| 2008 Annual EEO Public File Report
Lehigh
Valley Community Broadcasters Association, Inc.
Station: WDIY(FM-NCE)
Community
of License: Allentown, PA
Reporting Period: March 22, 2007 - March 21, 2008
No.
of Full-time Employees: 5 - 10
Small Market Exemption: No
During the Reporting
Period, three full time positions were filled. The information required by FCC
Rule 73.2080(c)(6) is provided in the charts that follow.
Initiatives:
Maintained
an internship program designed to assist members of the community to acquire skills
needed for broadcast employment. WDIY College Internship Program gives students
real career experience in broadcasting. All students receive college credit or
high school community service credit for their work, which averages about 80 hours
per semester in the Programming and Operations area of the station. We had two
interns from Kutztown University during this reporting period.
The Internship
and Youth Media Programs are training programs that have enabled WDIY personnel
to expand training opportunities for local youth. Participated in events or programs
sponsored by educational institutions relating to career opportunities in broadcasting.
Example: Lehigh Carbon Community College workshop: What is Indecency? Neil Hever,
Operations Director, conducted the session (Fall 2007). The Youth Media Program
teaches high school students about radio broadcasting.
Conducted EEO staff
training on March 11, 2008. Included dissemination of company policy and background
information provided by legal counsel. The session included the review of the
organizations' anti-discrimination policy and FCC mandates. Eight staff members
were present for the training conducted by the executive director.
Dennise
M. Kowalczyk - Executive Director - conducted presentations to the following organizations
about WDIY 88.1 FM opportunities:
Allentown Rotary Club (November 14, 2007),
Liberty Bell Rotary Club (November 28, 2007), Hi Neighbors Retirement Community
(November 2007) and Cedar Crest College (November 2007) and Bethlehem Rotary Club
(January 16, 2008)
Distributed employment opportunity information at the following
partnership events in the month of June.: PA Sinfonia, Magnetos Car Show, Circle
of Stones Children Theatre, Kutztown Folk Festival.
List of Positions Filled
Date
of hire: August 1, 2007; Job Title: Development Director
Recruitment Source
Referring Hiree: Friend
Recruiting Sources Used and Interviewee Referral
Source Summary
Total Number of Persons Interviewed: 4
1 Morning Call
Newspaper
1 Friend
2 Unknown Morning Call (Allentown daily), Express
Times (Easton daily), WDIY website, flyer distributed at events, emails, Association
of Fundraising Professionals, PUBRADIO Listserve, DEI Conference, on-air announcement,
Lehigh Valley Association of Independent Colleges and the CPB Jobline.
Referral
Source, Address, Contact Person, Phone/email
Morning Call Contact: Unknown
101
North 6th Street,
Allentown, PA 18102
610-820-6565 Express Times Contact:
Unknown
39 North 4th Street, Easton,
PA 18040
610-258-7171 On Line
CPB - http://www.cpb.org/jobline WDIY website Contact: Unknown
www.wdiy.org
301
Broadway
Bethlehem, PA 18015
(610) 694-8100 On Line - Association
of Fundraising Professionals - www.afpnet.org
On Line - Public Radio List Serve
- PUBRADIO@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
On Line - Development Exchange Inc. - www.deiworksite.org
Lehigh
Valley Association of Independent Colleges - www.lvaic.org - Contact: Tom Tenges
List
of Positions Filled
Date of hire: January 2, 2008 Job Title: Development Director
Recruitment
Source Referring Hiree: WDIY website Recruiting Sources Used and Interviewee
Referral Source Summary
Total Number of Persons Interviewed: 11
3 Morning
Call Newspaper
3 WDIY Website
1 Craig's List website
2 Friend
2 Unknown
Morning
Call (Allentown daily), Express Times (Easton daily), WDIY website, flyer distributed
at events, emails, Association of Fundraising Professionals, PUBRADIO Listserve,
DEI Conference, on-air announcement, Lehigh Valley Association of Independent
Colleges, CraigsList and the CPB Jobline.
