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Sylvia Bugg, PBS Chief Programming Executive, Dies at 55

PBS CEO Paula Kerger announced Sunday that PBS Chief Programming Executive and General Manager for General Audience Programming Sylvia Bugg died “unexpectedly this weekend. ” Bugg was 55.

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PBS CEO Paula Kerger announced Sunday that PBS Chief Programming Executive and General Manager for General Audience Programming Sylvia Bugg died “unexpectedly this weekend.” Bugg was 55. “We are deeply shocked and saddened to that Sylvia Bugg, PBS’s Chief Programming Executive and General Manager for General Audience Programming, passed away unexpectedly this weekend,” Kerger said in a statement Sunday.

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