Press Releases
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Tennessee Department Of Safety and Homeland Security Grants Tennessee Public Television $2 Million for Datacasting Pilot Project
09/28/18
The Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security is making a $2 million grant to Tennessee’s Public Television Stations to fund a pilot project that will deliver private, secure communication between first responders and their management teams in case of an emergency or natural disaster, according to Commissioner David W. Purkey. -
APTS Urges FCC to Fully Fund Post-Auction Consumer Education
09/26/18
America’s Public Television Stations (APTS), with the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the Public Broadcasting Service, today urged the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to fully fund the consumer education program established by Congress to help television viewers adjust to new channel assignments required in the aftermath of the 2017 spectrum auction. APTS president and CEO Patrick Butler issued the following statement accompanying the public television filing with the FCC. -
APTS Supports FCC Rules To Improve Wireless Emergency Alert System
09/10/18
America’s Public Television Stations (APTS), with the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the Public Broadcasting Service, filed comments today with the Federal Communications Commission regarding the wireless emergency alert (WEA) system. APTS president and CEO Patrick Butler issued the following statement. -
America's Public Television Stations Statement on the Death of Senator John McCain
08/25/18
Patrick Butler, president and chief executive officer of America’s Public Television Stations, tonight issued the following statement on the death of Senator John McCain: -
APTS Commends the U.S. Senate for Providing Level Funding for Public Broadcasting
08/23/18
America's Public Television Stations (APTS) president and CEO Patrick Butler issued the following statement today commending the U.S. Senate for providing level funding for public broadcasting in the Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 Labor, Health and Human Services and Education (Labor-HHS-Education) Appropriations Bill. -
Houston Public Media Demonstrates Public Safety Datacasting Capabilities To International Association of Fire Chiefs
08/08/18
America’s Public Television Stations (APTS) president and CEO Patrick Butler today commended Houston Public Media for its presentation on public television’s public safety capabilities to the International Association of Fire Chiefs (IAFC): -
APTS Statement on FCC Filing in Consideration of New Rules for EBS Licenses
08/08/18
America’s Public Television Stations (APTS) today urged the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to allow Educational Broadband Service (EBS) licenses to expand the reach of their services and apply for additional open EBS spectrum. -
FCC Expert Panel Commends Public Television’s Public Safety Datacasting Capabilities
07/19/18
America’s Public Television Stations (APTS) president and CEO Patrick Butler issued the following statement today on the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) Communications, Security Reliability and Interoperability Council's (CRIC) report on the comprehensive re-imagining of emergency alerting. -
APTS Commends the U.S. House Appropriations Committee for Providing Level Funding for Public Broadcasting
07/11/18
America’s Public Television Stations are grateful to the House Appropriations Committee for providing level funding of $445 million for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) for Fiscal Year 2021, as well as level funding of $20 million in FY 2019 to support public television’s interconnection and infrastructure needs, and level funding of $27.7 million in FY 2019 for Ready To Learn, a competitive grant program at the Department of Education that supports public television’s essential work -- on-air, online and on-the-ground -- in early childhood education. -
APTS Commends the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee For Providing Level Funding For Public Broadcasting
06/28/18
America's Public Television Stations (APTS) president and CEO Patrick Butler issued the following statement today on the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee's vote providing level funding of $445 million for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) for Fiscal Year 2021 and $20 million in FY 2019 for an annual interconnection and infrastructure account. -
APTS Statement on the FCC’s NPRM on Requirements for Educational and Informational Children’s Programming
06/21/18
America’s Public Television Stations (APTS) president and CEO Patrick Butler issued the following statement today on the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to reexamine requirements of television licensees to provide educational and informational children’s programming. -
APTS Commends the U.S. House Labor-HHS-Education Subcommittee for Providing Level Funding for Public Broadcasting
06/15/18
America's Public Television Stations (APTS) president and CEO Patrick Butler issued the following statement today commending the U.S. House Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies (Labor-HHS-Education) Subcommittee for recommending significant funding for public broadcasting. -
America’s Public Television Stations Elect Sherrese M. Smith to APTS Board of Trustees
06/06/18
America’s Public Television Stations (APTS) today announced the election of Sherrese M. Smith, a partner at the law firm of Paul Hastings in Washington, D.C., to a three-year term as an at-large trustee on the APTS Board and at-large director on the APTS Action, Inc. Board. -
APTS Congratulates Ruby Calvert and Laura Ross on their Confirmation to the CPB Board
05/25/18
America’s Public Television Stations (APTS) president and CEO Patrick Butler issued the following statement on the confirmation Ruby Calvert and Laura Ross to the Board of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB). -
APTS President and CEO Patrick Butler’s Keynote Address at ATSC Conference Details Public Television’s Embrace of the Next Gen Broadcast Standard
05/24/18
In a keynote address to the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) conference, America’s Public Television Stations (APTS) president and CEO Patrick Butler said public television stations see advances in distance learning, emergency communications and civic leadership among the features of ATSC 3.