2018-08-07T11:01:43-05:00 2017-09-30 BDO USA LLP 201 S Orange Ave Suite 800 Orlando FL 32801 990 2016-10-01 596155012 COMMUNITY COMMUNICATIONS INC % SHERRY ALEXANDER COMM 4072732300 11510 EAST COLONIAL DRIVE ORLANDO FL 32817 LAFONTAINE OLIVER PRESIDENT & GM 2018-07-15 true Anne McHugh CPA P01066774 4078416930 2018-07-15 2016 2022-09-23 18:48:47Z WMFE LAFONTAINE OLIVER 11510 EAST COLONIAL DRIVE ORLANDO FL 32817 5291177 false X WWW.WMFE.ORG X 1961 FL PROVIDE CENTRAL FLORIDA'S LEADING PUBLIC BROADCASTING RADIO AND MEDIA CONTENT. 19 18 28 69 8710 -8947 3934406 3619523 0 0 108801 238483 30749 32779 4073956 3890785 0 0 0 0 1871996 1892663 0 0 485802 1981374 1972494 3853370 3865157 220586 25628 4723284 4902502 340665 383749 4382619 4518753 X WMFE ENLIGHTENS, EDUCATES, INSPIRES, ENTERTAINS AND REFLECTS THE COMMUNITY BY PRESENTING HIGH QUALITY CONTENT THAT EARNS THE INTEREST, INVOLVEMENT AND SUPPORT OF THE PEOPLE WE SERVE. false false 2630830 WMFEs Broader-Casting Strategic Plan continues to provide the framework for the stations service to the community through a focus on the four areas of Community Engagement, Digital Growth, Local Programming Development, and Growing our Philanthropic Strength. This plan continues to evolve and receive regular updates through input from our Board and Community Advisory Board members to ensure that community needs were being addressed. 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PART X, LINE 2: The Company is exempt from federal income taxes under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and from state income taxes under similar provisions of the Florida Statutes. The Company identifies and evaluates uncertain tax positions, if any, and recognizes the impact of uncertain tax positions for which there is a less than more-likely-than-not probability of the position being upheld when reviewed by the relevant taxing authority. Such positions are deemed to be unrecognized tax benefits and a corresponding liability is established on the statement of financial position. The Company has not recognized a liability for uncertain tax positions. If there were an unrecognized tax benefit, the Company would recognize interest accrued related to unrecognized tax benefits in interest expense and penalties in operating expenses. The Companys open tax years subject to examination by the Internal Revenue Service generally remain open for three years from the date of filing. PART XI, LINE 4B - OTHER ADJUSTMENTS: SPECIAL EVENT EXPENSES NETTED AGAINST REVENUE ON FORM 990: -25,241 PART XII, LINE 2D - OTHER ADJUSTMENTS: SPECIAL EVENT EXPENSES NETTED AGAINST REVENUE ON FORM 990: 25,241 SCIENCE FRIDAY 54775 24640 30135 10241 15000 0 54775 24640 30135 10241 15000 25241 4894 X X false true false false false false false false false LAFONTAINE OLIVER President & GM 138340 5000 0 5590 26989 175919 0 STEPHEN M STECK FORMER PRESIDENT/CEO 0 0 20000 0 0 20000 0 PART I, LINE 4B: STEPHEN M. STECK, A FORMER OFFICER AND TRUSTEE, RECEIVED A PAYMENT DURING 2016 FROM A DEFERRED COMPENSATION PLAN, WHICH IS SHOWN AS REPORTABLE COMPENSATION. X 495 73679 SALES PRICE false true true SCHEDULE M, LINE 32B: The organization uses a third party, Car Trust, Inc., to manage the sale of donated vehicles. FORM 990, PART III, LINE 4A, PROGRAM SERVICE ACCOMPLISHMENTS: long-form reporting, and our twice-a-week public affairs show. This includes our commitment to an in-dept series a quarter to give breadth and depth to issues facing our listeners. For the one-year mark since the Pulse nightclub shooting we created a one-hour special focused on the survivors and those in the LGBT community affected by the mass shooting. We also developed two podcast series: one in English and one in Spanish so we could reach the families, friends and those around the globe who wanted to know more but were limited by English-only coverage. In March we held a town hall at Orlando Health talking with first responders and survivors about their experience since the nightclub shooting. We also rolled out a week-long series looking at how black, male youths make up a large number of incarcerated juveniles. The series talked with black teens who found themselves caught up in the criminal justice system and what was being done to keep them from spending time behind bars and having a criminal record. Our coverage also took us to Puerto Rico where we talked with residents at the airport fleeing the island