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Hurwitz Elected WBA Board Chair
New Officers & Directors Elected At Annual Meeting

Bill Hurwitz, VP General Manager of the Milwaukee Radio Alliance, is the new Chair of the Wisconsin Broadcasters Association’s Board of Directors. He assumed the Chair position at the annual meeting during the recent WBA Winter Conference.

Bill was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Bill’s radio career has been entirely in Milwaukee starting in 1975 at the MIGHTY 92 WOKY as a very green Account Executive. After 6 years, Bill moved on to WISN and ultimately became the Director of Sales for the Hearst radio combo from 1981 to 1996. In 1996 Bill joined forces with Hall of Fame NFL and Green Bay Packer great Willie Davis as his National sales Manager for All Pro Broadcasting (WLUM WMCS). Willie Davis’s group merged with Shamrock Communications (WLDB) forming the Milwaukee Radio Alliance and Bill was then running the National Sales Organization for all the stations in Milwaukee, Northeast Pennsylvania, Tulsa Oklahoma, Baltimore Md. and Riverside/San Bernardino California. In 2003 Bill was asked the run the Milwaukee properties as the VP and General Manager. Bill is married to Lynn for 39 years, has two daughters, two son in laws, and four of the most beautiful grandchildren in the world!

In reading all of the surveys (and in listening to attendees’ comments that day), the WBA’s 2012 Winter Conference & State Legislative Day turned out to be a definite success! The first sign of success were the positive comments about our new venue (okay - maybe not their parking garage :). You’ll be happy to know that we have already booked the Concourse for 2013. Attendees were also greeted with a “Proud Member of the WBA” decal to put on the door back at the station (part of the WBA’s Long Range Plan - under the Advocacy Module). You’ll be...

WHAT AN HONOR! To serve as your Chair in 2012. I would like to start by congratulating your outgoing chair, Mr. Tom Koser for an excellent job representing the radio stations and television stations throughout our great state of Wisconsin. Tom had an agenda for his term a year ago and can walk away knowing our association is stronger than when he started, more focused than when he started, and is no doubt in a better place today than it was a year ago. Moving forward, we can still get better and my pledge to you is we will. On...