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2026 WBA Awards for Excellence Rulebook available now
Hello Wisconsin Broadcasters, On behalf of your WBA Awards Committee, we hope you have had a great first half of the year, and that you have been saving your potential entries for this year’s contest. You are a part of the largest state broadcaster awards program in the nation, and we can’t wait to see…
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Ambassador program extends to second UW campus
The WBA campus ambassador program is expanding to a second campus after its pilot year at UW-Oshkosh. Two students at UW-Whitewater will serve as WBA ambassadors starting in the fall semester. The ambassador program was launched in 2025 on the UW-Oshkosh campus with two students: Dylan Przybylski and Jacob Link. The students acted as representatives…
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Wisconsin Broadcaster available now
The September/October issue of Wisconsin Broadcaster is now available. Highlights from this issue:
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Shockleys establish Young Broadcasters Development Fund
WBA Hall of Famers Terry and Sandy Shockley are the founding grantors of the newly established Young Broadcasters Development Fund, aimed at inspiring career building in the broadcast industry. “Our mission with this fund is to inspire and motivate young people to pursue a career in broadcasting,” Terry and Sandy Shockey said. “The rewards are…
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Student scholarship competition underway
Do you know a student who could use assistance with educational expenses? The Wisconsin Broadcasters Association Foundation offers three $2,500 scholarships and one $1,500 scholarship. Students who meet eligibility requirements are encouraged to apply for these scholarships. The application process is online. It’s available on the WBA website at wi-broadcasters.org/scholarships Students who have completed at…
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Wisconsin Broadcaster available now
The January/February issue of the Wisconsin Broadcaster is now available. You can download it here [PDF]. Highlights from his issue: WBA Chair Don Vesely writes about appreciating your employees WBA President and CEO Michelle Vetterkind shares ideas for getting involved Summit focused on helping radio with streaming video WBA Award for Excellence entries due…
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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. …
