EEO PUBLIC FILE -AUGUST 1, 2013 THROUGH JULY 31, WMMY/WZJS/WECR(FM)/WECR(AM)/WATA/WXIT Boone, North Carolina

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1 EEO PUBLIC FILE -AUGUST 1, 2013 THROUGH JULY 31, WMMY/WZJS/WECR(FM)/WECR(AM)/WATA/WXIT Boone, North Carolina This unit is part of the Curtis Media Group. Curtis Media Group is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all individuals without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age or disability. Our intent is to provide a work environment that is free of discrimination, harassment or intimidation. Discrimination, harassment or intimidation of an employee or an applicant is considered improper conduct. Under no circumstances will Curtis Media Group condone or tolerate any form of discrimination, harassment or intimidation of anyone in the Curtis Media Group family of companies. This EEO Public File Report is filed in station WMMY/WZJS/WECR(FM)/WECR(AM)/WATA/WXIT public inspection file pursuant to Section of the Federal Communication Commission s ( FCC ) rules. During the period August 1, July 31, 2014, the stations filled the following full-time vacancies: OFFICE MANAGER (1) ACCOUNT EXECUTIVES (5) The station interviewed a total of 9 people for all full-time vacancies during the period covered in this report. The following are the recruitment sources used during the period covered in this report and the cumulative number of interviewees referred by each:

2 The following are the recruitment sources used during the period covered in this report and the cumulative number of interviewees referred by each: RECRUITMENT SOURCE ALAMANCE COMMUNITY COLLEGE APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY BENNETT COLLEGE BROADCAST CENTER BROADCASTING INSTITUTE OF MARYLAND 1247 Jimmie Kerr Road Graham, NC Career Development 301 Administration Annex PO Box Boone NC E. Washington Street Greensboro, NC Hampton Avenue Saint Louis, MO Jim Bland, Placement Director 7200 Harford Road Baltimore MD

3 CAMPBELL UNIVERSITY CAPE FEAR COMMUNITY COLLEGE CAROLINA SCHOOL OF BROADCASTING CENTRAL CAROLINA COMMUNITY COLLEGE DURHAM TECHNICAL COLLEGE EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY PO Box 4260 Buies Creek, NC Career Connection 411 N Front Street Wilmington NC qyork@cfcc.edu Alyson Young, Exec VP 3435 Performance Road Charlotte, NC csbnc@bellsouth.net Career Services 1105 Kelly Drive Sanford, NC grdelv63@cccc.edu PO Drawer Durham NC jobboard@durhamtech.edu Career Services East Fifth Street Greenville, NC career@mail.ecu.edu

4 EDGECOMBE COMMUNITY COLLEGE ELIZABETH CITY STATE UNIVERSITY ELON UNIVERSITY EMPLOYMENT SECURITY COMMISSION* FAYETTEVILLE STATE UNIVERSITY FORSYTH TECHNICAL COLLEGE Career Development 2009 W. Wilson Street Tarboro, NC Weeksville Road Elizabeth City, NC Campus Box Elon, NC S. Mebane Street Burlington, NC Career Services 1200 Murchison Road Fayetteville, NC Silas Creek Parkway Winston-Salem, NC Darlene Jarette

5 GASTON COLLEGE GOLDSBORO HIGH SCHOOL GREENSBORO COLLEGE HIGH POINT COLLEGE HOWARD UNIVERSTIY ISOTHERMAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE 201 Highway 321 South Dallas, NC Louise Davis School Counselor P.O. Box 1757 Goldsboro, NC West Market Street Greensboro, NC Nicka Thornton Dir. Of Career Services 833 Montlieu Avenue High Point, NC Joan Browne, Assoc. Director 2400 Sixth Street, NW Washington, DC P.O. Box 804 Spindale, NC

6 JOHNSON C. SMITH UNIVERSITY DIRECTOR OF PLACEMENT JOHNSTON COMMUNITY COLLEGE LENOIR COMMUNITY COLLEGE LENOIR-RHYNE COLLEGE LOUISBURG COLLEGE MARSHALL UNIVERSITY 100 Beatties Ford Road Charlotte, NC Barbara Wilkes Placement Office P.O. Box 2350 Smithfield, NC P.O. Box 188, 231 HWY 58 South Kinston, NC th Avenue Hickory, NC nicholsr@lrc.edu 501 North Main Street Louisburg, North Carolina Sharon Moore, Manager rgill@louisburg.edu 1 John Marshall Drive Huntington, West Virginia Patricia Gallagher, Recruiting Coordinator career-services@marshall.edu

