KNME's Garcia Elected Chair of NETA Board of Directors

Ted A. Garcia, general manager and CEO of public television station KNME-TV, Channel 5 (PBS – Albuquerque / Santa Fe) was elected chair of the National Educational Telecommunications Association (NETA) Board of Directors at their recent meeting in St. Louis, Mo. Garcia will serve for a term of one year: July 1, 2004 - June 30, 2005.

“As a preeminent professional association serving public television licensees and educational organizations, NETA is highly respected as an indispensable asset to our industry. I am honored to serve as chair of NETA and to have the opportunity to work with such an extraordinary group of people serving in our interest,” Garcia said.

Headquartered in Columbia, S.C., NETA is a professional association serving public television licensees and educational entities in all 50 states, the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. Each year, NETA distributes more than 2,000 hours of general audience programming – produced by members, other public television entities and independent producers – via satellite to public TV stations nationwide. NETA-delivered programming reaches 98 percent of television households in the United States.

NETA, organized in 1997, is comprised of members of the former Pacific Mountain Network and the Southern Educational Communications Association.

The executive committee is comprised of seven members who are elected by, and represent, the 96 board members/public television licensees nationwide, who make up NETA.

Contact: Carolyn Gonzales, (505) 277-5920