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KQED Press Kit
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PRESS CONTACTS
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Contacts for journalists and reporters only. For information about contacting KQED, please visit the Contact Us page. Please send press releases or news story ideas directly to KQED Radio Programs contacts.
Scott Walton, Executive Director of Communications
415.553.2145
swalton@ncpb.com
Meredith Gandy, Publicist
415.553.2116
mgandy@kqed.org
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| Northern California Public Broadcasting Appoints
Linda O'Bryon, Chief Content Officer
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October 10, 2006, San Francisco --- Linda O'Bryon has been named the new chief content officer for Northern California Public Broadcasting. Jeff Clarke, president and CEO of Northern California Public Broadcasting, made the announcement today. Ms. O'Bryon will report directly to Clarke. A public broadcasting veteran for more than twenty-five years, Ms. O'Bryon succeeds John Boland, who recently left to assume the newly created role of Chief Content Officer at PBS.
Ms. O'Bryon will lead the content divisions of a multimedia organization that includes more than 150 television and radio producers and programmers, editors, reporters, educators, web content developers, management and technical personnel at KQED, KTEH, and KCAH.
In making the announcement this morning, Jeff Clarke stated, "I am delighted with the appointment of Linda O'Bryon as our new chief content officer. She brings to this post a wealth of relevant skills, expertise and stellar experience that will help shape our new organization and expand our content for listeners and viewers in the Bay Area and beyond. We admire her commitment to providing quality content and look forward to her leadership in delivering programming to our audiences."
Currently, Ms. O'Bryon serves as the senior vice president and general manager of NBR Enterprises/WPBT2, which produces Nightly Business Report (NBR), distributed nationally by PBS on more than 250 stations. In that capacity, she has orchestrated worldwide distribution and content partnerships that have helped shape The Nightly Business Report into an international business news force around the world.
She spearheaded the creation of the program in 1979, when she was serving as news director at the South Florida public television station, WPBT. When NBR launched for the first time in January, 1979, she both managed the program and served as its co-anchor. The program, celebrating its 25th anniversary of its national syndication this year, was nationally syndicated in 1981 and remains the leading source of daily business news on television. NBR has been credited for spawning the genre of daily news programming broadcast and cable television.
As general manager of NBR Enterprises, the operating division at WPBT that produces business news, O'Bryon oversees Nightly Business Report's editorial and business operations. In addition to producing 260 daily news programs a year and a daily News Brief, NBR Enterprises also oversees NBR's international licensing, its web-site on PBS.org, and video production projects with publishers such as Wiley, Houghton Mifflin and Knowledge@Wharton.
O'Bryon joined Miami-based WPBT2 as a producer/reporter in 1976, and later that year became the first woman television news director in South Florida. Before joining Public Television, O'Bryon was a producer at WPLG, Miami's ABC affiliate. She began her career as an on-air reporter for KCPX (now KTVX), Salt Lake City's ABC affiliate.
O'Bryon's work has earned her the distinction of being named as one of the 20th century's Top 100 Business News Luminaries, by TJFR. That group also ranked her, as the nation's most influential woman business news executive in the year 2001. She has received numerous other awards, including: Ohio State, Economic Understanding/Dartmouth College, American Women in Radio and Television, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, NATAS Silver Circle (Suncoast Chapter) and a regional Emmy. She is also the recipient of the 2004 Distinguished Achievement Award from The Society of American Business Editors and Writers (SABEW) for her role as a pioneer of television business news. A team of Nightly Business Report journalists won a 2005 National Emmy for business and financial reporting for the program's extensive coverage in China.
O'Bryon graduated cum laude from the University of Miami with a major in journalism and a minor in economics. She will move to the Bay Area with her husband, Michael.
Northern California Public Broadcasting operates KQED (San Francisco), KTEH (San Jose), and KCAH (Monterey) public broadcasting stations. KQED includes KQED Public Television 9, one of the nation's most-watched public television stations during prime-time, and KQED's digital television channels, which include KQED HD, KQED Encore, KQED World, KQED Life and KQED Kids; KQED Public Radio, the most-listened-to public radio station in the nation with an award-winning news and public affairs program service (88.5 FM in San Francisco and KQEI, 89.3 FM in Sacramento); KQED.org, one of the most visited station sites in Public Broadcasting; and KQED Education Network, which brings the impact of KQED to thousands of teachers, students, parents and media professionals through workshops, seminars and resources.
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