Nebraska
Owned and operated by Omaha Public Schools (OPS), KIOS-FM’s facilities are used as a radio broadcasting lab for high school students at the OPS Career Center. Their work can be heard several times a week in programs designed and produced by the students.
In 2011, NET produced dozens of documentaries, news programs, and Signature Stories including: Standing Bear’s Footsteps, Rosenblatt: The Final Inning, Nebraska Philanthropy, Nebraska Stories, Quest: Nebraska, Gang Fight Nebraska, Stratcom 9/11: A Difference Doomsday, Home Fields: Digging into Local Foods, Illegal Immigration, and Nebraska’s Budget.
NET provides gavel-to-gavel live coverage on NET2 World and live streaming from 11 state government venues, including the main legislative chamber, seven committee hearing rooms, the Nebraska Supreme Court, the Nebraska Appellate Court, and the governor’s hearing room. More than 42,000 streaming requests were made, totaling more than 1.8 million minutes.
Signature Stories, the cornerstone of NET’s cross-platform journalism production model, are five- to six-minute in-depth reports on topics covering arts and humanities, history, economics, politics, and other subjects with an extensive Web build-out of extras such as video, audio, graphics and photos. Signature Stories are aired three times throughout the day on NET Radio during Morning Edition and All Things Considered.