{"id":869313,"date":"2026-10-03T11:28:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T11:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/869313\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T11:28:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T11:28:11","slug":"ivey-removes-5-alabama-television-commission-members-after-pbs-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/869313\/","title":{"rendered":"Ivey removes 5 Alabama Television Commission members after PBS survey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">MONTGOMERY, Ala. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsfa.com\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"http:\/\/www.wsfa.com\">WSFA<\/a>) &#8211; Five members of the Alabama Television Commission were removed by Gov. Kay Ivey Friday, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/AL.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/AL.com\">AL.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The decision came just days after the results were revealed of a survey issued by the commission.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">That survey focused on residents\u2019 views on Alabama Public Television programming and whether they should cut ties with PBS.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The members who were replaced:<\/p>\n<p> District 1: Wallace Gilberry, replacing Les Barnett District 3: Ric Smith, replacing Pete Conroy District 5: Neil Lamb, replacing Bebe Williams District 6: Sally Smith, replacing Ferris Stephens District 7: Samory Pruitt, replacing William Green<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The only previous members left from the commission are Tijuanna Adetunji and Logan Glass.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The commission fought over the idea of disaffiliation following the federal funding cuts to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and political pushback led to public uproar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The commission later voted to maintain PBS affiliation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Not reading this story on the WSFA News App? Get news alerts FASTER and FREE in the <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/wsfa-12-news\/id449733109\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Apple App Store<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.raycom.wsfa&amp;hl=en_US&amp;gl=US\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Google Play Store<\/a>! <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WSFA. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) &#8211; Five members of the Alabama Television Commission were removed by Gov. Kay Ivey Friday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":869314,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[88,92],"class_list":["post-869313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=869313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/869314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=869313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=869313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=869313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}