Ron Bachman Email & Phone Number

Ron Bachman is a Senior Director of Programming at WGBH at WGBH. He possess expertise in television, content strategy, television programming, editorial, broadcast and 12 more skills.

Listed skills include Television, Content Strategy, Television Programming, Editorial, and 13 others.

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  Senior Director Of Programming

  Wgbh

  2001 - Present

  After 10 years as program manager, during which time I created the TV schedules for WGBH and WGBX and shepherded the expansion of the latter from a part-time "repeat" station to a second full-service public television station for the Boston market, I became director of programming in 2001. In that capacity I work with the associate director of programming on the WGBH and WGBX schedules; have forged partnerships with regional films festivals to bring a strong slate of independent films to WGBH viewers, and have created annual TV opera and dance festivals. Since 2004, I have also overseen the programming for WGBH's multicast channels--the largest expansion of the station's television services since 1967--including the WORLD channel, which since 2007 has been nationally distributed to more than 60 markets across the US. In the fall of 2005, I was elected to the board of directors of the Public Television Programmers' Association, a professional development association of which I became vice president in 2006 and president (for a one-year term) in 2007. In 2010, I received an Outstanding Leadership Award from the PTPA and in 2013, a programmer of the year award from American Public Television. In 2023, I received the Jerry Trainor Mentorship Award from the PTPA. Also, from 1990 to 1995, as a sideline, I wrote host Diana Rigg's commentary for the PBS series "Mystery!"