Mona Dixon

Her tenure was marked by national acclaim, COVID-era innovation and legislative scrutiny over audit findings and procurement practices. read more >

Despite being wooed for other positions, Pledger, executive director and CEO of Arkansas PBS, has transformed the public media station in her five-year tenure. read more >

Arkansas PBS, now far more than the state’s educational TV network, claimed a basket of recent accolades after taking a crucial role during the pandemic: broadcasting a remote curriculum to the state’s children while continuing to evolve into a multiplatform conduit for telling Arkansas stories. read more >

After a leadership showdown and a nationwide search, the Arkansas PBS Foundation board has chosen a new CEO, experienced fundraiser Marge Betley. read more >

While pushing its traditional TV role into the digital age, Arkansas PBS, until recently the Arkansas Educational Television Network, is also at a crossroads of identity. read more >

The Arkansas Educational Television Network Commission briskly voted to approve a compromise with its fundraising arm Tuesday morning, ending months of feuding with the AETN Foundation. read more >

The Arkansas Educational Television Network Commission, stuck in a monthslong standoff with its own fundraising nonprofit, the AETN Foundation, will meet in a teleconference call at 11:30 a.m. read more >

Gov. Asa Hutchinson weighed in on controversies at AETN late Monday, assuring Arkansans that Executive Director Courtney Pledger will learn from an audit report finding $400,000 in misused spending. read more >

Arkansas educational TV chief Courtney Pledger, building her national profile even while facing a professional standoff back home, has been elected to the board of directors of PBS. read more >

AETN is offering proposals that could end a six-month dispute with its nonprofit fund-raising arm, according to details revealed in an emergency conference-call meeting of the network's commission. read more >

Melva Harmon, a longtime defender of Arkansas workers and unions known to her Little Rock fans as “the people’s lawyer,” died July 3 at age 71. read more >

Three months after setting a deadline, there has been no resolution announced in a stalemate that followed the firing of chief fundraiser Mona Dixon, the AETN Foundation COO who had been a fixture in Arkansas educational TV for three decades. read more >

Lawyers are talking and meetings are set in the power struggle between the Arkansas Educational Telecommunications Network and its nonprofit fundraising arm, the AETN Foundation. read more >

A deal to end a power struggle between the state’s educational TV network and its nonprofit fundraising foundation is under negotiation. read more >

Details are emerging about a settlement offer floated by Mona Dixon, the longtime AETN Foundation COO who was dismissed by AETN Executive Director Courtney Pledger in February. read more >

A crucial deadline in the Arkansas Educational Telecommunications Network’s standoff with its nonprofit fundraising foundation came and went this month with no resolution. read more >

The Arkansas Educational Television Network Commission has issued an ultimatum to its nonprofit counterpart, the fundraising AETN Foundation: Get on board with Executive Director Courtney Pledger or else. read more >

Bad blood at the Arkansas Educational Television Network is spilling further into public, with employees accusing Executive Director Courtney Pledger of forcing early retirements, retaliating against subordinates who question her and holding employees in “open contempt.” read more >

The rift between the Arkansas Educational Television Network and its support and fundraising arm, the AETN Foundation, didn’t get any mention at Tuesday’s quarterly meeting of the AETN Commission in Little Rock. read more >