{"id":900245,"date":"2026-10-30T19:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T19:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/900245\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T19:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T19:40:08","slug":"kentucky-educational-television-announces-death-of-ceo-shae-hopkins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/900245\/","title":{"rendered":"Kentucky Educational Television announces death of CEO Shae Hopkins"},"content":{"rendered":"

LEXINGTON, Ky. (LEX NEWS) \u2014 Shae Hopkins, executive director and CEO of Kentucky Educational Television (KET), has died, the network announced Friday. <\/p>\n

Hopkins spent 40 years with the network and led it for more than 17 years. She had planned to retire at the end of 2026.<\/p>\n

“Hopkins was admired and beloved by her coworkers, board members, volunteers, and colleagues throughout the public broadcasting system. Her impact was far-reaching, and her loss will be felt for many years to come,” KET’s Friday statement reads. <\/p>\n

Hopkins is survived by her mother, siblings, children and grandchildren, as well as many other loved ones.<\/p>\n

Funeral arrangements have not yet been announced.<\/p>\n

This is a developing story, so check back with LEX18.com for updates.\u00a0Email the LEX18 Newsroom if you have info, photos or videos to share.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LEXINGTON, Ky. (LEX NEWS) \u2014 Shae Hopkins, executive director and CEO of Kentucky Educational Television (KET), has died,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":900246,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[88,92],"class_list":["post-900245","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\/900245","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=900245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/900246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=900245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=900245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=900245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}