Fenneman appears with psychiatrist Edward Hallowell on a 1998 pledge special that she produced, Worry: Controlling It and Using It Wisely.
Fenneman will become fourth head of American Public Television
Adapted from Current, Nov. 13, 2000
American Public Television will introduce its new president, Cynthia A. Fenneman, at its annual Fall Marketplace this week in La Jolla, Calif. Fenneman, a onetime broadcast chief and executive producer for New Hampshire PTV and production executive for cable and PBS programs, joins the Boston-based public TV syndicator in January, succeeding Joseph Zesbaugh. She becomes the fourth president in APT's 39-year history.
As president of Fenneman Productions for six years, she served as a major projects executive for Discovery Health Channel and special projects director for PBS's Democracy Project. She was executive producer of programs for A&E Biography, PBS's Ciao Italia and APT's Worry: Controlling It and Using It Wisely pledge special. Earlier, she worked eight years at New Hampshire PTV as executive producer of local and national productions and then as director of broadcasting.
She spent 10 years with Westinghouse Broadcasting in Philadelphia, San Francisco and Baltimore, producing various programs including Evening/PM Magazine. Fenneman is board chairperson of the Children's Museum of Portsmouth, N.H., and a resident of Maine.
Screening in La Jolla
The menu of programs to be screened this week at APT's Fall Marketplace event reflects the syndicator's range of programming, including travel and cooking series, British imports and occasional pledge blockbuster.
Woodland creatures of Redwall Abbey star in Redwall, a new animated series from Nelvana Productions that will be among the programs pitched at the Fall Marketplace. Public radio's Savvy Travellerhost, Rudy Maxa, is premiering in his first TV series and public TV's first to be taped in high-definition, Smart Travels—Europe with Rudy Maxa. The show comes from Small World Productions, Seattle. (Small World's longtime star, Rick Steves, has set out with Oregon Public Broadcasting to host a separate APT-distributed series, Rick Steves' Europe,already airing on stations.)
APT is ballyhooing the fifth season of the BBC's Ballykissangel, a small-town ensemble series that has been compared to Northern Exposure, according to APT spokeswoman Beth Potier. Also coming from Britain is Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased), a paranormal mystery series involving a dead private eye who's still on the job. APT programmer Eric Luskin reportedly refers to the series as "Jonathan Creek meets The Sixth Sense."
Meanwhile, one of the year's biggest offerings from APT's Premium Service will hit the air starting Nov. 23: The Three Tenors Christmas, featuring Christmas songs in the usual crossover varieties and taped last December in Vienna's Konzerthaus. Carreras, Domingo and Pavarotti not only perform, but Pavarotti also coauthored one of the songs and Domingo's son wrote another. The 75-minute program is co-produced by Sony International Music Events and ORF, the Austrian broadcaster. APT said the special was bought by 184 stations, with a combined reach of three-quarters of the U.S. population.
Web page posted Nov. 22, 2000
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