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Podcast: The State of Spanish Radio: Its Future and Relevance
Monica Armenta (NM Broadcasters Assoc.) is joined by SDC Broadcasting’s Matt Martinez and Radio Ink and RBR+TVBR publisher Deborah Parenti to talk about Spanish-language radio; its growth, its challenges, and why it’s one of the most vibrant and resilient sectors of broadcasting.
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WBA joins DC fly-in to keep AM radio in every vehicle
Your WBA was in Washington D.C. this week, along with broadcasters representing 30 other states, to call on Congress to pass the AM Radio for Every Vehicle Act. The bills in both houses of Congress have overwhelming bipartisan support. The House bill has more than 300 cosponsors and the Senate bill has 60 cosponsors. Broadcasters…
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YP of the Month ‘excels in leadership’
A producer at WEAU-TV in Eau Claire, Melanie Walleser, is the WBA Young Professional of the Month for the month of July. The WBA Young Professional of the Month is a nominee for the WBA Young Professional of the Year Award. The award seeks to recognize young broadcasters who have made a significant impact on…
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Jowett Fellowship recipient wants radio to excel with video
A multimedia videographer at Woodward Community Media is the recipient of the Rick Jowett Fellowship. Logan O’Leary says while Woodward has a strong radio tradition, they’re forging a new path forward to also making it a reliable video production company. As the sole videographer for the company, he wants to grow the effort into a…
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WBA Foundation announces date for gubernatorial debate
The WBA Foundation Board will continue its 36-year tradition of holding statewide televised debates for Wisconsin’s voters by airing a general election debate in the 2026 Wisconsin gubernatorial race. Qualifying gubernatorial candidates will be invited to participate in a debate on Oct. 9 at 7 p.m., hosted by Milwaukee PBS. Radio and television stations from…
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6 digital trends that will affect broadcasters (and all of us) in 2022
As we are writing this, our plan is to head out to the CES (once known as the Consumer Electronics Show) in Las Vegas the first week of January. For the last dozen years, we have used this event as our annual tone-setter for the year ahead. Hopefully, the omicron variant won’t sabotage our plans.…
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WBA Hall of Famer Terry Baun remembered for long engineering career
WBA Hall of Famer Terry Baun died Saturday. He was 74. Known to all as Terry, his broadcast career started in 1967 at Milwaukee’s classical music station, WFMR-FM. After ten years there, he began a series of moves into corporate engineering, while also forming his own consulting firm, Criterion Broadcast Services, in Milwaukee. Through the…
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Dukelow leaving WHBY
Josh Dukelow is leaving WHBY in Appleton after almost six years in radio. WHBY hired Dukelow in 2016 to host ‘Fresh Take with Josh Dukelow,’ with the goal of sharing conversations and topics important to the people of Wisconsin, all with a nonpartisan perspective. “When WHBY invited me to develop a new local talk show,…
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Beunling to end 25 years in TV meteorology
WAOW-TV meteorologist Mike Breunling is retiring after 25 years in the business. His last weathercast is Friday. Breunling worked more than seven years at WAOW-TV in Wausau and more than 17 years before that at WSAW-TV, also in Wausau. In a blog post announcing his retirement, Beunling wrote that his interest in meteorology started at…
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Sinclair stations raise nearly $175K for tornado relief
Sinclair Broadcast Group reports nearly $175,000 was raised through Sinclair Cares: Tornado Relief, a partnership with the American Red Cross to assist those affected by the devastating tornadoes in the South and Midwest. Individual donations totaled nearly $150,000, with Sinclair providing a corporate donation of $25,000, bringing the total raised to nearly $175,000. A focused…
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Station gathers food, toys, cash for La Crosse area
A La Crosse TV station gathered 2,567 pounds of food, 804 toys and $19,237 were collected to benefit the Salvation Army, Hunger Task Force, and Toys for Tots in the La Crosse area. News 8 Now (WKBT-TV) worked with Festival Foods and Castle Realty on its second annual “Joy of Sharing” event in Onalaska. Last…
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Needles to retire in March
After more than 30 years of covering all sports spanning Wisconsin and beyond, long-time WISN 12 sports director Dan Needles will be retiring. Effective March 4, Needles will end his television career – recognized as an award-winning sports anchor and reporter who has been broadcasting the most significant sports stories in Wisconsin history. “When sports…
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Wisconsin kids invited to call in to Santa on WPR Christmas Eve
About 30 years ago Santa Claus landed his sleigh on top of Vilas Hall, the home of Wisconsin Public Radio (WPR), on the University of Wisconsin – Madison campus. Santa had agreed to be a guest on WPR’s popular “The Larry Meiller Show” to take calls and questions from kids around the state. Host Larry…
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Weekly Radio Addresses focused on workforce development
This week’s Weekly Radio Addresses from Wisconsin’s Capitol discuss regional workforce development projects. These addresses are available for Wisconsin broadcasters to use as they see fit. Here are the summaries from WisPolitics: — In this week’s Democratic radio address, Gov. Tony Evers highlighted his nearly $60 million investment in 12 new regional workforce development projects. …
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Big Radio listeners come through during fundraisers
The stations of Big Radio concluded their annual holiday charity fundraising events on Dec. 10 with results that will help their local communities in southern Wisconsin. Station in the group include WCLO 1230AM, 105.9 WWHG, WJVL 99.9 FM, 101.9 WGEZ and 92.3, and 98.9 WBEL (The Beat). The events included an online auction of items…
