ATHENS, Ohio -- WOUB Radio and Television will host an annual Global Town Hall featuring world class business and thought leaders on Thursday, April 10, from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m. Called MainEvent 2003, the free event will be held in the RTVC Building on the campus of Ohio University, Television Studio A (fifth floor). Through its unique, interactive program format, MainEvent is the world's pre-eminent forum in showcasing women leaders and continues to inspire and enlighten women and men all over the world.

This day of provocative, highly dynamic conversations delivers the world's greatest leaders to top businesses and colleges at hundreds of sites in multiple countries. MainEvent participants themselves actively engage in shaping life-enhancing and company-changing dialogue so they'll have the tools they need to act on the ideas discussed.

Confirmed speakers include Steve Ballmer, CEO, Microsoft; Margot Cairnes, CEO, Change Dynamic; Carla Cico, CEO, Brasil Telecom; Maxine Clark, founder and chief executive Bear, Build-A-Bear; Esther Dyson, chairman, EDventure Holdings; Joe Forehand, CEO, Accenture; General James Jones, Commandant, US Marine Corps; Mary Minnick, EVP, Coca Cola; Yukako Uchinaga, managing director, IBM Japan; and more (visit www.wf360.com).

Topics to be discussed are: new strategies for igniting innovation; disturbing the equilibrium of the past - winning strategies for life in challenging times; the ultimate paradox - becoming more adaptable in order to be resilient; making global and local work - personally and professionally; and "Is 'ethical business' an oxymoron? How should business be done?

WOUB's local panel consists of: Jennifer Lawson, executive producer and former PBS executive vice president for programming and promotion; Traci Currie, doctoral student in the university's School of Telecommunications; Diane McVey, audiologist and former president of the Athens Chamber of Commerce; and Michael Bugeja, professor and author from the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism.

For more information or to register, call Kristina Kennedy at WOUB by April 5 at (740) 593-4951 or e-mail kristina_kennedy@woub.pbs.orgThe Ohio University Telecommunications Center, a unit of the College of Communication, operates two television stations?WOUB-TV/Channel 20 in Athens and WOUC-TV/Channel 44 in Cambridge?one cable channel?WOUB II, and six radio stations?WOUB-1340 AM, WOUB-91.3 FM, WOUC-89.1 FM, WOUH-91.9 FM, WOUL-89.1 FM and WOUZ-90.1 FM. The Center, a trusted community resource, uses the power of noncommercial television, radio and other media, such as the World Wide Web, to enrich the lives of children and adults in southeastern Ohio, western West Virginia, and eastern Kentucky through quality programs and educational services that inform, enlighten, inspire, and entertain.