Ted A. Garcia, general manager and chief executive officer of public television station KNME-TV, Channel 5 (PBS – Albuquerque / Santa Fe), has been elected chair of the Board of Directors of the Pacific Mountain Network (PMN). Formerly a regional program distributor, PMN now invests in public television programs and services. PMN is governed by a nine-person executive council, elected for three-year terms by the 33 member public television stations.
“I am honored to have been selected by my peers to chair this board,” said Garcia. “Leadership in public service media is critical to meeting the needs of the people of New Mexico and throughout the Western United States, through the creation and distribution of the highest quality programming and educational services.”
Garcia also serves on the national Board of Directors of PBS (Public Broadcasting Service). Elected by general managers of the 170 PBS licensees across the country, the PBS Board of Directors is responsible for governing and setting policy for the Public Broadcasting Service. Board members serve without pay.
Garcia serves as chair of the National Educational Telecommunications Association (NETA) Board of Directors. NETA is a professional association serving public television licensees and educational entities in all 50 states, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico, and is headquartered in Columbia, South Carolina. NETA-delivered programming reaches 98 percent of television households in the United States.
He is also one of only six business executives from across the nation named to a team of 19 advisors - the “2020 Vision Committee” of the Southern Illinois University (SIU).
Contact: Evy Todd, (505) 277-1218
Posted by scarr at August 2, 2005 05:09 PM