In the News
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 the Chair position, Hurwitz succeeds Tom Koser, CEO of Koser Radio Group in Rice Lake, Hayward, and Escanaba/Marquette, MI, who will remain on the Board for one year as ex officio Past Chair.
With Hurwitz now in the leadership position on the board, Dean Maytag, WISN-TV, Milwaukee, was elected Vice-Chair Television and designated Chair-Elect to succeed Hurwitz in 2013.
Kelly Radandt, Woodward Communications, Appleton/Green Bay, was elected Vice Chair Radio, Scott Chorski, WKBT-TV, La Crosse, was elected Treasurer, and Jeff Tyler, Clear Channel Radio, Madison/Milwaukee, was elected Secretary.
Directors elected for two-year terms are: (SE) Scott Lopas, WTKM AM/AM, Hartford; (SW Tom Allen, WKOW-TV, Madison; (NE) Don Grassman, Results Broadcasting, Shawano; and (NW) Dave Booth, WXOW-TV, La Crosse.
Mid-term Directors not facing re-election include: (NW) Dick Record, Family Radio, La Crosse; (NE) Carmelyn Daley, WFRV-TV, Green Bay; and (SE) Steve Wexler, Journal Broadcast Group, Milwaukee.
At-large Directors are appointed by the Board include Nancy Douglass, WLKG-FM, Lake Geneva and Vanessa Younger, WBUW-TV, Madison.
At-large mid-term Directors not facing re-election include: Jon Schweitzer, Midwest Communications, Sheboygan; Mike O’Brien, WCLO/WJVL, Janesville; Nancy Stillwell, Media Institute, Madison (representing our Associate membership); and Malcolm Brett, Wisconsin Public Television/Wisconsin Public Radio (representing non-commercial broadcasting).
As Jeff Tyler was currently mid-term of his SW District Director position and was elected Secretary, Lupita Montoto, LaMovida, WMLV, Madison, fulfill the remainder of Tyler’s unexpired term.
In addition, Roger Utnehmer, DoorCountyDailyNews.com, Sturgeon Bay, who is on the NAB Board holds a seat as an Ex-Officio voting member of the WBA Board, according to WBA bylaws, for the duration of his NAB Board tenure.
