WFRV-TV General Sales Manager Jim (Arnie) Arneson will retire at the end of March.
Arneson started his career in broadcasting in 1982 at WCGV in Milwaukee as a local account executive and then spent a three-year national stint with Blair in New York. He returned to his native Milwaukee in 1987 to serve at WCGV/WVTV. For more than 15 years he held multiple roles from local seller to director of sales in Milwaukee.
In 2007 he left broadcasting briefly to be engaged in his daughter’s high school years in Door County where he worked for five years as a rigging specialist for a yacht company in Sister Bay. He also got certified and volunteered as a paramedic.
He returned to broadcasting in 2012 joining WFTV-TV in Green Bay where he spent the last 13 years, and the last ten as general sales manager.
A statement from WFRV-TV congratulated Arneson and described him as a valued leader and great friend to all at the station.