7 MEREDITH COLLEGE METHODIST COLLEGE METROPOLITAN BAPTIST CHURCH NASH COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE NORTH CAROLINA A&T UNIVERSITY NC CENTRAL UNIVERSITY 3800 Hillsborough Street Raleigh, NC Marie Sumerel, Career Center Director 5400 Ramsey Street Fayetteville, North Carolina /7279 Marisa Saenz, Director of Career Services 1213 Leggett Road Rocky Mount, NC P.O. Box 7488 Rocky Mount, NC Georgia Roberon, Job Placement Officer Career Services 1601 E. Market Street Greensboro, NC Fayetteville and Lawson Street Durham, NC

8 NC STATE UNIVERSITY CAREER CENTER NC STATE MEDIA ADVISING NC WESLEYAN COLLEGE PEACE COLLEGE PIEDMONT TECHNICAL COLLEGE Joan Busko, or Director 2100 Pullen Hall Raleigh, NC Witherspoon CB8607 Raleigh, NC Career Services 3400 N. Wesleyan Blvd. Rocky Mount, NC East Peace Street Raleigh, NC Barbara Efird Placement Coordinator P.O. Box 1197 Roxboro, NC PITT COMMUNITY COLLEGE P.O. Drawer 7007 Greenville, NC AJ Tyson, Director of Joblink

9 SAINT AUGUSTINE COLLEGE 1315 Oakwood Avenue Raleigh, NC SALEM COLLEGE [YES] P.O. Box Winston-Salem, NC SCHOOL OF COMMUNICATION ARTS SEYMOUR JOHNSON FAMILY SUPPORT SHAW UNIVERSITY ST ANDREWS PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE UNC ASHEVILLE Andrea R. Hall, Director of Career Services 3000 Wakefield Crossings Drive Raleigh, NC Lynn McGee, Director of Professional Services 1255 Andrews Street, Bldg SJAFB, NC Career Development 118 E. South Street Raleigh, NC Career Services 1700 Dogwood Mile Laurinburg, NC DIRECTOR OF PLACEMENT One University Heights Asheville, NC

10 UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL UNC CHAPEL HILL JOURNALISM AND MASS COMMUNICATION UNC CHARLOTTE Career Services Campus Box 5140 Chapel Hill, NC Howell Hall, CB 3365 Chapel Hill, NC Career Center 9201 University City Blvd. Charlotte, NC UNC GREENSBORO P.O. Box Greensboro, NC Donna Seckar Director of Career Services UNC PEMBROKE UNC WILMINGTON Career Services P.O. Box 1510 Pembroke, NC Career Services 601 College Road Wilmington, NC

11 VANCE-GRANVILLE COMMUNITY COLLEGE WAKE TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE WAYNE COMMUNITY COLLEGE WESTERN CAROLINA UNIVERSITY WILSON COUNTY TECHNICAL COLLEGE WINSTON-SALEM STATE UNIVERSITY Career Center P.O. Box 917 Henderson, NC Barbara Smith, Career Center Coord Fayetteville Road Raleigh, NC Anne Millington, Director of Job Placement and Referrals 300 Wayne Memorial Drive Goldsboro, NC HFR Administration Building Cullowhee, NC Placement Office P.O. Box 4305 Woodard Station Wilson, NC Martin Luther King Jr. Drive Winston-Salem, NC

12 AMA JOB BANK HISPANIC LINK NEWS SERVICE, Inc. NAB EMPLOYMENT CLEARINGHOUSE c/o Ericsson GE Mobile Comm Director of Job Placement P.O. Box Research-Triangle Park, NC N. Street NW Washington, DC North Street NW Washington, DC NATIVE AMERICAN PBC P.O. Box Lincoln, NE ORGANIZATION OF CHINESE AMERICANS 1001 Conn. Avenue NW St. Washington, DC Vana Tran, Director of Prog. THE HOT SHEET P.O. Box 1476 Palm Havor, FL THE LINKS, INC. BROOKS, PIERCE, McLENDON HUMPHREY & LEONARD NATIONAL HISPANIC MEDIA ORGANIZATION 1200 Massachusetts Avenue NW Washington, DC First Union Capital Center 150 Fayetteville Street Mall Raleigh, NC South Grand Avenue Los Angeles, CA

13 EMPLOYMENT SECURITY COMMISSION DURHAM HUMAN RELATIONS COMMISSION EMPLOYMENT SECURITY COMMISSION NAACP 309 N. William Street Goldsboro, NC William Pate, Manager 101 City Hall Plaza Durham, NC Job Placement Office 700 Wade Avenue Raleigh, NC Reverend Elbert Lee, President 1121 Sandon Circle Rocky Mount, NC NCAB JOB BANK P.O. Box 627 Raleigh, NC OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR Mail Service Center Raleigh, NC WOMEN S CENTER OF RALEIGH 128 East Hargett Street 10 Raleigh, NC Denise Rhodes, Employment Counselor GOLDSBORO WAYNE NAACP PO Drawer 1205 Goldsboro, NC