after Hurricane Maria. Our public affairs show Intersection takes calls from listeners for the first segment of the Friday broadcast. These calls come from both sides of the issues and often from more than one of the six counties in our primary coverage area. In this show we have talked with new arrivals and those who are helping them relocate to central Florida in our talk show. We have also dedicated a webpage on our website collecting all of our coverage and NPRs reporting to serve as a resource for those wanting to know more about relocation and whats happening in Puerto Rico. We also launched wmfeindepth.org a webpage giving us a place to build out our reporting on a multi-media platform. WMFE reporters continue to gain new Twitter followers, using it as a reporting tool while covering stories out in the field. The Intersection team uses Facebook Live to promote the show and they elicit questions from listeners. WMFE continues its commitment to partner with other public radio stations in the state. We partnered with public radio station WLRN in Miami on the series: "River of Grass Dying of Thirst." This five-part series and web build out looked at the environmental, social and political forces shaping the Florida Everglades. 90.7 WMFEs partnership with the other public radio stations in the state was showcased and provided essential emergency alert and preparedness information across the state during Hurricane Irma. All of Floridas public radio stations came together to help report on Hurricane Irma, which scraped along most of the state in September 2017. We not only utilized the Florida Public Radio Networks meteorologist, but we also collected sound and live reports from reporters across the state. We also utilized our partnership with Comcast cable network News 13. WMFE was on-air with regular and then around-the-clock reports from Sunday September 10th through Monday September 11th with in-depth coverage continuing through the week. We continue our participation in filing and airing stories with Health News Florida. WMFE has also strengthened its ties to the University of Central Florida by participating in its internship fairs twice during the academic year. The university is a major pipeline for our rebooted internship program. We are now accepting three interns per semester, most of them coming from UCF. Several of those interns are from minority communities. Members of the newsroom also made many appearances in the community to connect with a diverse group of local institutions and nonprofits. They talked with high school students about space, spoke with Valencia College students about podcasting, moderated at a UNITY business mixer, discussed ethics and the media at an event presented by the Holocaust Memorial Center, participated in a roundtable for the Florida Political Science Association, moderated a panel on immigration for the Orange County League of Women Voters, and talked with public relation managers working in the human organ procurement industry. 90.7 WMFE continues to support the work of dozens of community nonprofits in our region through our on-air and online community calendar. The free service continues to grow as a resource for organizations looking to get the word out to the community. The stations community engagement efforts in FY 2017 designed to both promote community events and to participate in and partner with eight community organizations through events and festivals has had a strong impact on visibility of both the station and the organizations in the community. Events such as the Asian Cultural Festival in Orlando and the Zora Neal Hurston Festival in Eatonville allowed the station to engage with and support diverse communities in a meaningful way. Sometimes the impact was simply making communities aware that we existed and had valuable programming to offer. Our quarterly Speaker Series extended our educational outreach by exposing hundreds of attendees to topics such as: how to survive on Mars, reflecting on the Pulse shooting, and aging gracefully. Through these community conversations the audience was able to connect with members of the space industry. Members of the LGBT community discussed the impact of the Pulse shooting on their faith. Floridas older residents were given an opportunity to discuss issues around aging. Members of the arts community tell us their appearance on our Spotlight segment help boost