WVIA Public Media competitors

Steve Bass is a President & CEO at Oregon Public Broadcasting- OPB and is based in Portland Oregon Area. He has worked as Vice President/General Manager at WGBH, Director of Development & National Corporate Support at PBS, and President & CEO at Nashville Public Television. Steven attended Bucknell University between 1975 and 1979 and Wisconsin School of Business between 1979 and 1981.

Nantz Rickard is a President and Chief Executive Officer at DCTV and is based in United States.

Senior Executive with proven track record as Chief Executive Officer, President and Chief Operations Officer in publically traded and private corporations all with rapidly changing and highly competitive market environments. Also served in high ranking government positions, including Managing Director of the City of Philadelphia, the most senior non-elected position in the government.Specialties: Strong leadership and management skills in organizational settings with diverse constituencies. Particular strengths in:developing, communicating and executing clear vision and strategy for improved performance; ensuring individual high performance patterns to improve team performance; developing customer driven strategies; using vision and values to shift organization culture as required by market conditions, and; directing complex and major projects.

Deborah Acklin is president and chief executive officer of WQED Multimedia, the nation’s first community-owned public media company, also known worldwide as “Mister Rogers’ station”.Ms. Acklin has served in multiple executive roles in public broadcasting, the cable television industry, and commercial broadcasting. At WQED Multimedia, she manages or has managed the operations, strategies, and fundraising to create original multi-platform content distributed across three television channels, three radio signals, an interactive Web-based learning channel, an interactive global media distribution portal, an education department, a publishing division, and PBS, NPR and their member stations.Her tenure includes many achievements, including four Mid-Atlantic Emmy Awards for Station and Overall Excellence, given by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences to a general manager of a commercial or public television station in Pennsylvania, Delaware, West Virginia and New Jersey.