Obituaries
Toledo’s Timonere, early champion of children’s television, dies at 83
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Her work led to a Fred Rogers Award in 2003 from CPB for excellence in children’s television.
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Her work led to a Fred Rogers Award in 2003 from CPB for excellence in children’s television.
Miller is credited for guiding the nine-station network through the digital television transition to increased viewership.
“Radio listeners loved him for his wry sense of humor and deadpan delivery,” according to Iowa Public Radio.
Friends and colleagues remember Jones as an advocate for living up to public media’s ideals for reaching underserved audiences.
Stepanian was an “unparalleled leader who empowered Valley Public Radio staff, board and members to unequaled successes.”
“From the minute I set foot in the door at NPR, Walt was a source of friendship and wise counsel,” said NPR host Michel Martin.
The radio artist, who died Monday at 79, influenced many audio producers by expanding the medium’s potential as an art form.
Frank produced more than 200 programs for NPR and KCRW.
Sagner, a New York businessman, was nominated to the board in 1994 by President Clinton.
In a 1952 speech, Wittcoff called for “a bold and forthright plan for the creation of a national educational television network.”
A look back at public broadcasters we remembered in obituaries this year.
Pledge show producer TJ Lubinsky called Hill “one of the all-time great programmers.”
Nancy Zieman had announced her retirement due to health issues in September.
Bloom adapted magazine publishers’ practices of list-buying and direct-mail testing to public broadcasting membership programs.
Witherspoon was the first director of television at CPB.
Brown began producing the live “Feedback” show in 1968 on WJCT-FM in Jacksonville, Fla.
“Kip Campbell was the best television engineer that I have known in my entire career,” said Carl Davis, retired UNC-TV director of engineering.
Al Vecchione rose to president of MacNeil/Lehrer Productions.
Chamberlin was hired as a vice president at the fledgling CPB in 1969, where he helped create both PBS and NPR.
Simon’s films included an unflinching, deeply intimate portrait of a Vietnam veteran, broadcast on PBS in 1981.