Referral Source, Address, Contact
Person, Phone/email
Morning Call Contact: Unknown
101 North 6th Street,
Allentown,
PA 18102
610-820-6565 Express Times Contact: Unknown
39 North 4th
Street, Easton,
PA 18040
610-258-7171 On Line CPB - http://www.cpb.org/jobline
WDIY website Contact: Alison DelRe
www.wdiy.org
301 Broadway
Bethlehem,
PA 18015
(610) 694-8100 On Line - Association of Fundraising Professionals
- www.afpnet.org
On Line - Public Radio List Serve - PUBRADIO@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
On
Line - Development Exchange Inc. - www.deiworksite.org
Lehigh Valley Association
of Independent Colleges - www.lvaic.org - Contact: Tom Tenges
On Line - Craig's
List - www.craigslist.org
List of Positions Filled
Date of hire: February
19, 2008 Job Title: Business Development Manager
Recruitment Source Referring
Hiree: The Morning Call Newspaper Recruiting Sources Used and Interviewee
Referral Source Summary
Total Number of Persons Interviewed: 4 2 Morning
Call Newspaper
2 Unknown Morning Call (Allentown daily), WDIY website,
flyer distributed at events, emails, on-air announcement, Lehigh Valley Association
of Independent Colleges, and CraigsList
Referral Source, Address, Contact Person,
Phone/email
Morning Call Contact: Unknown
101 North 6th Street,
Allentown,
PA 18102
610-820-6565
WDIY website Contact: Alison DelRe
www.wdiy.org
301
Broadway
Bethlehem, PA 18015
(610) 694-8100
Lehigh Valley Association
of Independent Colleges - www.lvaic.org - Contact: Tom Tenges
Craig's List
- www.craigslist.org No source specifically requested that the station send
it notices about job openings.
2007 Annual EEO Public File Report
Lehigh
Valley Community Broadcasters Association, Inc.
Station: WDIY(FM-NCE)
Community
of License: Allentown, PA
Reporting Period: March 22, 2006 - March 21, 2007
No.
of Full-time Employees: 5 - 10
Small Market Exemption: No
During the Reporting
Period, one full time position was filled. The information required by FCC Rule
73.2080(c)(6) is provided in the charts that follow.
Initiatives:
Maintained
an internship program designed to assist members of the community to acquire skills
needed for broadcast employment. WDIY College Internship Program gives students
real career experience in broadcasting. All students receive college credit or
high school community service credit for their work, which averages about 80 hours
per semester in the Programming and Operations area of the station.
The Internship
and Youth Media Programs are training programs that have enabled WDIY personnel
to move on to higher level job positions at WDIY, WYPR Baltimore and Kutztown
University Radio. Participated in events or programs sponsored by educational
institutions relating to career opportunities in broadcasting.
Participated
in the Olympus Volunteer Fair (June 2007) which provided an opportunity for distribution
of information relating to both volunteer and employment opportunities for the
station.
Distributed employment opportunity information at the following partnership
events in the month of June.
List of Positions Filled
Date of hire: September
7, 2006; Job Title: Executive Director
Recruitment Source Referring Hiree:
WDIY website. Recruiting Sources Used and Interviewee Referral Source Summary
Total
Number of Persons Interviewed: 13 Morning Call (Allentown daily), El Torero
Newspaper, Express Times (Easton daily) Monster.com, WDIY website, NFCB Jobline,
Chronicle of Philanthropy, LaSalle University Non-Profit Center, Current, and
the CPB Jobline.
Referral Source, Address, Contact Person, Phone/email
Morning
Call (N)
101 North 6th Street,
Allentown, PA 18102
Marisa Ali 610-820-6565
marisa.ali@mcall.com Express
Times (N)
39 North 4th Street, Easton,
PA 18040
Nancy Ness 610-258-7171
nness@expresstimes.com El
Torero (N)
392 Allen Street
Allentown, PA 18103
Classifieds 610-435-6608
On
Line (N)
CPB
http://www.cpb.org/jobline WDIY website (N)
www.wdiyfm.org
301
Broadway
Bethlehem, PA 18015
Alison DelRe
alison@wdiy.org www.monster.com
National
Federation of Community Broadcasters - 1970 Broadway, Suite 1000, Oakland CA 94612
The
Chronicle of Philanthropy, 1255 23rd St. NW, Suite 700, Washington DC 20037
LaSalle
University, 1900 W. Olney Ave., Philadelphia PA 19141
Current, 6930 Carroll
Ave., Suite 350, Takoma Park MD 20912
Corporation for Public Broadcasting,
401 9th St. NW, Washington DC 20004 2006 Annual EEO Public
File Report
Lehigh Valley Community Broadcasters Association, Inc.
Station: WDIY(FM-NCE)
Community of License: Allentown, PA
Reporting Period:
March 22, 2005 – March 21, 2006
No. of Full-time Employees: 5 –
10
Small Market Exemption: No
During the Reporting Period, one full time
position was filled. The information required by FCC Rule 73.2080(c)(6) is provided
in the charts that follow.
