Pass the Bucks
By David Hatch -- Broadcasting & Cable, 2/16/2004
| ASSOCIATION | YEAR ENDED | REVENUE | TOP EXECUTIVE | SALARY |
| Motion Picture Assn. of America | 12/31/02 | $45,792,601 | Jack Valenti, pres./CEO | $1,370,211 |
| National Cable & Telecommunications Assn. | 12/31/02 | $31,025,510 | Robert Sachs, pres./CEO | $1,263,082 |
| National Assn. of Broadcasters | 3/31/02 | $56,011,871 | Eddie Fritts, pres. | $905,008 |
| Television Bureau of Advertising | 12/31/02 | $5,018,728 | Christopher Rohrs, pres. | $602,346 |
| NATPE | 3/31/03 | $4,446,553 | Bruce Johansen, pres.1 | $600,871 |
| Cable and Telecommunications Assn. for Marketing | 12/31/02 | $6,518,841 | Char Beales, pres. | $540,750 |
| Consumer Electronics Assn. | 12/31/02 | $44,528,209 | Gary Shapiro, pres./CEO | $507,500 |
| Radio Advertising Bureau | 12/31/02 | $7,093,494 | Gary Fries, pres./CEO | $504,0002 |
| Cable TV Laboratories | 12/31/01 | $35,997,963 | Richard Green, pres./CEO | $467,258 |
| Cabletelevision Advertising Bureau | 12/31/02 | $5,583,655 | Joe Ostrow, pres.3 | $444,000 |
| Consumers Union | 5/31/02 | $151,425,767 | James Guest, pres. | $375,886 |
| Syndicated Network Television Assn. | 12/31/02 | $2,711,367 | Eugene A. DeWitt, pres.4 | $375,000 |
| Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers | 12/31/02 | $7,273,836 | John Clark, pres./CEO | $354,092 |
| Assn. of Local Television Stations5 | 12/31/02 | $14,033 | James B. Hedlund, pres. | $340,000 |
| Assn. for Maximum Service Television | 6/30/03 | $2,241,171 | David Donovan, pres. | $340,000 |
| Promax International/BPME | 12/31/01 | $6,607,455 | Glynn Brailsford, pres./CEO6 | $324,499 |
| Public Broadcasting Service7 | 6/30/02 | $529,984,624 | Pat Mitchell, pres./CEO | $315,000 |
| American Women in Radio and Television | 12/31/02 | $390,165 | Maria E. Brennan, exec. dir. | $296,582 |
| National Public Radio | 9/30/02 | $99,257,129 | Kevin Klose, pres./CEO | $288,000 |
| Media Rating Council | 12/31/02 | $729,230 | George W. Ivie, exec. dir. | $284,912 |
| Academy of Television Arts and Sciences | 12/31/01 | $11,309,418 | James Chabin, pres.8 | $275,900 |
| Advanced Television Systems Committee | 12/31/01 | $1,153,876 | Mark Richer, exec. dir. | $250,150 |
| C-SPAN | 3/31/02 | $48,920,741 | Brian Lamb, chairman | $247,872 |
| Satellite Broadcasting. & Communications | 12/31/02 | $4,507,423 | Andrew Wright, pres.9 | $245,000 |
| Radio Television News Directors Assn. | 12/31/02 | $2,393,146 | Barbara Cochran, pres. | $217,167 |
| Broadcasters' Foundation10 | 12/31/03 | $1,224,242 | Gordon H. Hastings, pres. | $200,000 |
| Cable in the Classroom | 12/31/02 | $2,075,448 | Margaret H. O'Brien, exec. dir. | $195,091 |
| National Cable TV Center & Museum | 12/31/02 | $4,822,159 | James B. O'Brien, pres./CEO11 | $190,000 |
| Corporation for Public Broadcasting | 9/30/02 | $389,907,273 | Bob Coonrod, pres.12 | $166,232 |
| Nat'l. Academy of TV Arts and Sciences | 8/31/02 | $5,685,830 | Peter O. Price, pres.13 | $162,498 |
| Assn. of Public Television Stations | 6/30/03 | $2,719,689 | John M. Lawson, pres.14 | $153,861 |
| Parents TV Council | 12/31/02 | $5,415,687 | Brent Bozell, III, pres. | $151,513 |
| Media Institute | 12/31/02 | $606,529 | Patrick D. Maines, pres. & trustee | $150,000 |
