Inside OPB
FROM OUR PRESIDENT:
Giving Voice to the Community
Over the past few years, as unemployment has risen across our region, Oregon's small towns have been particularly hard hit. Many have faced the loss of anchor industries and a devastating decline in resources and support services.
Yet despite the challenges, residents, local organizations and businesses are collaborating to build communities that thrive in this new reality—allowing people to keep the life they love in rural Oregon.
And OPB is proud to help share the voices, ideas and stories of rural Oregonians as they re-envision their communities through our new Rural Economy Project.
With funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and in partnership with the Rural Development Initiative, Sustainable Northwest and the Oregon Consortium/Workforce Alliance and WorkSource Oregon, OPB will produce radio and news stories, along with extensive online resources, that explore the unique challenges rural communities face in today's economy. Over the next few months, you'll hear more about:
- · Think Out Loud on location in rural communities
- · A five-part radio series produced by OPB reporter Kristian Foden-Vencil
- · An extensive Web site featuring blogs, video stories, and employment information and skill building events developed by rural Oregonians
We're grateful for this opportunity to convene a conversation that explores issues and helps find solutions to challenges many of us face in Oregon today.
Steven M. Bass
President and CEO
Our Mission
Oregon Public Broadcasting: giving voice to the community, connecting Oregon and its neighbors, illuminating a wider world.
OPB Management
- Steve Bass
- President & CEO —
- Dan Metziga
- Senior VP, Development —
- Lynne Clendenin
- VP, Radio Programming —
- Dave Davis
- VP, National TV Production —
- Jeff Douglas
- VP, Local TV Production —
- Mary Gardner
- Director, TV Programming —
- Jan Heskiss
- Chief Financial Officer —
- Morgan Holm
- VP, News and Public Affairs —
- Don McKay
- VP, Engineering —
- Rebecca Morris
- VP, Legal Affairs — legal@opb.org
- Lynne Pollard
- VP, New Media —
- Debbie Rotich
- VP, HR and Administration —
OPB Board of Directors
- Chair
- Andrew Franklin
- Vice Chair
- Elizabeth Schwartz
- Secretary/Treasurer
- Jim Huston
- Board Members
- Sherwin Davidson
- Julie Strasser Dixon
- Leda Garside
- Avel Gordly
- Tinker Hatfield
- Dian Hilliard
- Jodie Hueske
- Jeff Iwasaki
- Pamela Jones
- Sydney Joyner
- Henry Lorenzen
- Sheryl Manning
- Keith Mobley
- Mitchell Moore
- Romy Mortensen
- Ron Saxton
- Peter Schenck
- Howard Shapiro
- John "Ski" Sygielski
- Jenny Ulum
- Al Vermeulen
- Ex-Officio
- Steven M. Bass
- CAB Chair
- Tom Hampson
- OPB Board Liaison
- Brenda Barton —
OPB Community Advisory Board
- Chair
- Tom Hampson
- Board Members
- Bret Bernhoff
- Charlie Dolezal
- Charles Hudson
- Janet Miller
- Jeff Monaghan
- Dawn Rasmussen
- Miguel Salinas
- Kaitlin Smith
- Gerald Sussman
- Sarah Tatone
- Erik Vidstrand
- Karen Wheeler
- OPB Board Liaison
- Avel Gordly
- OPB Staff Liaison
- Lynne Pollard
Board of Directors Meeting Schedule
All meetings are open to the public and held at OPB unless otherwise noted. The schedule below is subject to change. Please to confirm meeting times and dates or to get more information.
- March 2010
- March 2, Tuesday: 12:15pm (Appy Room)
- June 2010
- June 1, Tuesday: 12:15pm (Appy Room)
- September 2010
- September 14-15: Board Retreat, TBD
- December 2010
- December 7, Tuesday: 12:15pm (Appy Room)
- March 2011
- March 1, Tuesday: 12:15pm (Appy Room)
- June 2011
- June 7, Tuesday: 12:15pm (Appy Room)
- September 2011
- September 13-14: Board Retreat, TBD
- December 2011
- December 6, Tuesday: 12:15pm (Appy Room)
Board Committee Meeting Schedule
All meetings are open to the public and held at OPB unless otherwise noted. The schedule below is subject to change. Please to confirm meeting times and dates or to get more information.
- Audit Commitee
- May 3, 2010, Monday: 3pm (PacifiCorp Room)
- Community Advisory Board
- March 4, 2010, Thursday: 12pm (PacifiCorp Room)
- Development Committee
- TBD
- Finance & Investment Committee
- May 21, 2010, Friday: 12pm (PacifiCorp Room)
- September 24, 2010, Friday: 12pm (PacifiCorp Room)
- November 19, 2010, Friday: 12pm (PacifiCorp Room)
- Governance Committee
- TBD
- Human Resources Committee
- TBD
- Strategic Planning Committee
- TBD
Milestones in OPB History
- 1922
- KFDJ-AM radio is created as part of a physics experiment at Oregon Agricultural College, now Oregon State University, in Corvallis.
