ABOUT TEXAS PUBLIC RADIO
TEXAS PUBLIC RADIO exas Public Radio was organized in 1988 and questions on a wide range of subjects is offered BOARD OF DIRECTORS and formally incorporated the follow- during NPR’s Talk of the Nation and The Diane Rehm Chairman ROSE MARY FRY* ing year. It grew out of a merger of Show. Foreign perspective on news-making events is Vice-Chair two separate organizations, the Classical offered in The World and overnight broadcast of the JOHN MCLAUGHLIN* T President & CEO Broadcasting Society of San Antonio (owner of BBC World Service. Entertainment programs on DAN SKINNER* Secretary KPAC-FM) and San Antonio Community Radio weekends include such public radio favorites as A KAREN RAYZOR* (owner of KSTX-FM). TPR is an independent, non- Prairie Home Companion, Car Talk and San Antonio’s Treasurer DORA ANN VERDE* profit organization governed by a Board of Directors own Jim Cullum Jazz Band in the nationally distrib- Members composed of San Antonio and Hill Country resi- uted series Riverwalk, Live From the Landing. As many Freda Facey Mary Flanagan dents. as 96,000 people listen regularly to KSTX. Jay Forrest KPAC specializes in broadcasting classical music In 1998 Texas Public Radio added a third sta- Pat McGowan Marilyn Moll and fine arts information. For the most part, its pro- tion to the family. Transmitting from a site near Huyen Nguyen, M.D. gramming is created from its own library of classical Kerrville, KTXI-FM serves listeners in the Hill Dogan Perese William Rector, M.D. music recordings – a collection that provides varied Country with simultaneous broadcasts of programs Stewart Reuter, M.D. and comprehensive opportunities to sample the in the KPAC and KSTX schedules. William Reynolds Nancy Taylor Shivers entire range of music. The schedule also includes San Antonio and the neighboring Hill Country Tim Summerlin, Ph.D live broadcasts of The Metropolitan Opera and the are among the premier places in the nation to listen *EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE daily showcase of classical music, Performance Today. to the finest that public radio has to offer in great