Arthur J. Singer is a career broadcaster, communications and management consultant, author, and speaker. He speaks widely on the history of film, theaters, and the movie going experience over the past twelve decades
Singer was born and raised in Boston’s Dorchester area in the 1940’s and 1950’s and graduated from the Boston Public Schools. From an early age, he was attracted to the arts and media of the city, from its seven daily newspapers to its diverse local radio stations and pioneering TV stations to its movie houses, theaters, and concert halls.
He spent 30 years in the public broadcasting industry as a producer, director, fund raiser, and station executive. He was CEO of New Hampshire Public Television for fourteen years. For many of those years He also served as Chair of the Organization of State Broadcasting Executives, a Trustee of the Association of Public Television Stations and as a consultant to public radio and TV stations nationwide for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
He later became Associate Vice President for TV, Radio, and Film Production at Emerson College in Boston and served as Board President of the Boston Neighborhood Network community access TV stations.
He is the Founding President of the Massachusetts Broadcasters Hall of Fame organization and continues to serve on its Board.
Singer is author of the recent book Boston’s Downtown Movie Palaces (Arcadia Publishing 2012). He is also the author of Arthur Godfrey: Adventures of an American Broadcaster (McFarland 2000) and was executive producer of the A&E Biography “Arthur Godfrey: Broadcasting’s Forgotten Giant”).
Singer holds two degrees from Boston University, a BS in Marketing and Advertising and an MS in Communications and is the recipient of a Distinguished Alumnus Award from his alma mater for Distinguished Service to Profession. He served in the United States Army (Reserves) and received an Honorable Discharge.
