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Upload your panoramas at pressconnects.com/myphotos SOUTHERN TIER VIEWS JEFF KELLAM Abaseball field at the Lockheed Martin recreation area in Owego. Brian Sickora, the WSKG chief executive who reinvigorated the Southern public broadcasting outlet by add- i ng news staff and more local program- ing, is leaving to head a public televi- ion network licensed to the University North Carolina. Brian Frey, the director of history and heritage programming, will serve as interim chief while trustees earch for a replacement. ickora, an accountant by training, oined WSKG in 2007 after having served with the Corporation for Public Broadcasting in Washington, D.C. The departing Sickora has been des cribed as a quiet yet effective manager ho re-established the organization on a olid financial footing.

For listeners and viewers of the local public broadcaster, he is best known for trimming the marathon fundraising sessions from more han a weeklong event to a single day. The most recent daylong event, conduct- last month, raised more than $100,000. He also guided the broadcaster into a ew York public television consortium that centralized master control room activities in Syracuse, allowing members of the cooperative to trim expenses by relying on a technology hub that over- aw the broadcast feeds to members. he leaves us in a very good place, we are confident we will find the right said Katherine Fitzgera ld, chairwoman of board of rustees. itzgerald said Sickora was a master a selecting qualified talent, allowing the broadcaster to continue with its success even after his departure.

made a large footprint itzgerald said. ickora will leave on June 27 and ass ume the post as director and general manager of UNC-TV, based in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, on July 1. a good career Sicko ra said Thursday afternoon. I the new post, Sickora will oversee a uch larger network with an annual budget of $25.2 million, according to its 2015 annual report, with $19.6 million in support from the state and individual ontributors. Based on filings with the Internal evenue Service, annual budget in the fiscal year ended June 30, 2015 as $5.8 million.

Follow Jeff Platsky on Twitter Platsky WSKG chief leaves for job in N.C. PROVIDED PHOTO Brian Sickora, president and chief executive of WSKG Public Media, will be leaving the public broadcaster in late June to assume a similar role with the public television network licensed to he University of North Carolina located in Research Triangle Park. Sickora will assume post as director, GM JEFF PLATSKY.