EEO

EMPLOYMENT
FCC PUBLIC FILE REPORT
2025
STATIONS KLOH — Pipestone, KISD — Pipestone, and KJOE– Slayton, MN
REPORTING PERIOD:
December 1, 2024 to November 30, 2025
FULL-TIME POSITIONS FILLED DURING LAST YEAR:
1. One________________________________________
PART-TIME POSITIONS FILLED DURING LAST YEAR:
2. Six________________________________________
Part-time position-filled: 2-Part time Announcers
Christensen Broadcasting
EEO Exhibit
OUTREACH ACTIVITIES: December 1, 2024 to November 30, 2025
1. Internship Program Available: provides high school or college students
with training by station staff and management. Training includes
announcing and production.
2. On the Job Training: provides staff meetings for current employees
designed to give them additional skills. Refresher courses in efficient voice
tracking, producing creative impressions, role playing sales presentations
and the use of new technology and equipment in broadcasting are held
either for all staff or sometimes on a one-on-one basis. We also provided
access to teaching webinars
3. Mentoring/Shadowing Program Available: in cooperation with the high
school, provides high school students a close up working relationship with
staff members, giving them information about and encouraging them to
consider a career in broadcasting. We have elementary, middle school, and
high school students do weekly on-air work in conjunction with
announcing school news, 4-H activities and other student related
activities. We participate in the Shadow program where any student from
any school interested in careers in broadcasting are invited to participate
on the air, shadowing our announcers. One salesperson is mentoring an
individual this year.
4. Internet Program: positions will be posted on our Internet web site, the
Minnesota Broadcasters Association Job bank website, the EEO 1 website,
and careerpage.org if they become available.
5. On air announcements: letting people or organizations know how to
contact us in the event they want to be notified of any job openings we
might have during the year. We also have contact information on our
website.
6. Station Tours: given to interested civic and school groups where on air
personalities and management inform about their jobs and broadcasting
careers. Local 4-H groups have toured our facility and did some
announcing during National 4-H week. Our general manager gave a
presentation to the students of CEO of Southwest Minnesota an
Entrepreneurship education group with an emphasis on radio, radio
advertising and marketing.
7. At Minnesota West Technical College in Pipestone, our announcers are
available to speak to students about various careers in broadcasting. Our
personnel have given presentations on radio broadcasting to civic leaders
and service organizations like the Kiwanis.
8. CEO Program: Students from local school districts, participating in a
wonderful program where they are taught how to communicate and
become professional business leaders, came to the radio station so we
could present to them how to communicate and advertise for their
business and reasons why it would benefit them and their business to the
fullest. We also explained what we do and the reasons and steps we have
taken to get where we are in our own business.
9. Sports Live streaming: Local high school students learned about
broadcasting and being able to video the sports games for the public that
aren’t able to make it to the games. They also learned to Update the
advertising impressions to video impressions.