American Public Television (APT)

Boston nonprofit syndicator founded in 1961 that distributes programs to the nation's public television stations, including the Create and WORLD channels, the APT Exchange and APT Worldwide international sales.

American Public Television (APT) is a nonprofit distributor of programming to public television stations across the United States, based at 10 Post Office Square in downtown Boston. Incorporated on February 9, 1961 as the Eastern Educational Network, it became the Interregional Program Service in 1980, the American Program Service in 1992 and American Public Television in 1999.

APT describes itself as a leading distributor of high-quality, top-rated programming to public television stations, with approximately 7,600 programs in rights and about one-third of the top 100 highest-rated public television titles distributed each year. Its services include syndication of completed programs, the Premium Service of pledge programs, the APT Exchange clearing house of prefunded programs offered to stations, and APT Worldwide, its international sales division. APT also distributes the Create lifestyle channel and the WORLD news, science and documentary channel. Programs it has distributed include America's Test Kitchen, Doc Martin, Midsomer Murders, Rick Steves' Europe, Lidia's Kitchen and NHK Newsline.

Jim Dunford is President and CEO and Paul Higgins is Chief Operating Officer; a board of trustees drawn from public television station leaders governs the organization. APT's teams cover programming and syndication, station relations and growth, communications, business development, technology and operations. It describes itself as an equal opportunity employer with a generous benefits package and offers paid part-time internships in communications, programming and APT Worldwide.

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