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Management Team
President and CEO, Lloyd Wright
Lloyd Wright has more than three decades of experience in public service media. In his current role as President and CEO of WFYI Public Media in Indianapolis, Wright oversees Indiana's flagship PBS and NPR member stations, which include WFYI Productions – a full service media production facility; WFYI's Learning Services; Indiana Reading and Information Services (IRIS) – a free service for Indiana's reading impaired, as well as the WFYI Foundation.
The longest-serving station manager in Indianapolis, Wright first joined WFYI in 1988 as Director of Program Production. The following year, he was appointed WFYI's President and Chief Executive Officer. Prior to his arrival at WFYI, Wright served for six years as Broadcast Operations Manager of WTTW (Chicago), was Producer/Director/Writer for the Indiana University News Bureau and Director of Instructional Broadcasting for the Indiana Department of Education.
Under Wright's leadership, WFYI Public Media relocated in 2008 to a state-of-the-art facility along "Broadcast Row" near downtown Indianapolis, and successfully completed the first phase of its Campaign for the Future, raising $20.2 million.
Wright presently serves on the PBS Board of Directors, and is Chair of the Board of Directors of National Datacast, Inc., a subsidiary of PBS. He also serves as chair of the Public Television Major Market Group (PTMMG), a consortium comprised of the public television stations in the 30 largest media markets in the nation.
Wright is a graduate of Indiana University, and the proud father of three children.
Executive Vice President of Support Services, Jeanelle Adamak
As WFYI Public Media's Executive Vice President of Support Services, Jeanelle Adamak maintains oversight of the station's marketing, development, communications, employee relations, administration, and finance divisions.
She is an experienced fundraising professional with more than two decades of service at WFYI. Under Adamak's leadership, WFYI's budget has grown from $2.3 million in 1990, to nearly $10 million today; the station successfully completed the first phase of its $20.2 Campaign for the Future in 2008, and was the recipient of one of the largest Kresge Challenge Grants in Indiana history; and in 2010, WFYI was presented with the prestigious PBS Award for Overall Development. Additionally, the station's three signature events - PBS KIDS in the Park, Speaking of Women's Health, and the Ice Miller Indy Wine Festival - were all established during Adamak's tenure.
Before becoming an executive vice president in 2001, Adamak served as WFYI’s membership manager, development director and vice president of communications and development. Prior to her arrival at WFYI, she was director of development for KOCV Public Broadcasting in Odessa, Texas, her hometown.
An active member of the Central Indiana community, Adamak serves on the Board of Directors for the Riverview Hospital Foundation and the Indiana Dramatic Arts and Communications Society. She is also a member of WFYI's Speaking of Women's Health steering committee and Indianapolis Downtown Inc.'s Marketing Board.
A graduate of Indiana Wesleyan University, Adamak, and her husband, Russell, have been married for 37 years, and have two grown children and one grandchild.
Executive Vice President of Content Services, Alan Cloe
During his four decades of service at WFYI Public Media, Alan Cloe has been involved in nearly every strategic decision and instrumental in all facets of the station. In his current role as Executive Vice President, Cloe oversees WFYI's content services, including the broadcast schedules for the station's three digital television services and two HD radio services; local program production; interactive media; community engagement & lifelong learning services; IRIS (a free, statewide reading service for Indiana's reading-impaired citizens); in addition to all broadcast engineering functions for the station.
Cloe is a graduate of DePauw University, and earned his MBA from Indiana University. He is a member of the Indianapolis Downtown Kiwanis Club and serves on the boards of the Indiana Debate Commission, Indiana Coalition for Open Government, the Near North Development Corporation and the Indiana Youth Services Association.
In 2010, Cloe was honored by the National Association of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS)-Lower Great Lakes Chapter for his years of exemplary service in the Indianapolis broadcast market when he was inducted into the organization's Silver Circle.
Cloe, and his wife Susan, have been married for more than 35 years and have two grown sons.
Radio
Local Morning Edition host, Scott Hoke
Scott Hoke has been WFYI Public Radio's local Morning Edition host since November, 2004. He also serves as an on-air host for many of 90.1 FM and WFYI Public Television's local program specials.
In addition to his work at WFYI Public Media, Hoke hosts the popular Mecum Collector Car Auctions on Discovery Channel and HD Theater. He serves as the host for the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra's summer concert series, Symphony on the Prairie. Hoke is also a member of the Public Address crew for the Indy 500, Brickyard 400, and Red Bull MotoGP events at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. And, he's the chief audio engineer at Mt. Pleasant Christian Church in Greenwood, IN.
For more than 25 years, Hoke has been in demand as a voice over artist, video spokesman and emcee. His list of clients includes the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, The Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, NCAA, ESPN, CBS Sports, Firestone, Dow AgroSciences, Rolls-Royce Allison, The U.S. Department of Energy, The Hal Leonard Corporation, The Christel DeHaan Foundation, The Indianapolis Indians, Beck's Hybrid Seeds, and more.
Before coming to WFYI, Hoke was the Indiana Pacers' TV host for six years on FOX Sports Indiana and WB4. He also served for eight years as a sports anchor and reporter for WRTV-6 (ABC).
Hoke holds a bachelor's degree in Radio/TV from Butler University. It was as a student at Butler that he got his start in public radio at the university's former NPR station, WAJC. Hoke is an avid musician and also enjoys photography, cycling and fishing. He, and his wife Kelly, and their four children, live in Hendricks County.
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