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Enjoy highlights of the last 35 years with a special guest, Bruce Christensen, 2nd President and CEO of APTS and longest-serving President of PBS.

A Spectrum of Service: Education, Public Safety and Citizenship is the theme of The 2014 Public Media Summit. Come hear exactly what that means from a powerhouse of strategic partners.

The panel on public safety will include: Damon Penn, Assistant Administrator, Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA); Charles Murph, Assistant Director, State of Alabama Law Enforcement Agency; and Becky Magura, General Manager, WCTE in Cookeville, TN.

The panel on education will include: Dr. Terry Holliday, Commissioner of Education, the Commonwealth of Kentucky, and President of the Council of Chief State School Officers; and Nancy Carpenter, Senior Director for Education, KET in Kentucky. Moderating the panel will be Hilma Prather, APTS Board Member and member of the Kentucky Authority for Educational Television, the governing board of KET.

Governor Mike Pence, Republican of Indiana, will explore public television’s treatment of its viewers as citizens rather than consumers, and he’ll explain why he recommended State funding for public television for the first time in eight years in the Hoosier State.

• Lay Leaders Session – Roosevelt
  Cait Beroza, Advocacy & Social Media Manager, APTS, and Stacey Karp, Director, Communications, APTS.

  Leadership Council Members and lay leaders will have an opportunity to hear an update on the Leadership Council’s work and the Protect My Public Media grassroots campaign. This is a great way for lay leaders to network, ask questions about meeting with their federal lawmakers and discuss their stations’ work addressing local community needs.
   

• General Managers and Station Staff Session – Ballroom
  Lonna Thompson, Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer and General Counsel, APTS, and Ted Krichels, SVP, System Development and Media Strategy, CPB.

  GMs and station staff will have the opportunity to hear the findings from the recent study on spectrum by Booz & Company commissioned by CPB, and engage in a discussion with station colleagues about spectrum uses, the auction and repacking.        
             

Please join Patrick Butler, President and CEO of APTS, as he shares his vision of the future of public media.
 

The APTS legislative team will provide a dynamic presentation of the public television issues that are front and center in Washington, D.C.
 

Senator Collins will be honored with the CPB Thought Leader Award, which is given to leaders who affirm the essential value provided by public media to the American people.

Ken Burns will give us a preview of his film “The Address.” “The Address,” funded as part of the American Graduate initiative, showcases students with learning challenges from a small school in Putney, Vermont who memorize and recite the Gettysburg Address every year for an audience of parents. The program will also feature a video message from some “friendly neighbors” that live on a very special public media street.
Sponsored by CPB
 

Have your own questions ready about repacking, channel sharing, transition expenses, universal service, spectrum valuation, broadcast standards, mobile TV, public safety or anything else these experts in telecommunications can answer for you.

We are honored to welcome FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler (by video) and Commissioners Mignon Clyburn, Jessica Rosenworcel (by video), Ajit Pai and Mike O’Rielly.

APTS Future of Media Task Force advisor Anne Schelle, Venture Partner, Acta Wireless, will moderate this discussion with APTS COO Lonna Thompson.

Please help us honor this year’s David J. Brugger Lay Leadership awardee: APTS Board Vice-Chair Edmund Driggs.
 

The APTS Action, Inc. legislative consultants will lead a discussion about the current political environment for public media.

Panelists include:
J. Keith Kennedy, Senior Public Policy Advisor, Baker Donelson
The Honorable Steve LaTourette, President, McDonald Hopkins Government Strategies
Danica Petroshius, Principal, Penn Hill Group
Domenic Ruscio, Partner, Cavarocchi Ruscio Dennis Associates
 

As the national conversation turns towards the critical role of early childhood education, join PBS President Paula Kerger to hear new findings outlining the importance parents place on public media for help preparing children for school followed by a discussion with Pat Butler and Pat Harrison. 

APTS prize drawing will be done at the conclusion of this event. (Must be present to win.)
Sponsored by PBS