About Us
Management & Board
Smoky Hills Public Televison Management
Leona
Breeden, Director of Educational Services
Debra Creamer, Director of Finance
& Administration
Terry Cutler, Director of Engineering
Matt Finnegan, Master Contol
Operator
Tricia Flax, Accounting Assistant
Jane Habiger, Director of Marketing
and Communications
Jayne Heller, Director of Development
Lawrence Holden, General Manager/C.E.O.
Les Kinderknecht, Producer/Director
Glenna Letsch, Traffic Director
Jason Liederbach, Master Control
Operator
Rodrigo Lopez, Producer/Director
Shelley Oden, Clerical Assistant
Membership
Pat Peck, Receptionist
Susan Penka, Corporate Support Representative
Brian Pertl, Assistant Chief Engineer
Michael Quade, Production Specialist
Aaron Roe, Engineering Technician
Judy Satchell, Clerical Assistant
to Communications
Nancy Selbe, Executive Assistant
Kari Sparks, Marketing and Communications
Assistant/Graphic and Website Designer
Dale Staab, Corporate Support Representative
Elizabeth Ulrich, Master Control
Operator
Malinda Walker, Director of Membership
Mary Pat Waymaster, Director
of Broadcasting
Smoky Hills Public Televison Board Members
Jack O'Leary,
Luray (Chair
Frank McKinney, Great Bend (Vice-Chair)
Carol Bales,
Logan (Secretary)
Mary Anderson, Osborne (Treasurer)
Neil Barnett,
Morland
Jean Cavanaugh, Great Bend
Randy J. Coleman, Goodland
John Divine, Salina
Cynthia A. Elliot, Hays
Bruce Frahm, Colby
Earnest Lehman, Hays
Ronald Michael, Lindsborg
I.B. "Sonny" Rundell, Syracuse
Ted Samuelson, Concordia
Richard Short, Goodland
Taylor Summers, Ulysses
Wallace Weber, MD, Dorrance
Randall Weller, Hill City
The corporation is advised by a community-based advisory board that meets every other month to review programming policy and major decisions of the board of directors.
Community Advisory Board Members:
Mary Bay,
Russell
Jackie Burton, Russell
Margaret Denning, Russell
Pat Haberer, Russell
Thelma Hutchinson, Russell
Arlene Krug, Russell
Francis Mahoney, Stockton
Pat Radke, Russell
Loretta Ross, Russell
Mary Catherine Ross, Russell
Meg Zweifel, Waldo
Smoky
Hills Public Television Corporation is incorporated as a community licensed
public television station. It is classified by the Internal Revenue Service
as a tax exempt, 501(c)(3), not-for-profit corporation.
The corporation is governed by a board of directors who represent the
52-county coverage area. The corporation employs a general manager to
manage the day-to-day operations of the station. The general manager is
a non-voting member of the corporation and sits in an ex-officio capacity
on all standing and ad hoc committees.