Mel Rogers

Mel Rogers is president and general manager of KOCE-TV in Orange County, California. He recently concluded two terms of service on the Board of Directors of PBS. He has been involved in public broadcast media since 1984 when he joined KBYU-TV in the Salt Lake City market as station manager. His career in media began in the 1970’s when he was a radio and television journalist for stations in Salt Lake area and later an adjunct professor of media courses at Brigham Young University and also at Chapman University. He holds a master’s degree in international communications and a bachelor of arts degree in broadcast journalism. He has been a public relations professional and is a principal in Ethos Institute a media-consulting firm to businesses and corporate CEO’s. At both KOCE and KBYU Rogers took under performing public television stations and dramatically grew them in size, viewership, revenues and community impact. He is an unapologetic, enthusiastic believer in media that exists to serve and not to sell. Roger has served on multiple task forces responsible for national planning and policy making for both PBS and CPB. He has been president of public television’s Small Station Association, Program Resources Group, California Public Television Stations Association, Beta Group Stations and also the Utah Broadcasters Association.

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