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Clarence “C.C” Copeland is the president and CEO of Louisiana Public Broadcasting (LPB). He has held the position since 2022, following 25 years at the organization in both engineering and management roles, including serving as acting director since 2021 and serving as Deputy Director prior to that. In 2023, Copeland was elected to serve on the American Public Television (APT) Board of Trustees. Since 2015, he has served on the PBS Engineering Technical Advisory Committee (ETAC) and was its vice chair from 2020-2022. In 2011, under Copeland’s leadership, LPB became the first Public Broadcasting Service station to air an NRT (Non-Real Time) program from a digital file, part of the PBS Interconnect Project. Copeland also led the agency’s FCC Television Spectrum Repack that began in 2016. He is a member of the National Society of Broadcast Engineers, the Louisiana Association of Broadcasters and serves on Louisiana’s Commission on Civic Education.

Under his leadership, LPB has premiered multiple award-winning documentaries including The Precipice, which explores the cultural and climate challenges facing Louisiana’s Pointe-au-Chien Indian Tribe. The documentary went on to win a Suncoast Emmy® and was named the 2024 Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities Documentary of the Year. Other highlights include the Emmy® nominated Louisiana history docuseries Why Louisiana Ain’t Mississippi… or Any Place Else!, Angela Gregory: A Legacy Chiseled in Stone, and A Tall Order: The Louisiana State Capitol, as well as the Suncoast Emmy® award-winning digital-to-broadcast series Safe Haven: Exploring Louisiana’s Green Book. LPB saw their digital offerings expand to include two seasons of Ziggy’s Arts Adventure, an educational children’s puppet series that highlights Louisiana artists and includes educational art activities. LPB also saw great success with strategic partnerships. Working with PBS Digital Media and Houston Public Media, LPB produced the successful series Ritual, which explores the depths and varieties of rituals across the American South. LPB expanded their Louisiana French language programming with the series La Veillée, in partnership with Télé-Louisiane, and recommitted to sports programming with an LPB first - the broadcast of the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame 2023 Induction Ceremony.

Copeland is a member of the National Society of Broadcast Engineers and the Louisiana Association of Broadcasters and a member of the Baton Rouge Rotary Club and a member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc. He holds both a Bachelor and Master of Arts in Mass Communication from Southern University and A&M College.