The Educational Broadcasting Authority was established by the West Virginia Legislature in 1963 as a public benefit corporation on behalf of noncommercial educational radio, television and related media as it may consider to be in the best interest of the state.
The Authority holds the licenses for all the West Virginia Public Radio and West Virginia PBS stations in the state. The statute is under West Virginia Code 10-5.
Dennis Adkins is the Executive Director of the WV Educational Broadcasting Authority.
Current members of the Authority, as appointed, are:
Gov. Joe Manchin, Chair (designee, Kay Goodwin, Secretary of Education & the Arts)
Dr. Bruce Berry (WV Higher Education Policy Commission)
Ann C. Brotherton, Charleston
Laura Carter, Wheeling
John Dahlia, Fairmont
William H. File III, Beckley
Priscilla M. Haden (Appointed by WV Board of Education)
Dr. Steven Paine (WV Superintendent of Schools)
Mark Polen, Charleston
Ellen Spears, Elkins
Karen Shuler Stakem, Wheeling