14 RED BUD HOLY CHURCH SOUTH CENTRAL WAKE NAACP AMA JOB BANK EMMA L. BOWEN FOUNDATION TRIANGLEHELPWANTED.COM TRIADCAREERS.COM REGIONALHELPWANTED.COM ALLACCESS.COM RADIO AND RECORDS BURLINGTON TIMES-NEWS JOB FAIRS 1108 Luper Street Rocky Mount, NC Kingsberry Court Raleigh, NC P.O. Box RTP, NC West 57 th Street New York, NY / Sandra Rice, VP of Eastern Division phylis.eagle-oldson@corporate.ge.com South Main Street Burlington, NC Tel (336) Fax (336) Listed in Outreach Activities

15 REFERRALS EXISTING EMPLOYEES INTERNAL JOB POSTINGS GOLDSBORO NEWS ARGUS UNSOLICITED APPLICATIONS RADIO ADS (ON CMG-EAST STATIONS) Variety of Sources, Including Various Colleagues Various Various Curtis Media Group Locations 310 N. Berkeley Blvd. P.O. Box Goldsboro, N.C Tel (919) Fax (919) Various Various Curtis Media Group Stations

16 CMG WEBSITES SOCIETY OF BROADCASTING ENGINEERS JACOB S MEDIA CRAIGSLIST

17 GREER STAFFING GROUP THE FRANKLIN TIMES THE WAKE WEEKLY LINKEDIN INSIDE RADIO 3109 Charles B. Root Wynd Raleigh, NC Phone: South Bickett Blvd. Louisburg, NC Owen Avenue Wake Forest, NC

18 Exhibit A contains the following information for each full time vacancy: The recruitment source(s) used to fill each vacancy, identified by name, address, contact person, and telephone number; The recruitment source that referred the hiree for each full-time vacancy; The total number of persons interviewed for each full time vacancy; and The total number of interviewees referred by each recruitment source used in connection with each vacancy. Exhibit B contains a list and brief description of outreach initiatives undertaken pursuant to the FCC s EEO rules during the time period covered by this report.

19 EXHIBIT A EEO INFORMATION FOR FULL-TIME VACANCIES For WMMY/WZJS/WECR(FM)/WECR(AM)/WATA/WXIT Boone, North Carolina

20 The total number of interviewees for each vacancy and the referral source for each interviewee for all full-time vacancies filled during the applicable period are as follows: POSITION FILLED DATE FILLED NO. OF INTERVEWEES Office Manager 08/12/ Referral (1) Account Executive(s) Account Executive(s) 01/20/ /17/ /31/ /16/ /16/2013 REFERRAL SOURCES FOR INTERVIEWEES 6 The Tomahawk Paper (1) GBR Website (3) Watauga Democrat (1) Referral (1) 2 Re-hire (1) Referral (1) FULL-TIME VACANCY INFORMATION

21 Job Title of Vacancy: Office Manager (Boone) Recruitment Source That Referred The Hiree: Referral Date Vacancy Opened 08/06/2013 Total Number of Persons Interviewed for the Vacancy: 1 Date Vacancy Filled: 08/12/2013 See Sources Listed at the Beginning of This Report FULL-TIME VACANCY INFORMATION Job Title of Vacancy: Account Executive(s) (Boone) Recruitment Source That Referred The Hiree: Tomahawk & GBR Website _

22 Date Vacancy Opened: 11/15/2013 Interviewed for the Vacancy: 6 Date Vacancy Filled: 01/20/2014, 02/17/2014, 03/31/2014 See Sources Listed at the Beginning of This Report FULL-TIME VACANCY INFORMATION Job Title of Vacancy: Account Executive(s) (Boone) Recruitment Source That Referred The Hiree: Re-hire/Referral

23 Date Vacancy Opened open Total Number of Persons Interviewed for the Vacancy: 2 Date Vacancy Filled: 10/16/2013 See Sources Listed at the Beginning of This Report