Initiatives: The employment unit
engaged in the following broad outreach initiatives in accordance with various
elements of FCC Rule 73.2080(c)(2):
Participated in job fairs by station personnel
who have substantial responsibility in making hiring decisions. WDIY General Manager
and Development Director participated in the NABEF Career Fair at
the 2005
NAB Radio Conference on September 21, 2005 in Philadelphia.
Established an
internship program designed to assist members of the
community to acquire
skills needed for broadcast employment.
WDIY College Internship Program gives
students real career experience in broadcasting. All students receive college
credit or high school
community service credit for their work, which averages
about 80 hours per semester in the Programming and Operations area of the station.
Currently one student comes from Northampton Community College and one
from Liberty High School. Fall 2005 saw one student from Moravian College and
another from Northampton Community College. During Summer 2005, one came from
Mount Holyoke College. Additionally WDIY operates a Youth Media Program to train
high school youth in radio production and broadcasting. In 2006, fourteen students
participated in the program. Of the
fourteen, one is from Bethlehem Catholic,
three from Freedom High School, two from Liberty High School, and one each from
Gateway High School, Emmaus High School, Harrison Morton Middle School, Brandywine
Heights Middle School, Southern Lehigh High School, Dieruff High School, Parkland
High School and Lehigh Valley Charter High School for the Performing
Arts.
The students each spent an average 40 hours in the program, in the WDIY News Department,
producing news and public affairs features which were broadcast. Established training
programs designed to enable station personnel to acquire skills that could qualify
them for higher level positions. The Internship and Youth Media Programs are training
programs that have enabled WDIY personnel to move on to higher level job positions
at WDIY, WYPR Baltimore and Kutztown University Radio. Participated in events
or programs sponsored by educational institutions relating to career opportunities
in broadcasting.
DeSalles University-Career lecture cosponsored by Southside
Film Institute, March 2006 (Program Director); Northampton College-Digital editing
class presentation November 2005 (Program Director); Southside Film Institute-Technical
lecture and documentary guidance June 2005 (Program Director);
Lehigh University-Political
Science local reporting workshop, May 2005 (News Director).
Listed each
upper-level category opening in a job bank or newsletter of media trade groups
whose membership includes substantial participation of
women and minorities.
Listed Development Director position vacancy
announcement in the Corporation
for Public Broadcasting Job bank online at cpb.org. Provided training to management
level personnel on methods of ensuring equal employment opportunity and prevent
discrimination. General Manager attended Pennsylvania Association of Broadcasters
annual meeting May 23, 2005 and participated in a special meeting on EEO and 2006
license renewal.
______________________________
List of Positions Filled
Date of hire: August 5, 2005; Job Title: Development Director; Recruitment Source
Referring Hiree: WDIY website.
______________________________
Interviewee
Referral Source Summary
Total Number of Persons Interviewed in Preceding
Year: 6
Recruitment Sources Used in Preceding Year
Number of Persons interviewed
that the Source Referred:
Morning Call (Allentown daily) 3
Express Times
(Easton daily) 0
El Torero (LV Latino Newspaper) 0
CPB Jobline (online)
1
WDIY website 2
WDIY College and University contact email list 0
______________________________
Recruiting Sources Used
Job Title
of Position: Development Director Date of Hire: August 5, 2005
* Indicate
“Y” (yes) or “N” (no) if the organization requested that the
station provide it with notice of all job vacancies.
Referral Source,
Address, Contact Person, Phone/email
Morning Call (N)
101 North
6th Street,
Allentown, PA 18102
Marisa Ali 610-820-6565
marisa.ali@mcall.com
Express Times (N)
39 North 4th Street, Easton,
PA 18040
Nancy
Ness 610-258-7171
nness@expresstimes.com
El Torero (N)
392 Allen
Street
Allentown, PA 18103
Classifieds 610-435-6608
On Line
(N)
CPB
http://www.cpb.org/jobline
WDIY website (N)
www.wdiyfm.org
301 Broadway
Bethlehem, PA 18015
Alison DelRe
alison@wdiy.org
WDIY College and University email list (N)
Kutztown University, Ritta
Basu, rbasu@kutztown.edu
Lehigh University, Kim Plyler,kip2@lehigh.edu
Cedar Crest College, Michael Traupman, mstraupm@cedarcrest.edu
Lehigh Univeristy,Michelle
Mulcahey, inbwbiz@lehigh.edu
Northampton Community College, Heidi Butler,
hbutler@northampton.edu
Lehigh Carbon Community College, Maria Roberts, mroberts@lccc.edu |
