PBS Board approves John Bundy appointment as chief executive

John Bundy has been formally appointed CEO of the Public Broadcasting Services.

The appointment, reportedly by secret vote, was confirmed by PBS in a statement.

The PBS directors thanked Anton Attard, who had served PBS as CEO fir the past six years. “Attard ensured PBS increases its popularity from one year to the other, as audience ratings and our financial figures clearly show.”

A new managerial structure will now see John Bundy as CEO and Charles Dalli as deputy CEO, who will report to the chairman of the board of directors.

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Anton Attard who was appointed by the previous government in August 2010. Attard was involved in the Nationalist Party’s election campaign in 2008 and ran Net TV.

John Bundy was a PN election candidate in 1996 but more recently was associated with Labour by way of his migration to One TV and having had provided a soft endorsement of Joseph Muscat during the 2013 election campaign.