Ann Arnold, the longtime president of the Texas Association
of Broadcasters who served as press secretary to Gov. Mark White, the first
woman to hold that post, died Saturday after a decades-long battle against
leukemia, according to a story by Mike Ward at statesman.com. She was 67.
She was found dead at her office.
Arnold, who previously had an award-winning career as a
newspaper reporter, had headed the broadcast industry group since 1987, during
a time of sweeping change in that business from cable to phone to Internet
service.
During her tenure she pushed for advancements in the
emergency alert system and lobbied for legislation that guaranteed viewers
would receive all FCC-licensed broadcast stations.
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