WASHINGTON – March 28, 2013 – Patrick Butler, President and CEO of the Association of Public Television Stations, will be the featured guest on C-SPAN’s The Communicators on C-SPAN on Saturday, March 30 at 6:30 p.m. (ET) and again on Monday, April 1 on C-SPAN2 at 8:00 a.m. (ET) and 8:00 p.m. (ET).
Butler will discuss the future of public broadcasting with Communications Daily reporter Kamala Lane and The Communicators host Peter Slen.
The Communicators is C-SPAN’s weekly series featuring a half-hour interview with the people who shape the nation’s communications future.
Butler, who has headed the public television association since January 2011, is a former senior vice president of the Washington Post Company, a former special assistant and policy director to US Senate Majority Leader Howard H. Baker, Jr., and a former speechwriter for President Gerald R. Ford.
As Washington vice president of Times Mirror, the parent company of the Los Angeles Times, in the 1980s, he was a founder of the Times Mirror Center for The People & The Press, a public opinion research center on politics, public policy and media issues now operating as the Pew Research Center.
As president of Newsweek Productions, he supervised production of more than 200 hours of non-fiction television programming, including Watergate Plus 30: Shadow of History, which won the Emmy Award for Best Documentary of 2003.
Butler was also chairman of PCS Action, a consortium of media and technology companies which in the early 1990s helped launch the Personal Communications Services digital wireless industry that enabled the development of mobile telecommunications devices.
About APTS
The Association of Public Television Stations (APTS) is a nonprofit membership organization established in 1979. The mission of APTS is to conduct – in concert with member stations – advocacy, planning, research and communications activities in order to achieve strong and financially sound noncommercial television and advanced digital services for the American people. APTS provides consistent leadership and information that helps our members better accomplish their own missions and goals. Through its affiliate APTS Action, APTS promotes the legislative and regulatory interests of noncommercial television stations at the national level through direct advocacy, and grasstops and grassroots campaigns designed to garner congressional support. For more information, visit www.apts.org.
About C-SPAN
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