| Minority Media & Telecommunications Council | 12/31/02 | $139,000 | David E. Honig, exec. dir. | $140,000 |
| Alliance for Better Campaigns | 6/30/02 | $953,251 | Paul Taylor, pres.15 | $132,941 |
| NABET16 | 6/30/03 | NA | John Clark, pres. | $129,574 |
| Media Access Project | 12/31/02 | $553,942 | Andrew J. Schwartzman, pres./CEO | $122,800 |
| Federal Communications Bar Assn. | 6/30/02 | $896,815 | Stanley Zenor, exec. dir. | $110,871 |
| CableTV Public Affairs Assn. | 12/31/02 | $739,511 | Steven R. Jones, exec. dir. | $101,222 |
| Women in Cable and Telecom. | 12/31/02 | $1,588,317 | Benita Fitzgerald Mosley, pres. | $95,998 |
| Consumer Federation of America | 12/31/02 | $870,493 | Stephen Brobeck, exec. dir. | $90,956 |
| Center for Digital Democracy | 12/31/02 | $607,328 | Jeff Chester, exec. dir. | $85,000 |
| Center for Media Education17 | 12/31/02 | $300,813 | Kathryn C. Montgomery, pres. | $81,402 |
| Hollywood Radio and TV Society | 6/30/02 | $550,775 | Gene Herd, exec. dir.18 | $76,950 |
| Alliance for Community Media | 12/31/02 | $546,973 | Bunnie Riedel, exec. dir. | $74,000 |
| Society of Broadcast Engineers | 12/31/02 | $596,024 | John L. Poray, exec. dir. | $69,471 |
| National Council for Families & TV | 12/31/01 | $72,519 | Tricia McLeod Robin, pres. | $60,000 |
| Future of Music Coalition | 12/31/01 | $258,664 | Jennifer Toomey, exec. dir. | $54,000 |
| National Religious Broadcasters | 9/30/02 | $3,052,635 | Wayne Pederson, pres./COO19 | $25,454 |
| Nat'l Assn. for Multi-ethnicity in Communications20 | 12/31/01 | $9,881 | Kathy Johnson, exec. VP | NA |
| Footnotes 1Rick Feldman is now president. | 2Salary is for 2003. | 3Sean Cunningham is now pres./CEO. | 4Mitch Burg is now president. | 5Association folded in 2002. | 6Jim Chabin is now CEO. | 7PBS spent more than $6 million on consulting, research, Web design and software implementation. | 8Todd Leavitt has succeeded Chabin as president/COO. 9Wright resigned Oct. 1. Senior VPs Patricia Andrews and David Murray are interim presidents. | 10Due to a change of accountants, the foundation will file its 2002 and 2003 Form 990s on July 1, 2004. | 11Bob Russo is now president/CEO. | 12Kathleen Cox this summer will replace Coonrod as president/CEO. | 13Executive VP Allan Benish made $182,685. | 14Lawson earned an additional $125,886 during the same period from APTS Action, a lobbying group formed in 2001. | 15Meredith McGehee is now executive director. | 16Data from disclosure filed with Labor Dept. Revenue for Communications Workers of America, which includes NABET, was $135.8 million for year ended June 30, 2002. | 17CME remains a non-profit but closed its Washington office in October, moving most of its project work to American University, where Montgomery is now a communications professor. | 18Dave Ferrara is now executive director | 19Pederson resigned on Feb. 16, 2002. Dr. Frank Wright is now president. | 20Formerly the National Association of Minorities in Communications. This information covers July 1-Dec. 31, 2001, due to a change in accounting period. NAMIC did not respond to phone calls seeking updated tax records. | ||||
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