attendance for their events. Our public affairs program Intersection receives a steady stream of callers during the Friday. The pair of podcasts on the Pulse nightclub shooting has garnered 59,817 downloads. And our podcast looking at Mars has more than a million downloads. Calls continue to reach out and have conversations with our talk show host and guests during the live segment, along with listeners sending us a growing stream of questions through Twitter and Facebook. Our continued focus on space, education, and the environment are collecting praise from key players in those communities. The stations diversity and inclusion efforts remained strong in FY17 through both our programming and the participation in community events that specifically targeted minority and diverse communities. Media sponsorships and engagements including the Zora Outdoor Festival of the Arts presented by the Association to Preserve the Eatonville Community, the Asian American Cultural Festival, the Caribbean American Heritage Festival and the Asian American Heritage Councils Annual Student Achievers Awards are examples of WMFEs commitment to serving diverse audiences. The Asian American Chamber of Commerce of Central Florida awarded WMFE their prestigious 2016 Golden Dragon Award acknowledging WMFE for its outstanding service, leadership and commitment to the community. Intersection, WMFEs weekly news and conversation program continues to regularly explore issues of concern to diverse communities as well as arts and cultural affairs in Central Florida. WMFEs weekly broadcast of Latino USA provides news and cultural programming from a Latino perspective. WMFE also continues to reach out to diverse communities through staffing and board recruitment that seeks to reflect our community. The stations newsroom regularly host interns from local colleges and universities attracting diverse students seeking to gain experience in journalism. The station staff also participates year round in hosting, moderating and speaking engagements aimed at a variety of community organizations covering arts and culture, science, education, journalism, health care, religion, and more. In FY 2017 90.7 WMFE partnered with Story Corps to archive the stories of those affected by the Pulse tragedy in both English and Spanish along with other Spanish language programming during the recognition of the Pulse anniversary. The station will also continue to explore the feasibility of a new program feed aimed specifically at Central Floridas growing Hispanic community. CPB funding has been vital to helping the station ramp up its local news coverage. 90.7 WMFE now has an eight person newsroom thanks in part to the funding provided by CPB. With so much audience fragmentation and increased competition from nontraditional broadcast outlets, 90.7 WMFE would not be able to make the necessary investment in local content production without funding from CPB. CPB funding also makes it possible for the station to purchase some national programming that our audience would greatly miss if we were unable to provide it in this market. FORM 990, PART VI, SECTION B, LINE 11: THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES REVIEWS THE 990 DRAFT FOR REASONABLENESS PRIOR TO RELEASE OF THE FINAL ISSUANCE. FORM 990, PART VI, SECTION B, LINE 12C: THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES AND OFFICERS SIGN THEIR ACCEPTANCE OF THE CONFLICT OF INTEREST POLICY ON AN ANNUAL BASIS. THE CORPORATE SECRETARY AND BOARD OF TRUSTEES REVIEW THE CONFLICT OF INTEREST POLICIES ANNUALLY. FORM 990, PART VI, SECTION B, LINE 15: THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES ANNUALLY REVIEW THE PERFORMANCE OF THE CEO AND OFFICERS AND SETS THEIR PAY. MARKET SURVEYS HELP DETERMINE REASONABLE COMPENSATION FOR ALL EMPLOYEES. A PAY POOL FOR ALL EMPLOYEES EXCEPT OFFICERS IS ESTABLISHED AND APPROVED BY THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES PRIOR TO THE BUDGET. ALL EMPLOYEES COMPENSATION IS APPROVED BY THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES AS A PART OF THE BUDGET APPROVAL ANNUALLY. THE CORPORATION'S AUDITORS ALSO CONDUCT AND ISSUE AN OPINION ANNUALLY AS TO ANY EXCESS BENEFIT TRANSACTIONS OF ANY OFFICERS OR KEY EMPLOYEES. FORM 990, PART VI, SECTION C, LINE 19: GOVERNING DOCUMENTS, CONFLICT OF INTEREST POLICY, AND FINANCIAL STATEMENTS ARE AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST.