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Elizabeth Murphy Burns, Trailblazing Broadcast TV Exec, Dies at 79
Elizabeth Murphy Burns, president and CEO of family-owned broadcasting and media company Morgan Murphy Media for 43 years, has died. She was 79.
In 1998, she testified before a Senate congressional hearing advocating that cable companies should be required to carry digital broadcast signals, helping to advance the transition to HDTV. Despite trends toward corporate consolidation at all levels of media, she believed being family-owned and operated allowed the local properties to be more closely connected to the communities they serve. In a statement about her death, NAB president and CEO Curtis LeGeyt said, “Liz Burns was a trailblazer, a fierce advocate for local broadcasting and a dear friend to me and so many in our industry.
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