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Local Public Television Stations Elect New Members to the Board of Trustees of the Association of Public Television Stations

WASHINGTON—January 30, 2008— The Association of Public Television Stations (APTS) announced the recent election of five new members of its Board of Trustees. APTS also announced that three current board members will return for their second terms.

The newly-elected professional trustees are Polly Anderson, president and CEO of KWBU, Waco, Texas, and Carolyn Bailey Lewis PH.D., director and general manager of WOUB Center for Public Media, Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. Each was elected to a three-year term.

Ms. Anderson has more than 20 years experience in marketing and communications, brand management and media. She currently serves as interim chair of the PBS Foundation Station Advisory Council and is active on several other public broadcasting boards and committees.

Dr. Lewis took the helm of WOUB Center in 1997 and has built and maintained myriad university and community partnerships. She also sits on the National Educational Telecommunications Association board and serves in various public broadcasting committees and councils.

The newly-elected lay trustees are Dorothy Pacella, executive director, Friends of Thirteen Inc., New York, and Gail Sande, member of the Public Television station, KNPB Board, Reno, Nev.

Ms. Pacella, has been executive director of Friends of Thirteen since 1989. She has been the recipient of several advocacy awards including the APTS distinguished David J. Brugger Grassroots Advocacy Award.

Ms. Sande has been actively involved in the Reno community for 31 years, and serves as chair of the Development Committee of the KNPB Board.

The APTS Board also elected Reynold Hoover, assistant vice president police & infrastructure protection, CSX Transportation, Jacksonville, Fla., as an at-large trustee. Prior to joining CSX in May 2007, Hoover was appointed by the President as a Special Assistant to the President of Homeland Security and Senior Director for Nuclear Defense Policy on the Homeland Security Council within the Executive Office of the President.

In addition, the APTS membership re-elected Henry Becton, Jr., vice chairman of WGBH, Boston, for a second term as professional trustee and John Baackas, chief executive officer, Senior Whole Health, Cambridge, Mass., for a second term as lay trustee. Gordon Bava, representing KCET, Los Angeles, was re-elected for a second term as an at-large trustee on the APTS Board.