James T. Yee; Won Emmy for PBS Documentary

James T. Yee, 53, producer and former executive director of the Independent Television Service. A native of the Bronx, N.Y., Yee was educated at Fairleigh Dickinson and Antioch colleges and MIT. He earned an Emmy for producing the PBS documentary “a.k.a. Don Bonus” and produced “Freckled Rice” and “The Kiss” for television and “The Last Game Show” for radio. From 1981 to 1994 he was founding executive director of the National Asian American Telecommunications Assn. and from 1994 to 2000 he was executive director of the broader Independent Television Service. Both organizations are funded by the federal Corporation for Public Broadcasting and help minorities develop programs for possible use by PBS. Yee was on the boards of the San Francisco Film Commission, the Pacifica Radio Foundation, Western Public Radio, KPFA Radio and the Film Arts Foundation. On Saturday in Piedmont, Calif., of cancer.