/ 05.19.2010 12:00AM
APTS Forms CEO Search Committee
ARLINGTON, VA.: The Association of Public Television Stations is
seeking a new executive leader. The group’s board has formed a CEO search
committee to fill the vacancy left by Larry Sidman, who left April 1 after
nearly a year on the job. (See “Sidman resigns as
APTS president” at Current.org.)
Committee co-chairs are Polly Anderson, general manger of KNME-TV in Albuquerque,
N.M., and Elizabeth Christopherson, president of the Rita Allen Foundation in
Princeton, N.J.
Committee members include APTS Board Chairman Rod Bates, general manager of Nebraska
Educational Telecommunication; DeAnne Hamilton, general manager of WKAR-TV in
East Lansing, Mich.; John Harris III, president of Prairie Public Television in
Fargo, N.D.; Skip Hinton, president of NETA; Tom Karlo, general manager of
KPBS-TV in San Diego, Calif.; and Lonna Thompson, APTS acting president. The
committee will develop a job description, set a timeline, and evaluate search
firms, the APTS said.
-- Deborah D. McAdams