Public Media Infrastructure, a new non-profit founded in November 2025 to “innovate radio and digital distribution systems; create new tools and shared services for revenue generation, data analytics, and audience development; and build new content delivery services and products designed to enable local stations to remain vital sources of local news and programming for their communities” has announced its inaugural Board of Trustees.
Founded through a $57.9 million grant from the CPB before its shutdown by American Public Media Group, PRX, New York Public Radio, Station Resource Group, and the National Federation for Community Broadcasters, Public Media Infrastructure is also responsible for ensuring the continuity and stability of core system-wide infrastructure and operations including satellite and emergency alert systems—to ensure that stations continue to operate seamlessly and without interruption.
New York Public Radio Executive Chair LaFontaine Oliver will serve as Chair of the PMI Board. The remaining board members will be KKCR Community Radio General Manager Anni Caporuscio, KCAW Raven Radio General Manager Mariana Robertson, Radio Bilingüe Co-Executive Director José Martínez-Saldaña, Vermont Public CEO Vijay Singh, and Louisville Public Media President/CEO Kenya Young. Bob Kempf continues to serve as Interim Executive Director and additional board members will be added later this year.
National Federation of Community Broadcasters CEO A. Rima Dael said, “Our board strives to reflect the full breadth of who public media actually is—across station formats and in every type of community across the nation, large and small, rural and urban, legacy and emerging. These leaders bring deep, lived experience from stations serving communities every day, and a clear understanding of both the fragility and the power of public media infrastructure. That range of perspective is exactly what PMI was created to hold and to protect.”
LaFontaine Oliver added, “I’m grateful to CPB for the vision and foresight to invest in this station-centered consortium, as we work to imagine the future of our system, and put muscle into the project of building it. The tie that binds this country’s incredible tapestry of public radio stations is our commitment to public service—through the vital news, information, education, arts, culture, and connection we provide our communities every day. I’m honored that my fellow founding partners have entrusted me to help lay PMI’s foundations as Chair of the Board, and energized to be stepping into this new role.”
