APT firings raise questions about AETC influence
Longtime Alabama Public Television (APT) executive Allan Pizzato and his deputy and C.F.O. Pauline Howland entered a routine board meeting on June 12 with their jobs, and left without them. They were dismissed by the Alabama Educational Television Commission (AETC), which governs the APT, after a brief "executive session" within the meeting, for what is increasingly looking like a move by the Governor-appointed commission to try to influence the publically chartered network's programming.