- 1930s
- KFDJ becomes KOAC, with studios in Covell Hall at Oregon State University. Studios at Covell are still used.
- 1957
- OPB’s first television station, KOAC-TV, goes on the air.
- Early 1960s
- Westinghouse Broadcasting Co. transfers ownership of its FM frequency to OPB and KOAP-FM (now KOPB) begins broadcasting.
- 1979
- The Oregon Commission on Public Broadcasting is established. In 1981 OPB leaves the Department of Higher Education and becomes an independent state agency.
- 1988
- OPB moves into its new facility on SW Macadam Avenue after its successful building campaign.
- 1989
- Oregon Considered, OPB's own Pacific Northwest news magazine, is first broadcast.
- Early 1990s
- Membership exceeds 100,000.
- 1990
- Oregon Field Guide begins production.
- 1993
- OPB becomes a private, nonprofit corporation with ongoing financial support from the State of Oregon.
- 1997
- OPB Radio's program format is refined to include more news and information.
- OPB installs Oregon’s first digital transmitter, taking a critical first step in the digital television transition.
- 2000
- Oregon Art Beat begins production.
- OPB loses all state funding.
- 2002
- OPB's World of Learning Digital Campaign raises $22 million.
- 2003
- History Detectives season 1 premieres for PBS.
- 2005
- OPB brings StoryCorps -- a national project inspiring Americans to record one another's stories in sound -- to Portland. Local residents visit the mobile StoryBooth to share their stories for broadcast on OPB Radio and preservation at the Library of Congress.
- 2006
- Oregon Experience, OPB's local television series exploring key people, places and events in our state's history, premieres.
- OPB, FRONTLINE and the Oregonian join forces to examine the methamphetamine epidemic through television specials (FRONTLINE: The Meth Epidemic, Meth: The Oregon Front), radio programs and online resources.
- 2007
- OPB TV celebrates its 50th anniversary.
- OPBnews.org -- an expanded news and information Web site -- launches.
- OPB invites community members from around the Northwest to help cover the news by signing up for the Public Insight Network.
- 2008
- opbmusic.org, an online music service encouraging conversation and connection between OPB and our community of local music fans, launches.
- Think Out Loud, OPB's local online and daily radio broadcast, premieres.
- KOPB-AM (1600) Eugene begins providing OPB Radio's news and information service.
- OPB and its community partners begin a statewide, multiplatform campaign to increase awareness about the impact of invasive species, featuring The Silent Invasion: An Oregon Field Guide Special, an invasive species online hotline and numerous outreach opportunities.
- Time Team USA, a new archaeology program for PBS, begins production.
- 2009
- OPB receives the duPont-Columbia University Award, one of the most prestigious national honors in the field of broadcast journalism, for The Silent Invasion: An Oregon Field Guide Special. The documentary illustrates how invasive species are changing the environment in Oregon, and focuses on ways people can work together to make a difference to native fish and wildlife resources, Oregon's economy and quality of life. The program's premiere in April 2008 marked the kickoff of the ongoing "Stop the Invasion" campaign that encourages community partners and citizens to collaborate in their efforts to take action against invasive species.
More information about OPB
- PDF downloads
- OPB Member Report (PDF)
- DTV Quarterly Activity Station Report-KEPB-July 2009.pdf
- DTV Quarterly Activity Station Report-KOAB-July 2009.pdf
- DTV Quarterly Activity Station Report-KOAC-July 2009.pdf
- DTV Quarterly Activity Station Report-KOPB-July 2009.pdf
- DTV Quarterly Activity Station Report-KTVR-July 2009.pdf
- DTV Quarterly Activity Station Report-KEPB-April 2009 (PDF)
- DTV Quarterly Activity Station Report-KOAB-April 2009 (PDF)
- DTV Quarterly Activity Station Report-KOAC-April 2009 (PDF)
- DTV Quarterly Activity Station Report-KOPB-April 2009 (PDF)
- DTV Quarterly Activity Station Report-KTVR-April 2009 (PDF)
- DTV Quarterly Activity Station Report-KEPB-January 2009 (PDF)
- DTV Quarterly Activity Station Report-KOAB-January 2009 (PDF)
- DTV Quarterly Activity Station Report-KOAC-January 2009 (PDF)
- DTV Quarterly Activity Station Report-KOPB-January 2009 (PDF)
- DTV Quarterly Activity Station Report-KTVR-January 2009 (PDF)
- Annual EEO Report, 2009 (PDF)
- Form 990 — FY09
- Form 990T — FY09
- Independent Auditor's Report and Financial Statements — FY09 (PDF)
- Emergency Alert System
- OPB has been designated the “State Primary” for the Emergency Alert System, initiating messages informing other broadcasters, viewers and listeners of a wide variety of emergencies including tsunamis, floods and Amber Alerts.
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- 7140 SW Macadam Avenue
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