News Archive

  • 2025 WBA Hall of Fame Show available now

    2025 WBA Hall of Fame Show available now

    A half-hour program highlighting four 2025 WBA Hall of Fame inductees is available to view online and available for stations to air. This show features Denise Callaway, Bill Hubbard, Mark Zoromski, and Paul Braun. The show is available to all…

  • YP of the Month is ‘unsung hero’ for station group
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    YP of the Month is ‘unsung hero’ for station group

    An announcer and producer at Woodward Community Media in Appleton, Zach Zelinski, is the WBA Young Professional of the Month for the month of November. The WBA Young Professional of the Month is a nominee for the WBA Young Professional…

  • Guard presents WBA with commemorative coin

    Guard presents WBA with commemorative coin

    WBA President & CEO Michelle Vetterkind on Oct. 24 visited with our longtime partners and friends at the Wisconsin National Guard, including Maj. Gen. Matt Strub and Brig. Gen. Brion Aderman. During the visit, Vetterkind was honored to receive a…

  • Nominations open for WBA Hall of Fame, Local Broadcast Legends

    Nominations open for WBA Hall of Fame, Local Broadcast Legends

    Nominations are now open for the WBA Hall of Fame and the Local Broadcast Legends. The WBA Hall of Fame Committee made a number of changes to the process starting with the 2025 cycle: Nominations for both recognitions must be…

  • 2025 WBA Awards for Excellence Rulebook available now

    2025 WBA Awards for Excellence Rulebook available now

    Hello Wisconsin Broadcasters, On behalf of your WBA Awards Committee, we hope you had a great summer and have been documenting and saving your potential entries for this year’s contest. You are a part of the largest state broadcaster awards…

  • So many job candidates…so little time!

    How do you know you are hiring the right person for the job? Omnia Target Reports will help narrow the field when you are filling sales, engineering, IT or administrative posts. Get a sneak peek of a candidate’s natural job behaviors…

  • Where’s the love for RSS?

    I often wonder why more people don’t use RSS feeds. I once read that about 2 percent of Internet users take advantage of the technology. For me, I can’t imagine life without it. I don’t like to miss anything. It’s one…

  • Divided FCC Okays Auction Procedures

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  • July Pillsbury Advisory – Client Alert

    Cable and Satellite Royalty Claims Due to the Copyright Royalty Board by July 31, 2015 Department of Labor Says Most Workers Are Employees Under FLSA: Ultimate Test Is Economic Dependence

  • Animated GIFs

    Photos are powerful. In fact, I will soon make my case that photos can sometimes be more powerful than videos. Stay tuned for that. But then there are animated GIFs. Early in the life of the Internet they had a…

  • Cable and Satellite Royalty Claims Due to the Copyright Royalty Board by July 31, 2014

    Alert – July 2014 -Communications – Cable and Satellite Royalty Claims

  • WBA Joins In MMTC Designated Hitter Filing

    Your WBA and the other 49 State Broadcasters Associations joined together in filing comments with the FCC in connection with MMTC’s “designated hitter” proposal. Under that proposal, MMTC (Minority Media and Telecommunications Council) is asking the FCC, in essence, to require English language radio and television stations…

  • NOTICE OF NEW ELECTRONIC FILING PROCEDURES FOR TELEVISION CLOSED CAPTIONING EXEMPTION REQUESTS

    By this Notice, the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC’s or Commission’s) Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau (CGB or Bureau), by delegated authority, announces new electronic filing procedures for petitions for exemption from the Commission’s closed captioning requirements for televised video programming.1 On February 24,…

  • Closed Captioning Quality Standards Go Into Effect April 30, 2014

    Closed Captioning Quality Standards Go Into Effect April 30, 2014 The FCC’s Recent Report and Order, Declaratory Ruling and Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking Institutes a New Wave of Compliance Deadlines

  • FCC Public Notice and News Release

    Public Notice – FCC TAKES ACTION TO IMPROVE RETRANSMISSION CONSENT PROCESS FCC News Release FCC ADOPTS TV JSA ATTRIBUTION RULES, BEGINS 2014 MEDIA OWNERSHIP