Wisconsin is proud to host the Midwest Regional Broadcasters Clinic, which started 68 years ago. Your WBA has been a partner with SBE chapters in hosting the event for broadcast engineers for many decades. But this year marked the beginning of some big changes to this important event:
–We’ve renamed to the Midwest Regional Broadcasters Clinic to reflect the reach of the event.
–We are now partnered with our friends at the Minnesota Broadcasters Association.
–We added a reception and brought TV engineers in on Tuesday to consolidate the program to two days.
By all indications, these changes were a tremendous hit! We welcomed more than 50 vendors and attendees from 34 states and three foreign countries. Planning is already underway for a bigger and better 2025 Clinic!
During the Clinic your WBA Board, along with some guests, reviewed the WBA’s updated strategic plan. It was an inspiring conversation that produced some impressive ideas for advancing your WBA’s mission for Wisconsin’s broadcasters. Expect to see the fruits of the conversation in the coming months and years.
This issue of the Wisconsin Broadcaster is a big one for us, because it showcases all the activities your WBA does in support of broadcasting in Wisconsin. At the heart of it is “Serving You” which you’ll find in the center of this newsletter. We also print these two pages as fliers that we use throughout the year to share with members, prospective members, and anyone who needs to know what your WBA does for its members. We’re tremendously proud of it, and you should be too. It all happens because of your support of your WBA.
Also featured this month is a list of all the member stations participating in NCSA/PEP. We’d like to extend an extra special THANK YOU to these stations. Participation in this program is what allows us to do the majority of the robust list of activities you see in the “WBA Serving You” document. Again, none of it happens without YOU.
Scholarship season is upon us. Please do what you can to promote these financial opportunities for students. And remember, as part of your WBA’s EEO Assistance Action Plan, you can receive a letter for your public file for participation in the scholarship process. Station managers, we’ll be sending out information on that soon, so watch your inboxes.
Finally, I’d like to recognize only the second mentee to participate in the “MIW Mentoring and Inspiring Women in Wisconsin” program: Kori McKay from NRG Media in Wausau/Stevens Point. Our first mentorship was with Jen Kasper from QueenB Radio and was a huge success. We’re looking forward to working with Kori over the coming year to prepare her for leadership in the future of broadcasting. Congratulations Kori!
For now, thank you all for all you do for your WBA and your communities. Have a safe, fun, and enjoyable fall in Wisconsin!
