Alabama Education Television Foundation Authority

Education Services:1. Alabama Public Television (APT) facilitates student learning in a variety of ways. In FY 2022, more than 863 parents, teachers and administrators serving more than 127,600 children attended APT K-12 workshops, conferences, and trainings, many of which were offered virtually. 2. Early Childhood Learning--AETFA, through its employed team of trainers and those of partner organizations previously trained by AETFA staff, conducted workshops for educators and parents of children ages birth to eight throughout the state of Alabama. The workshops demonstrated ways to incorporate PBS children's programming, broadcast by APT or available for streaming on the APT website, into comprehensive learning experiences that also included reading and other activities related to the content. APT and our partners led 368 "face-to face" trainings for 3,551 participants, impacting an estimated 38,163 children in FY 2022. In addition, in FY 2022 participation in the regularly offered early childhood online courses continued to grow at a rapid rate. A total of 225 childcare providers enrolled in online facilitated professional development courses, impacting an estimated 5,996 children. Participation in APT's on-demand courses more than doubled that of the previous year, with a total of 3,925 providers enrolled, impacting an additional 102,762 children. More than 26,500 books were distributed free of charge as part of various ECE trainings in 2022.3. Family and Community Engagement for Early Childhood In 2022 APT hosted several virtual and in-person family and community engagement events across Alabama. This includes, but not limited, Be My Neighbor Day (BMND), Ready to Learn events, and APT PBS KIDS Edcamps. We had over 3,000 participants for our special events this year. Almost 1,500 of those in attendance were children ages 2-8. We also had over 200 parents and educators attend our virtual and in-person APT PBS KIDS Edcamps. Those participants indirectly serve more than 1,900 children ages 0-8.

Production:1. AETFA assists with the funding needs of APT to produce television programs on a local level. Such programs include Capitol Journal, Spotlight on Education, Subcarrier, Monograph and documentary specials including Shuttlesworth. 2. APT and WLRH-FM continue to receive awards for locally produced television and radio programming along with educational content produced for the web. Through 2022, the programming and production efforts have received a combined 37 Southeastern Regional Emmy Awards, 107 Telly Awards, 2 National Cine Awards, 3 Edward R Murrow Awards, 26 Alabama Broadcasters Association Awards, 16 National Educational Telecommunication Association Awards, and 1 National Association of Broadcasters' Service to America's Children Award.

Programming and Broadcast Delivery:1. APT leases the majority of its content for television from the Public Broadcast System (PBS) and is a member affiliate of this distributor. APT also leases a smaller amount of its content needs from various other distributors. The AETFA assists directly with purchasing a portion of these costs which exceeded $3.2 million in fiscal 2022. 2. APT leases the majority of its content for its FM-public radio station (WLRH) located in Huntsville from National Public Radio (NPR) and several other distributors. The AETFA assists directly with purchasing a portion of these costs which approached $313,000 in fiscal 2022.3. The engineering, utility, technical and equipment costs of broadcasting television signals over the entire state on a 24 hour-7 day basis well exceeded $2.4 million in fiscal 2022 including that of WLRH-FM. The AETFA assists with paying for these expenses by purchasing needed equipment and paying vendor invoices directly when the state appropriation has been exhausted for the year.4. APT's association and membership in nationally recognized content distributors such as PBS and NPR provide viewers and listeners in the state with quality, commercial free television and radio that they depend on as a trusted source for educational content value and entertainment integrity.