O. Leonard Press has served as the executive director of the Kentucky Authority for Educational Television since 1963. He has also been Interim director for newly-created Broadcast Facilities Program for the U.S. Office of Education in 1963; head of the Department of Radio, Television, Films, and director of broadcasting service at the University of Kentucky from 1958 to 1963; consultant for national educational radio and television; former instructor at the Boston Center for Continuing Education and Emerson College; Chairman at the National Association of Educational Broadcasters in 1973; former vice-chairman of the National Association of Public Television Stations; chairman for the Public Television Managers Council in 1972; and former chairman of the Southern Educational Communications Association. He is active in various other public and educational television groups. He is also a Board member for the Agency for Instructional Telecommunications.