program director

noun

Radio and Television.

1. a chief executive responsible for selecting and scheduling programs.

Word History and Origins

Origin of program director¹

First recorded in 1950–55

Example Sentences

Nikhil Kumar, program director with the energy policy nonprofit GridLab, said the technology already exists for longer-duration batteries, including through different chemistries such as iron-air batteries, which release energy through oxidation, and flow batteries, which store energy in liquid chemicals that flow through a reactor.

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A documentary producer was hired as the project’s program director and was succeeded by a recent college graduate.

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Nick Kantor, the group’s program director, summed up this big-tent vibe in a closing message that referred to the four keynotes: “An anti-racist scholar, a Republican governor, a legendary environmentalist, and a housing economist walk into the Omni … sounds like the opening of a joke, but this was YIMBYtown 2025!”

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Gonzales-Torres currently works as an academic counselor at a Pasadena City College program supporting formerly incarcerated students and also serves as program director for a permanent affordable housing project in Altadena, and previously interned in Mayor Karen Bass’ administration, she said.

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Still, she mentions Australian actor Craig McLachlan showing up to her dressing room wearing nothing but a “dance belt” to play guitar for her and a suggestion from her label that if she wanted her record to get airplay, she had to go to dinner with a radio program director, “this man old enough to be one of my school teachers.”

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