JOE BRUNS

Joe Bruns is serving his first term as a professional trustee on the APTS Board. Bruns joined WETA in 2001 as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of this dual-licensee station serving the nation’s capital region.

Bruns has more than 12 years of public broadcasting experience, and more than 25 years in broadcasting. While with WETA, Bruns has been engaged in every aspect of operations as the station has grown in strength as a local radio, television station and a major national producer. Bruns has served on numerous committees and as a station representative with PBS, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) and APTS. Most recently, he served on the CPB Community Service Grant Station Review Panel, and as co-chair of the Public Television Major Markets Group’s committee on Spectrum Reallocation. Bruns is a regular participant with the Major Market Group and the National Educational Television Association.

Bruns began his public broadcast as Chief Financial Officer and Chief Administrative Officer for KQED in San Francisco, where he helped lead the station to solid growth and financial stability. In addition to his experience in public broadcasting, Bruns has spent more than 22 years working in Washington on matters of public interest and public policy. He has prepared and delivered Congressional testimony before both appropriations and authorizing Committees of the House and Senate. Bruns has worked with Members and staff, regulatory agencies, including the FCC and NTIA, and a wide range of Executive Branch agencies. He was also a pioneer in the use of the Internet in broadcasting by putting Voice of America audio scripts, and eventually multi-language digital audio files, on the Internet in January, 1994, becoming the first international broadcaster to take advantage of this as a new broadcast medium.