Session Participant

Vincent Curren

Job Title: executive vice president & chief operating officer
Company Name: CPB
Country: USA

Sessions associated with this speaker
	Conference keynote: Does Public Service Broadcasting have a future?

Vincent Curren is Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), a position he has held since July, 2006. In this role, Curren leads CPB's investments and strategic initiatives in television, radio, digital media, and education.

Curren came to CPB in 2003, initially serving as CPB's Senior Vice President for Radio, responsible for content and system development grants in radio, for policy development and investments related to public radio's use of new technologies to better serve its listeners, and for CPB's Radio Community Service Grant program.

Previously, Curren spent fifteen years at public radio station WXPN in Philadelphia, the last five years as General Manager. Early in his career, Curren worked in both public and commercial television.

Curren is a graduate of the State University of New York at Buffalo, and he received a master's in organizational dynamics from the University of Pennsylvania.

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting is a private, nonprofit corporation created by Congress in 1967. CPB's primary role is to serve as the steward of the federal government's investment in public broadcasting and, in doing so, provide a firewall to insulate public broadcasting and public media producers from outside political pressure. CPB helps to support the operations of more than 1,100 locally-owned and -operated public television and radio stations nationwide. CPB is a major funder of independent producers of public media content and is the largest single source of funding for research, technology, and program development for public radio, television and digital media.