PBS president to head museum

PBS President Pat Mitchell has been named to be the next president of the Museum of Television & Radio, a nonprofit organization based in New York and L.A. that preserves broadcast programs and facilitates seminars about the industry.

Mitchell, who announced last year that she would be leaving her post at PBS this spring after six years there, said she wants to make the museum a leader in discussions about the technological changes transforming television and radio.

“We want to really be a place where if there’s an important idea, a new technology, a new change that’s going to impact the lives of people in the business and consumers, we want the idea to be discussed here,” she said in an interview Wednesday.

She assumes her new post on March 15. Mitchell’s successor at PBS is expected to be named later this month.

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-- Matea Gold