COMPANY

Nonprofit company cooperatively owned by member stations, funded in part by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

Official Website:
http://www.pbs.org/

Industry:
Media

Ticker:
(coop)

Corporate headquarters:
Arlington, VA

EXECUTIVES

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Ervin S. Duggan	Government	30-Jun-1939		CEO of PBS, 1994-99
Patricia E. Mitchell	Business	c. 1943		CEO of PBS, 2000-06
John F. Swope	Business	c. 1939		President of Chubb, 1980-94

CURRENT BOARD MEMBERS OR DIRECTORS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Chuck Hagel	Politician	4-Oct-1946		US Senator from Nebraska, 1997-2009
Norman Ornstein	Author	14-Oct-1948		American Enterprise Institute
Sharon Percy Rockefeller	Business	10-Dec-1944		CEO of WETA Public Broadcasting

BOARD MEMBERS OR DIRECTORS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Donna A. Tanoue	Government	5-May-1954		FDIC Chairman, 1998-2001
Walter L. Weisman	Business	c. 1935		American Medical International

PAST BOARD MEMBERS OR DIRECTORS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Louise H. Bryson	Business	c. 1944		Chairman of Getty Trust
Alberto Ibargüen	Publisher	c. 1944		President of the Knight Foundation
Newton N. Minow	Government	17-Jan-1926		FCC Chairman, 1961-63
Sam Wyly	Business	1934		Early computer entrepreneur

EMPLOYMENT

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Jack Horkheimer	Astronomer	11-Jun-1938	20-Aug-2010	Naked-eye astronomer
Bill Nye	TV Personality	27-Nov-1955		Bill Nye the Science Guy

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