John King, president and CEO of Vermont Public Television, has been elected
to serve a three-year term on the PBS Board of Directors. He has also been
elected chair of the Organization of State Broadcasting Executives (OSBE),
which is the affinity group representing the nation’s statewide public
broadcasters.
The PBS board includes both professional directors, who lead public
television stations, and general directors, who represent the public. The
directors are responsible for governing and setting policy for PBS. In
total, the board comprises 27 members: 14 professional directors; 12 general
directors; and the PBS president. PBS board members serve without pay.
John King joined VPT in 1987 as chief financial officer and was later
promoted to vice president of finance and administration, then to senior
vice president and chief operating officer. He was appointed president and
CEO in 1998. His service to public broadcasting includes being former chair
of the National Educational Television Association and of the Public
Broadcasting Management Association, as well as several PBS committees and
task forces. He is a member of the Association of Public Television
Stations. He serves on the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB)
Community Service Grant Review Panel and has served on the CPB Future Fund
Advisory Panel and the CPB Digital Innovation Panel.
Locally, King serves as chair of the Vermont Television Broadcasters
Collocation Association. He is a member of the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical
Center Assembly of Overseers and the Vermont Business Roundtable. He is
also on the Board of the McGill University International Executive
Management Institute.
He holds a master’s degree in public administration from Harvard University,
a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Johnson State College
and an associate’s degree in business administration from Champlain College
He is a resident of Colchester, Vt.