President & CEO - Becky Magura
Becky Magura has been serving as president and CEO of Nashville PBS since September 2021. An established leader in public media, Magura has more than 40 years of experience in management, strategic leadership, production and educational engagement in public media.
A native Tennessean, Magura resides in Nashville and serves as Chair of the Tennessee Public Television Council and has received numerous awards, including Nashville/Midsouth Regional Emmys; Tennessee Governor’s Award for Excellence in Early Foundations; the Cumberland Business Journal’s Ovation Award for Community Service and was named as a Rotary Paul Harris Fellow.
She holds B.S. and M.A. degrees in Education, with an emphasis in Communications, from Tennessee Tech University in Cookeville, TN. Magura is a skilled leader in strategic partnerships and change management. Also, she also has decades of experience in television production as an on-air host, producer, and videographer.
Early in her tenure at Nashville PBS, she led the team to stand up two new 24/7 broadcast channels: WORLD and Create TV; two new regional series: A Slice of the Community and Clean Slate as well as the creation and implementation of a comprehensive three-year strategic plan.
In 2024, Magura and the Nashville PBS team successfully launched a full brand transition from NPT to Nashville PBS including a campus refresh, a signature magazine highlighting stories of local impact and a new OTT ATSC 3.0 channel in partnership with Sinclair and in early 2025, a 24/7 ALL ARTS digital channel with WNET, NY.
Magura is currently serving on the APT: American Public Television Board and the MMG: Major Market Group Executive Board. She previously served six years on the national PBS Board of Directors, including the PBS Executive Board and as Chair of the PBS Interconnection Committee. Other national board services include APTS: Association for Public Television Stations Board, NETA: National Telecommunications Association Executive Board, and the Small Station Association Executive Board.
Magura believes strongly in supporting independent producers and collaborative station productions to develop a broader audience connection through public media. She and the Nashville PBS team have been actively producing and curating new content such as Brenda Lee: Rockin’ Around; Facing the Laughter: Minnie Pearl; Ear to the Common Ground; Have Guitar Will Travel; Volunteer Woodworker; By Western Hands and Down the Duck with John Guider. Previous national productions Magura stewarded for national distribution include Bluegrass Underground; Barnegie Hall, Songwriting with Soldiers and Jammin’ at Hippie Jack’s.
Committed to lifelong learning and the use of public media for K-12 education, Magura has successfully served as the liaison for the Tennessee PBS At-Home Learning Collaborative in partnership with the Tennessee Department of Education and all six Tennessee Public Television Stations.
Magura was named a 2021 recipient of the PBS C. Scott Elliott Development Professional of the Year Award and completed the Public Media Diversity Leaders Initiative, a program of the Riley Institute at Furman University as well as a recent graduate of Leadership Nashville: Class of 2024.