The Wisconsin Broadcasters Association Foundation is proud to announce the 2024 WBA Hall of Fame inductees:
Steve Brown is a career broadcast engineer with a reputation for giving back and thinking of the future. (Woodward Community Media, Appleton)
Matt Lepay is the voice of the UW-Badgers Football and Men’s Basketball teams and has been for 35 years.
Patty Loew led a long, successful career in academics and broadcasting while drawing attention to Native American issues.
Dave Robinson is a livelong broadcaster who’s served his communities and industry in so many ways. (Robinson Corp, Viroqua)
The 2024 Hall of Fame honorees will be celebrated the night of June 20 at the 2024 Summer Conference at Hotel Retlaw in Fond du Lac.
The Wisconsin Broadcasters Hall of Fame was created in 1989 to honor broadcasters that have devoted a minimum of 25 years to the broadcasting industry. Nominees aree evaluated based on their “integrity, leadership, and impact on their station(s), communities served, and the state of Wisconsin broadcast industry.”
The first 12 members of the Hall of Fame were inducted during the 1989 WBA Summer Conference. Since 1989, 160 outstanding broadcasters have been honored with Hall of Fame inductions.
Inductees are chosen each year from nominations by WBA members, family members and friends. Broadcasters who have been inducted into the Hall of Fame include managers, personalities, engineers, reporters, educators and those broadcasting pioneers who were all of the above.
In October 1989, Alfred C. Sykes, then Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, came to Wisconsin to formally dedicate a Hall of Fame display, including plaques honoring the inductees, at the State Historical Society of Wisconsin Library in Madison. In 2010, due to remodeling of the SHSW facility, the display was removed and put in storage.
The display now resides at the Hilton Milwaukee City Center. The Wisconsin Broadcasters Hall of Fame also has a permanent, virtual display at the online Wisconsin Museum of Broadcasting which debuted in 2009 at www.wisconsinbroadcastingmuseum.org, where the Wisconsin Broadcasters Hall of Fame Gallery is one of our major attractions.
The 2024 Hall of Fame honorees will be celebrated the night of June 20 at the 2024 Summer Conference at Hotel Retlaw in Fond du Lac.
