Fred Esplin

Fred Esplin recently retired from the University of Utah, where he was manager of KUED (PBS Utah) for many years before becoming Vice President for Institutional Advancement. He began his public broadcasting career with PBS in Washington DC, then WITF-TV-FM in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania before returning to Utah. Fred has served on the boards of PBS, the Trust for Public Lands, the Utah Humanities Council, the Utah Arts Council, the Utah Shakespeare Festival, and the Zion Canyon Mesa. He was executive producer of several public television programs and has published in the Salt Lake Tribune, Utah Journalism Review, Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Public Telecommunications Review, and the New York Times. Fred is a native of southern Utah and president of his family’s cattle company, whose ranch above Zion National Park has been placed in a conservation easement.