NEWSROOM | SOUTHERN NEVADA PUBLIC TELEVISION ANNOUNCES CHANGES IN LEADERSHIP

Southern Nevada Public Television (SNPT) welcomes a new group of leaders to its Board of Directors and to SNPT’s Planned Giving Council.

The new leadership roles for SNPT consist of the following:

• Clark Dumont, President, Dumont Communications, LLC
• Nora Luna, Vice President, UNR Cooperative Extension
• Michael Cunningham, Secretary, Bank of Nevada
• Kim Walker, Treasurer, Kim Walker, Inc.
  

The new SNPT Planned Giving Council members are:

• Russ Kost, BDO USA, LLP
• Patrick Clifford, Clifford Senior Law
  

The new leadership roles will go into effect on January 1, 2021.

SNPT was founded in 1971 as the Friends of Channel 10 to support Vegas PBS programming through fundraising, volunteers, and marketing events. The Friends of Channel 10 group was reorganized to become Southern Nevada Public Television in 1999, to assist Vegas PBS with the government-mandated conversion to digital broadcast and the capital campaign to build the Vegas PBS Educational Technology Campus.

SNPT’s Planned Giving Council focuses on major gifts to Vegas PBS. Members of the Council present ten public seminars a year on a variety of planned giving topics and provide free services for individuals planning major gifts to Vegas PBS.

To learn more about SNPT, visit vegaspbs.org/about/councils.

About Vegas PBS

Vegas PBS is a member-supported public television service providing educational content for over 50 years. Vegas PBS builds community through television, education services, and unique experiences that create a sense of place, civic and social capital. For 11 consecutive years, Vegas PBS has remained among the top three most-watched PBS stations in the country. The station offers five unique secondary channels: Create, VEGAS PBS KIDS, WORLD, Rewind and Jackpot! The station collaborates with community partners to create award-winning content that examines informational, cultural, historic, and educational regional issues.

Vegas PBS provides a robust variety of education services that extend the educational experience beyond the broadcast. Resources and services include Vegas PBS’ Ready To Learn educational workshops for children and families, professional development for teachers, online learning courses and certifications for adults, multimedia educational support for educators, 25+ channels of educational and local news for in-classroom viewing, and a Special Needs Resource Library serving those with special needs throughout the state of Nevada.

Vegas PBS viewers can access their favorite shows across multiple platforms including broadcast, vegaspbs.org, the PBS Video App and the PBS KIDS Video App. For more information, visit vegaspbs.org or find us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn and YouTube.

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