24 EXHIBIT B OUTREACH INITIATIVES

25 Outreach Activities for the Period August 1, July 31, 2014 Stations WMMY/WZJS/WECR(FM)/WECR(AM)/WATA/WXIT has engaged in the following outreach initiatives during the year covered by this report: Initiative Classification Type of Initiative Brief Description 1 Job Fairs On 11/07/2013, Chris Atwell (Recruiter) attended the Career Networking Fair at the Living Arts College. On 03/11/2014, Chris Atwell (Recruiter), Christy Pruden (Director of HR), and Sydney Little (Alumni & Graphics Designer ) attended the Spring Job & Internship Expo at Elon University. On 05/16/2014, Julie Garza (WYMY PD), Hector Valencia (WYMY Promotions), and Christy Pruden (Director of HR) attended the NC Chamber of Commerce Bilingual Job Fair. 4 Events in the Community Christy Pruden (Director of Human Resources) volunteered at the Salvation Army Christmas Distribution - December 17, NC Children s Promise Radio/Telethon at the UNC Children s Hospital November 2012 Phil Zachary (President) is involved in the following: Board of Visitors for the NC Children s Hospital; Board of Directors for the Greater Raleigh Chamber of Commerce; Wake County Convention and Visitors Board; The 200 Club of Wake County; Triangle Flight of Honor; Rise-Up Raleigh; Appalachian State University Communication Department Advisory Board; High Point University, Nido Qubein School of Communication Advisory Board; Radio Advertising Bureau Board of Directors; N.C. State University Student Media Advisory Board; Elon University Parent s Council. *Note: Phil Zachary resigned in October of 2013.

26 Mike Hartel (GM/VP) is on the Greater Raleigh Chamber of Commerce Membership Services Board; Board Member of the Leadership Raleigh Alumni Association of the Greater Raleigh Chamber of Commerce; Board Member of N.C. State Student Media; Board Member of Divine Mercy (Catholic Radio); Marketing Committee for the Triangle Family Services. * Mike Hartel resigned January 31, The Raleigh Chamber of Commerce 2013 Business Expo on May 1, On November 11, 2013, Chris Atwell (Recruiter) and Rick Heilmann (GM) spoke at Doug Spero's Communication Class at Meredith College. On September 4, 2013 Chris Atwell (Recruiter) spoke at Shaw University to a Mass Comm class to try and recruit interns. On June 5, 2014, Dede Wakefield (Promotions Director for WQDR/Pulse) spoke to the Keller Institute at Appalachian University on "Marketing and Promotions...Doing It Right". On June 10, 2014,Brandon Dickson (WPTF Reporter) spoke to the Keller Institute at Appalachian University on "Adjusting From College to the Pros". On March 17, 2014, Chris Atwell (Recruiter) and Christy Pruden (Director of HR) attended the Raleigh Chamber of Commerce's Working Mother's Luncheon. On May 28, 2014, Curtis Media Group was a Media Sponsor at the 2014 Pinnacle Business Awards through the Greater Raleigh Chamber of Commerce. Christy Pruden (Director of HR), Chris Atwell (Recruiter) and David Stuckey (Sr.VP/GM) attended the event. On April 7, 2014, Christy Pruden (Director of HR) attended the Women In Business Awards presented by the Triangle Business Journal. 5 Internship Program Allowed students to receive academic credit for work performed while learning about the broadcast industry. The Internship program is on-going. It is open to any college student who maintains a GPA of 2.5 or higher, is recommended in writing by a faculty member in their respective major, and is able to work a minimum of 10 hours a week for academic credit. Interns work in various departments including: News/Public Affairs, Programming/Productions, Marketing/Sales, and Promotions. 6 Scholarship Programs

27 Company Chairman/CEO has established a scholarship for Communications students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to assist qualified students needing financial aid to pursue studies leading to a career in media. The Curtis Foundation has established the Bessemer City Curtis Scholars Program that will present four annual high school Scholarships each year. Each scholarship will be $5k payable in four payments over four years. To renew the scholarship for each of the four years, the student must maintain a 2.5 GPA and have either a summer internship, summer job or be on a course of study or travel. Renewals will be confirmed by the selection committee. The grants will be paid directly to the college of choice selected by the student. 14 Management Training On a continuous basis we provide training to management level personnel as to methods of ensuring equal employment opportunity. On June 23-24, 2014, the following Management attended the seminars at the 2014 NCAB Annual Convention: Don Curtis (CEO), Trip Savery (EVP), David Stuckey (Sr.VP/GM), Christy Pruden (Director of HR), Darcia Black (GM), Lisa McKay (VP of Programming), Alex McTighe (GM), and Rick Heilmann (GM). Our EVP, Trip Savery, counsels Senior Management on a quarterly basis in ways to promote diversity in hiring. 10 Programs offered by Education Institutions On a Continuous basis, Christy Pruden, Director of Human Resources serves on the Advisory Board of The Living Arts School of Communication Arts in Raleigh, NC and regularly meets with students identified by faculty with promising broadcasting skills. A couple of people on our Management Team and staff are involved in the Keller Radio Institute as a part of Appalachian University.