Survey: Key radio listening locations – the home, the car, and at-work – are changing
In Jacobs Media’s new web study of radio listeners, a big story is how radio’s traditional listening locations – the home, the car, and the workplace – are undergoing change. From content consumed to new distribution outlets to emerging gadgetry, the…
4 new names to be added to WBA Foundation Hall of Fame
The Wisconsin Broadcasters Hall of Fame was created in 1989 to honor broadcasters that have devoted a minimum of 15 years to the broadcasting industry including a minimum of 10 years as a Wisconsin broadcaster. The award recognizes an individual’s…
4 broadcasters to receive WBA Local Broadcast Legends Awards
Four Wisconsin Broadcasters have been chosen as WBA Local Broadcast Legends and will be recognized during the Keynote Luncheon on Thursday, June 15 as part of the WBA’s Summer Conference. The Wisconsin Broadcasters Association Local Broadcast Legends Award was established…
Media mentors should support student travel
It was a typical, sticky April in rural Arkansas back in 2004. I had traveled 300 miles from home once with my parents on vacation all the way to Graceland. Now, I was in a car bound for DFW. The…
WBA reaching out to diverse communities
The WBA is initiating an effort to reach out to Wisconsin’s diverse communities. While you will hear much more about this effort in the coming months, we’re already getting started. Lupita Montoto from La Movida in Madison translated our “Your…
Radio network raises $377K to help homeless
The Family radio network, 91.9/91.5 and 88.5 in Appleton, helped raise $377,000 worth of new hygiene and cleaning products to donate to local crisis programs in 15 northeast and central Wisconsin communities. In its 25th year, “Help for the Homeless”…
Getting media into the home with Alexa
The past fifteen years have about incredible disruption to broadcasters. It used to be so simple – you created a 24-hour stream of programming, sent it out from your tower to a specific broadcast area, generated ratings, and you were…
WBA Awards Gala sold out
The WBA Awards Gala, scheduled for May 6 at the Madison Marriott West, is sold out. The reception will begin at 5 p.m. with an open bar until 5:45 p.m. While drinks are complimentary only during the reception, there…
Chippewa Valley broadcaster dies
A lifelong broadcaster with a career in the Chippewa Valley has died. Michael Anthony Phillips was born in Tennessee and started his broadcasting career in college, getting his first full time job in 1970 at WDGY in Minneapolis. According to…
