Standing Committees
All standing committee chairmen serve as ex-officio members of the Board of Directors.
Church Media
Chairman
Rod Payne, Christian Family Network Television
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| Rod Payne |
Rod Payne is President of Christian Family Network Television, Wichita Falls, TX. CFNT has been a recipient of the NRB’s LPTV Station of the Year on three occasions, including 2011. A graduate of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Rod has a long history with NRB, having attended his first convention in 1988. He has served as the Chairman of NRB’s TV Committee and has taught at both NRB & NAB. He serves as the spokesman for the Coalition for Free TV and Broadband. Rod and his wife of 35 years, Vicky, have three children.
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Intercollegiate
Chairman
Mark Seignious, Northwestern College
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| Mark Seignious |
Mark Seignious worked in radio 20 years before joining Northwestern College in 2001. He has worked at radio stations in San Diego, Seattle, Sacramento, and Minneapolis/St Paul. While most of his radio experience has focused on talent/production, he has also worked in marketing, and news. His students have won more than 70 national and regional awards, including over half of the student awards offered by the National Religious Broadcasters in each of the last three years. He has a passion for the supremacy of Christ and enjoys camping, fly-fishing, cooking, and time with his wife and his three children.
International
Chairman
Hannu Haukka, Great Commission Media Ministries
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| Hannu Haukka |
Dr. Hannu Haukka is the founder and president of Great Commission Media Ministries, formerly known as IRR/TV. This organization is having a worldwide impact for the Gospel, in Russia, Asia, and the Middle East.
For over 30 years Hannu and his wife Laura have ministered to millions throughout the former Soviet Union. During the last decade they have used a strategy of media saturation to introduce hundreds of thousands to the hope found in Christ in major cities of the world.
Dr. Haukka and his ministry have received NRB awards for his outstanding witness and work for the cause of the Gospel.
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Internet
Chairman
Nathan Tabor, TCVmedia.com
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| Nathan Tabor |
Nathan has served as the President and CEO of TCVmedia.com since founding it in 2005. TCVmedia.com is a professional full-service internet firm that specializes in website design, social media optimization and consulting services. Nathan is committed to helping ministries use the internet and social media to spread the gospel of Jesus Christ. He earned his M.A. from Regent University in 1998, was part owner of Revival Soy from 1999 to 2005, published The Beast on the East River in 2006, sold TheConservativeVoice.com to Townhall.com in 2008, and was listed in the top 50 entrepreneurs in North Carolina in 2009. A member of NRB since 1999, he is married to Jordan and they have a daughter named Abigail.
Music Licensing
Chairman
Ed Atsinger, Salem Communications Corporation
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| Ed Atsinger |
Edward G. Atsinger III has served as the CEO of Salem Communications Corporation since founding the company in the early 1970s with brother-in-law, Stuart Epperson. They successfully created a strategic, commercial model for Christian broadcasting that brought Christian radio to the country’s top 25 markets. As of 2009, Salem operated in 22 of those top 25 markets—with access to over 100,000,000 potential listeners. As Chairman of the NRB Music License Committee, he has successfully waged a number of legal and legislative battles with the performance rights organizations (ASCAP, BMI, etc.), protecting a viable model for Christian music on terrestrial radio. He is a member of the NRB Board of Directors.
Executive Director
Russ Hauth, Salem Communications Corporation
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Radio
Chairman
Jim Kirkland, Billy Graham Evangelistic Association
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| Jim Kirkland |
Jim Kirkland directs the radio ministries of the BGEA as well as Blue Ridge Broadcasting, including 2008 Station of the Year WMIT. He joined BRB in 2001 as Director of Programming and Operations, moving to GM in 2005. Previously, Kirkland was in program management, with experience in seven different general-market formats at stations in Richmond, VA; Memphis, TN; Greenville, SC; and Greensboro, NC. A former board chairman of Christian World Adoption, Jim and his wife Janet have two daughters and live in Hendersonville, NC.
Television
Chairman
Jim West, Legacy TV
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| Jim West |
Jim West’s 44-year Broadcast career began in radio during high school and progressed to TV in college. He left the position of News Director of WTVT, Tampa, to start WORSHIP and later founded PraiseTV, FaithTV, MyFamilyTV and LegacyTV networks, the last now seen on nearly 200 stations. He attended Wheaton, Trinity College, Palm Beach Atlantic (B.A.-History) and Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville (M. Div.-1977). He has been married for 41 years to Debbie with two grown children and three grandchildren. He teaches an adult Sunday School class at First Baptist Church of New Port Richey, FL.
