TV & Video : Rockefeller Takes Post:

Sharon Percy Rockefeller, who last March was named to head a search committee to find a new president-chief executive officer for WETA-TV-FM in Washington, is herself going to assume the post. Rockefeller, 44, former chairman of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, resigned from the committee after she decided to throw her hat into the ring. She was the unanimous choice of the 11-member committee to head WETA, the third-largest production center for the Public Broadcasting Service. Ward B. Chamberlin Jr., who is stepping down Dec. 1 after 15 years as president, said that the station found “the best possible choice in our own back yard.” Rockefeller, a cum laude graduate of Stanford University, is married to Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV (D-W. Va.) and is the daughter of former Republican Sen. Charles Percy of Illinois. Her political connections are seen as making her a powerful fund-raiser for WETA, which is involved in producing “The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour,” “Washington Week in Review,” “In Performance at the White House” and “Smithsonian World.”