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For Immediate Release August 10, 2009
United States Senate Approves Patricia Cahill to the CPB Board of Directors
Washington D.C. -- The United States Senate on Friday approved the nomination of Patricia Cahill to serve on the board of directors of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
Cahill is the general manager of KCUR-FM, a public radio station at the University of Missouri - Kansas City, where she also serves as an assistant professor of Communication Studies.
She has worked in public radio for 40 years. Prior to KCUR, she was the general manager of KMUW-FM at Wichita State University as well its news and program director. Cahill was also an instructor in speech communications and journalism at the school. She has served on the board of directors of NPR and as president of the board of Public Radio in Mid America (PRIMA).
Cahill earned a B.A. and M.A. from the University of Kansas. Her term expires in 2014.
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