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September25,2012
Paula A. Kerger is president and chief executiveofficerof PBS,the nation’s largest non-commercial
media organization withmore than 350 member stations throughout the country.
Ms. Kerger joined PBS as its sixth president and chief executive in March 2006. Since her arrival,
Ms. Kerger has made particularly strong commitments to the arts,news and publicaffairs,high-
quality content foreducation,diversity,and theuseof new technology to bringpublicmedia
into the lives of all Americans.
Under Ms. Kerger’s leadership, PBS has been growing its audiences across genres, and platforms.
In the course of a year, nearly ninety percent of all television households in America watchPBS,and
over eighty percent of all children watch PBS. Six of the top ten children’s television shows are on
PBS. And online, viewers stream 180 million videos per month on PBS platforms.
Among her accomplishments are the pop-culture phenomenon “DowntonAbbey,” whichis the
most-watched MASTERPIECE program in the series’ history; Ken Burns’s 2012 documentary, “The
Dust Bowl”;the debut of such acclaimed children’s programs as “Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood,”
“The Cat in the Hat Knows A Lot About That,” “Dinosaur Train,” “Curious George” (the number one
show forchildren ages 2-5 since 2006),“WordWorld,” “Super Why!,” “Martha Speaks,” and “Sid
the Science Kid”; new primetime science and arts series; the new PBS ARTS website and ARTS
Festival; and comprehensive online sites forparents and caregivers. PBS has also developed the
new PBS LearningMedia, whichprovides educators with strategies, tools, and professional
development resources needed to fully utilize digital learning in the classroom.

2. EnigmaClubDj’s - José LuisRosario Vargas (YosheaNyelleHazzette)
P.O. Box 450401, Kissimmee,FL 34745; P.O. Box 8364, Ponce, PR 00732-8364
Cell#: (787)4313115 * (352)2830226
E-mail:yosheanyelle.djenigmatranslati@gmail.com;akarat.andres@gmail.com
September25,2012
For the 2011-2012 seasons, PBS programs were honored with 12 Primetime Emmy Awards, 11
Daytime Emmy Awards, and nine News & Documentary Emmy Awards. PBS was also honored with
seven George Foster Peabody Awards; four Golden Globe nominations; one Television Critics
Association Award;seven IDA Documentary Award nominations; 15 Writers Guild of America
nominations; three Webby Awards; and eight Parents’ Choice awards.
During Ms. Kerger’s tenure, PBS has developed critically praised online video portals for general
audiences (video.pbs.org) and children (pbskids.org/video and pbskids.org/go/video) as well as
innovative digital partnerships with such companies as iTunes, YouTube,Microsoft’s Xbox,Netflix,
Amazon, Hulu, and Comcast’s On Demand service ensure that PBS programming is accessible across
multiple platforms and, increasingly, to a global audience.
In addition to leading PBS, Ms. Kerger is president of the PBS Foundation,anindependent
organization that raises private sector funding for PBS,and has become a significant source of
revenue for new projects at PBS. Ms. Kerger is regularly included in the HollywoodReporter’s
“Women in Entertainment Power100,” an annual survey of the nation’s top women executives in
media. In 2005, she was named to the Women’s Forum, an organization of 300 leading women in
New York’sarts and business scenes. In 2008,Ms. Kerger receivedthe Woman of Achievement
Award from Women in Development, New York. And in 2012, she was honored by Promax/ BDA ,
B&C and Multichannel News with their 2012 Brand Builder Award.
Prior to joining PBS, Ms. Kerger served formore than a decade at EducationalBroadcasting
Corporation (EBC),the parent company of Thirteen/WNET and WLIW21New York,where her
ultimate position was executivevice president and chief operating officer. Her tenure boasts many
achievements, including WNET’s completion in 1997of the largest successful endowment
campaign ever undertaken by a public television station.
Ms. Kerger received her bachelor’s degree from the University of Baltimore, where she serves on
the Merrick School of Business Dean’s Advisory Council. In addition, she is a director of the
International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and a member of the board of the
Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History,and the ElizabethGlaser Pediatric
AIDS Foundation. Ms. Kerger and her husband Joseph Kerger live in Washington, D.C.

3. EnigmaClubDj’s - José LuisRosario Vargas (YosheaNyelleHazzette)
P.O. Box 450401, Kissimmee,FL 34745; P.O. Box 8364, Ponce, PR 00732-8364
Cell#: (787)4313115 * (352)2830226
E-mail:yosheanyelle.djenigmatranslati@gmail.com;akarat.andres@gmail.com
September25,2012
Paula's RecentSpeeches:
Keynote at PBS AnnualMeeting in Denver - May 2012
Keynote at PBS Technology Conference- April 2012
Remarks at PBI InternationalinSingapore-October2011
Remarks at the 36th AnnualGracieAwards -May 2011
OpeningRemarks at PBS AnnualMeeting in Orlando,Florida -May 2011
TEDxMidAtlantic -November2010 (37.5 KB)
PBS AnnualMeeting
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