January 6, 2009
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Jim Pagliarini
President and Chief Executive Officer
Twin Cities Public Television
St. Paul, Minnesota
Jim Pagliarini joined Twin Cities Public Television (tpt) as its fifth President and CEO in September, l997. He began his career in public broadcasting immediately after graduate school, in 1976, at KTEH in San Jose, California. Prior to joining Twin Cities Public Television, Mr. Pagliarini helped found public television station KNPB/Channel 5 in Reno, Nevada, where in 1982 he became CEO and general manager. While in Reno, he served two terms as a member of the Board of Directors of the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), including positions on the Board’s Executive Committee, Nominating Committee, and as Vice Chair of the Board’s Finance Committee.
He was re-elected to the PBS Board in 2006 and will chair the Board’s Strategic Planning Advisory Committee. He has also served on numerous national task forces that explored, refined, and redefined the business of public television, including the National Task Force on Future Funding, the PBS Task Force on Pricing Policies and Programming, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting’s (CPB) Television Policy Committee. He is a past chairman of the Pacific Mountain Network’s Board of Directors; past president of the Nevada Broadcasters’ Association, and served a two-year term as the national coordinator of public television’s Small Station Association. More recently, Mr. Pagliarini has served on CPB’s Digital Funding and Digital Rights Task Force.
During 2005–06, he took a half-time leave of absence from his position at tpt to lead a national strategic planning project for public television stations. Besides serving as a member of AIT’s Board of Directors, Mr. Pagliarini serves on a number of local advisory and nonprofit boards—among which is the Neighborhood House, an organization working to address the needs of new immigrants and diverse communities in Minnesota. He received his undergraduate degree in biology from Princeton University and his master’s degree in education from Temple University. He is married to Elizabeth Raymond, a professor of social and cultural history at the University of Nevada-Reno.
February 2007