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

WASHINGTON—February 6, 2009—The Association of Public Television Stations (APTS) announced the recent election of six new members of its Board of Trustees. APTS also announced the election of chair, professional vice-chair and lay vice-chair.  

The newly elected professional trustees are Rod Bates, general manager of Nebraska Educational Telecommunications (NET) in Lincoln, Neb., and Ellis Bromberg, general manager of Milwaukee Public Television. John Harris, president and CEO of Prairie Public in Fargo, N.D., was elected to an at-large trustee position.  Each was elected to a three-year term.  In addition, José A. Fajardo, president and CEO of WMFE in Orlando, Fla., was elected as a professional trustee for a one-year term.

The newly elected lay trustees are Hilma Prather, chair of Kentucky Educational Television in Lexington, Ky., and Jeffrey Stone, chairman of the Association for Community Broadcasting HoustonPBS.

The APTS board elected Henry Becton, vice chairman of WGBH in Boston, as chair of the APTS board, and Elizabeth Christopherson, president, CEO and director of The Rita Allen Foundation in Princeton, N.J., as lay vice-chair. The board also elected Bates as professional vice-chair.

In addition, the APTS membership re-elected Norm Silverstein, president and CEO of WXXI in Rochester, N.Y., for a second term as professional trustee and Diane Lilly, senior vice president, government relations at Wells Fargo Company in Minneapolis, for a second term as lay trustee.