Weekly Luncheon & Program

Weekly Luncheon & Program
KLRU TV - Austin City Limits and Beyond

Speaker: Bill Stotesbery, CEO of KLRU
Introduction by Lion Mac Ragsdale

Come to this program to get an overview of the past, present, and exciting future of public television in Austin and it's impact and legacy in Austin.

KLRU Public Television is going through enormous changes. It's new studios for it's popular Austin City Limits is now located at the plush "W" Hotel Moody Theater downtown and there are future plans for new facilities at it's home base on the UT campus in a new Communications Building.now under construction. Plus lots of new shows are in the pipeline.

Our speaker is Bill Stotebery, CEO and General Manager of KLRU-TV, Central Texas' PBS station. KLRU-TV is a community-owned, non-profit organization, and the non-commercial public television station serving more than 700,000 households in 18 counties in Central Texas, one of the nation’s major media markets.

Long associated with its award-winning music concert series, Austin City Limits, KLRU has also become known as one of the leading producing stations in the PBS system with over a dozen local and regional series and documentaries currently in development or production and more than a dozen Lone Star Emmys in recent years.

Before joining KLRU, Bill had a 25 year career in marketing, public relations, and public affairs, primarily for technology companies. He currently serves on the Board of the Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce and has previously served as a board member and volunteer with many organizations, including as a member of the Board of the Texas Department of Information Resources, Chair of the Texas Center for Educational Technology at the University of North Texas, and chairman of the National State Government Affairs Committee of the American Electronics Association, and chairman of Leadership Austin.