Albert E. Rose | TV manager, 70

Albert E. Rose, 70, a former manager at WCAU-TV in Philadelphia and at the New Jersey Network, died of lung cancer Wednesday, June 16, in the hospice of Chandler Hall, a retirement community in Newtown Township, Bucks County.

Born in Pittsburgh, Mr. Rose earned a bachelor's degree in history at the University of Pennsylvania in 1961 and graduated in 1962 from the Annenberg School for Communication, where he was a lecturer for 20 years.

Mr. Rose began at WCAU-TV (now NBC10) in 1962, when it was a CBS affiliate, and worked as a production assistant, associate producer, and assistant director in public affairs.

In 1972, he became manager of budgets there and in 1973 he was appointed manager of production and program administration. He left in 1976 as executive producer.

At the public broadcasting station NJN, Mr. Rose was program manager from 1977 to 1980, responsible for programming, production, and operations. From 1980 to 1991 he was program director there.

In 1990, his wife, Valerie, said, his documentary Mozart in Montclair won a Golden Eagle Award from the organization CINE.

In 1991 Mr. Rose organized the Program Resources Group of public TV stations, which, his wife said, negotiated with foreign producers of series and specials. He retired in 2008.

Mr. Rose helped organize the Center for Literacy, a volunteer tutoring program in Philadelphia founded in 1968, and was its board chairman in the 1970s, his wife said.

He was a member of the National Association of Television Program Executives and of the Eastern Educational Network Program Council.

He is survived only by his wife. Services were private.