He served for five years on the board of the American Society of Magazine Editors, most recently as its vice president; for six years on the board of KLRU, Austin's public television station, which he chaired; for nine years on the Austin Film Society board, twice serving as its president; and for eight years on the board of the Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas at Austin.
The station first signed on the air on May 3, 1979 as a satellite of KLRN in San Antonio.
Meanwhile, TXN's news product eventually moved slowly to PBS stations such as Austin's KLRU, giving it reliable carriage but not advertising.
Tom has served on the board of two regional banks and on the board of KLRU, a public television station in Austin, Texas.
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The show is presented by KLRU, a PBS member station in Austin, and in addition to airing there (as of January 2006) the program is airing on Texas PBS stations in Houston, San Antonio, Corpus Christi, Waco, Temple, Lubbock, and the Rio Grande Valley.