Biography

Terry O'Reilly is an award-winning media executive, with more than five decades of experience in media leadership, production, distribution, technology, strategic leadership, and development.

He presently serves at Chairman of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (the EMMY Awards organization), sits as a Member of the Board of the International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences), and since 2016 has served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Pittsburgh Community Broadcasting Corporation.

Previously he was Senior Vice President and Chief Content Officer for Twin Cities PBS, the Nation's highest-rated local public television service. There, he was responsible for program production, acquisition and distribution - for local and national PBS audiences - on traditional TV, as well as on digital, mobile and OTT platforms. He was responsible for broadcast operations & engineering, and creative services. For this work he was honored with more than two dozen awards, including a National Daytime EMMY for TPT's groundbreaking "SciGirls" television series (for PBS), and a film showcased at the Sundance Film festival in 2012.

The first half of Terry's career focused on broadcast journalism, initially in local television and ultimately in national and international television news as Vice President, Americas for Worldwide Television News Corporation (an international news agency, and a division of ABCNews). Terry moved into cable television in 1997, as Senior Vice President of Programming for The Weather Channel, then went on to serve for more than a decade in a variety of positions at Hubbard Broadcasting Inc. (a privately-held media firm). During that tenure he served as President of CONUS Communications Company (responsible for introducing Satellite News Gathering in the United States), and as Chairman of the Board for wholly-owned subsidiaries TVI Media LLC (a New York-based media sales company) and Phoenix Television Limited (a London-based international television production company).

In 2007 he moved to Los Angeles, and assumed leadership at a startup cable television network (ReelzChannel) as its Executive Vice President of Programming and Production, where he remained until joining Twin Cities PBS in 2009.

In 2025 he was inducted as a member of the Gold Circle of the National academy of Television Arts and Sciences, recognizing more than 50 years of service to the industry.
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