APTS Elects New Board Members

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The Association of Public Television Stations Sunday
announced six new members of its board of trustees.

They are Ronnie Agnew, Mississippi Public Broadcasting;
Edward Kaplan, Maryland Public Broadcasting Commission; Becky Magura, WCTE-TV
Cookeville, Tenn.; Russell J. Peotter, WGBY Public Television, Springfield, Mass.;
Allan Pizzato, WYES New Orleans; and Leslie Wilcox, PBS Hawaii.

The board also named new leadership, naming Polly Anderson,
WUCF-TV Orlando, chair; and John Harrins, Prairie Public Broadcasting, vice chair.

APTS represents noncommercial stations in Washington. It is
currently urging the FCC to clarify the upcoming incentive auctions' impact on
local restrictions on selling TV station license rights.

John Eggerton
John Eggerton

Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Technology, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.