown Sioux Falls. From this content production center and community space in the heart of SD’s largest city, SDPB broadcasts and streams In the Moment with Lori Walsh, our daily, 2-hour news and interview program, as well as Jazz Nightly with Karl Gehrke, the region’s only jazz radio program. SDPB content producers headquarter out of the Sioux Falls Studios for increased access to newsmakers and to reach deeper into the state to report even more local news.

The Sioux Falls Studios also serve as a venue for public screenings and community conversations, like Making a Living, SDPB’s business and economic issues program.

Already this year, the studios hosted public screenings and events, such as Ohiyesa: The Soul of an Indian, Masterpiece: Little Women, and webcasts of live performances of Rock Garden Tour.

Black Hills Studio Together, we continued to expand content production and programming West River at the SDPB Black Hills Studio in downtown Rapid City. Programs like Where Do We Go from Here, a discussion series exploring community solutions, and the NativePOP film festival, took place at the Black Hills Studio.

Improved Our Sound SDPB supporters helped create three “boutique” studios with high quality audio to interview more South Dakotans throughout the state. The satellite studios include the SDPB Jeanine Basinger Studio at SDSU – supported by a gift from Barb & Van Fishback; the SDPB studio supported by the Tom & Danielle Aman Foundation at Northern State University; and the SDPB Studio supported by Sue W. White at Black Hills State University.

Covered National, State & Local Government SDPB was live at the state capitol to broadcast, stream and synthesize the news, generated at sessions of the House and Senate, and during meetings of boards and commissions – all of which comprise elective government. This comprehensive coverage includes frequent conversations on In the Moment and discussions on South Dakota Focus.

Explored Dakota Life Together, we travelled the state by way of Dakota Life, SDPB’s TV magazine program. For 20 seasons, Dakota Life has presented the people and places that make South Dakota unique.

Savored Dakota Together, we showcased South Dakota’s food growers and makers at schools, restaurants, farms and venues on both sides of the Missouri via Savor Dakota, SDPB’s locavore guide to South Dakota cuisine and products.

Made SD History Your support sustained SDPB’s multiplatform series Images of the Past – bringing to light more photos and documents from South Dakota’s history with blogs, interviews and the documentary series Settlement Stories.

Together, we launched Vanished South Dakota: Towns of Yesterday, stories of the rise and fall of once-thriving South Dakota communities.

Made Beautiful SD Music Together You helped SDPB put South Dakota musicians on-the-air and in the spotlight, with dozens of live performances from artists like Eliza Blue, JAS Quintet, Fiddles & Friends, NPR Tiny Desk Contest Favorite Mato Wayuhi, the South Dakota Symphony Young Composers Concert, and “Summer with the Symphony,” SDPB Radio’s interview and performance series.

Highlighted High School Achievements Together, we covered South Dakota high school stars at choral concerts, basketball tournaments, one-act plays, and dozens of extracurricular championships throughout the school year and all over the state. You helped us feature kids and coaches on-and-off the field with Tales of the Gridiron.

Expanded Science & Education Donors like you helped SDPB’s Education Specialist Steven “Science Steve” Rokusek demonstrate science to kids and educators throughout South Dakota, as well as create PreK-4 Native American Studies videos and curriculum with the WoLakota Project. And at events all over the state, SDPB taught kids the science and mechanics that go into making simple machines, like levers, pulleys and catapults.

Celebrated South Dakota’s Favorite Books & Stories Together, we honored the significance of sharing our stories. We sponsored a SRO storytelling night with The Moth in Sioux Falls, collected South Dakotans’ favorite books through The Great American Read, and celebrated South Dakota books and authors in interviews on In the Moment and at the South Dakota Festival of Books, documentaries This Place, These Words: South Dakota Books, and South Dakota Authors and Their Hometowns.

Together, we created quality programming about South Dakotans, for South Dakotans and the world.

Together we are South Dakota Public Broadcasting, because together we are South Dakota.

Thank you for your support.