Navigating Public Media Distribution

Kate Kelly is Senior Director of National Project Management at WETA and serves as a project executive or executive producer on numerous multiplatform productions for national PBS audiences. Since joining WETA in 2005, Kate has worked on more than 120 national public media projects produced by WETA, spanning a wide range of genres — from health, news, and public affairs to history, culture, and performance — including many award-winning projects and top-rated documentaries and series on PBS.

Angela “Angie Ange” Hailstorks is a former nationally syndicated radio host turned multi-media executive currently serving as Director of Content at WHUT- Howard University Television PBS. A graduate of Howard University and Prince George’s County, MD native, Angie has created original content with an emphasis on local storytelling across multiple platforms.

Notably, Angie co-created AMPD 365, a digital-first artist performance platform that amassed a following of over 100k and reach of over a million impressions, which led to partnerships with META. Angie also created WHUT’s digital-first local storytelling series Decades, which has over a million impressions across digital platforms. Angie has executive produced numerous original programs for WHUT, including The Golden Year: Howard Women’s Basketball, Who’s The REAL HU? and Beyond The Water: Howard University Swimming & Diving Team in partnership with MPT’s HBCU WEEK NOW initiative.

Angie continues to use her brand equity in the Washington, DC market and beyond to amplify WHUT, public media, and storytellers while leading the charge for traditional media to innovate in digital spaces.

Devin Karambelas is Vice President of TV Programming at WETA, the PBS station serving the greater Washington, DC region.

Troy Mosley joined MPT in the fall of 2022 as managing director of the statewide public television network’s Content Division. Mr. Mosley manages the full range of MPT-produced regional and national content, both broadcast and digital, and supervises an award-winning team of producers and production staff. He brings to MPT extensive experience managing and producing large-scale television content ranging from news and public affairs programs to music and variety specials, concerts, sporting events, and awards shows. Mr. Mosley came to MPT from WETA in Washington, D.C., where he contributed his talents in a variety of production and management capacities during nearly a decade with the public TV station. His assignments at WETA included co-managing the weekly live broadcasts of Washington Week and managing performance specials and packaging documentaries for air, such as Korea: The Never-Ending War, Making Black America, and The Black Church: This is Our Story, This is Our Song. Prior to that assignment, he served for 10 years as a producer, supervising producer, production manager, and executive producer at Viacom/BET Networks, working on a wide range of national and international music and awards shows, including the 5 0 t h Anniversary of the Selma to Montgomery March & Music Special, The Soul Train Awards, the S a i n t Lucia Jazz Festival, and the Cayman Jazz Festival. He has also operated his own companies, Laureate Media and Positive Pictures, to provide production services for organizations staging live television events. Early in his career, Mr. Mosley worked at America Online as one of the original digital media producers for AOL’s news, sports, and weather channels. Mr. Mosley is a graduate of Southern University and A&M College, an historically Black college and university (HBCU) in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He resides in Bowie, Maryland with his wife and family.

Michael E. Tang is the Director of PBS Plus, a syndicated programming service from the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) for public television stations across the United States.

Leading PBS Plus content programming and strategy, Michael oversees the national distribution of AUSTIN CITY LIMITS, THIS OLD HOUSE, REEL SOUTH, MOTORWEEK, and many other programs viewers already know and enjoy.

Michael is a member of the Producers Guild of America.

Prior to joining PBS, Michael worked as a producer on projects including the Disney+ original docuseries THE IMAGINEERING STORY, the Netflix-distributed LEAGUE OF LEGENDS ORIGINS, and the Netflix-distributed ELLA BRENNAN: COMMANDING THE TABLE.