A major figure in sports radio broadcasting in Wisconsin, Haig began his career in advertising sales in 1954 at WFOX, Waukesha. He was subsequently involved in sales, sales management and general management at WRTI and WTMJ in Milwaukee, and he eventually served as general manager of WIGL-AM, Superior/Duluth, as well as at WTMJ-AM in Milwaukee. It was during his sixteen-year tenure at WTMJ that the station developed its strong sports image and became the flagship station for broadcast networks for the Milwaukee Brewers baseball, the Milwaukee Bucks basketball, the Green Bay Packers football and the University of Wisconsin Badger football and basketball teams. In 1980 he left the active management of broadcasting to join the Milwaukee Brewers Baseball Club as that organization’s vice president of broadcast. For seventeen years he oversaw all production, advertising sales and networking facets of the Brewer broadcast networks. He was active in professional service as well, participating as long-time member of Milwaukee Sales and Marketing Executive Association and serving three years as a member of the Board of Directors of the International Sales and Marketing Executives Association.
Bill Haig passed away on April 6, 2013.
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The Wisconsin Broadcasters Hall of Fame was created in 1989 to honor those broadcasters who have devoted their careers to broadcasting and its development in Wisconsin, to recognize their outstanding service to broadcasting, their communities, and their state, over at least a fifteen-year career in the industry, at least ten of which were served in Wisconsin.The first twelve members of the Hall of Fame were inducted during the 1989 WBA Summer Conference. Inductees are chosen each year from among nominations by WBA members. Broadcasters who have been inducted into the Hall of Fame include managers, personalities, engineers, reporters and those broadcasting pioneers who were at once all of the above.
In October, 1989, Alfred C. Sykes, then Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, came to Wisconsin to formally dedicate a Hall of Fame display, including plaques honoring the inductees, at the State Historical Society of Wisconsin Library in Madison. In 2010, due to remodeling of the SHSW facility, the display was removed. The Hall of Fame exhibit was relocated to the Hilton Milwaukee City Center in 2015 and enhanced with a touchscreen display featuring all inductee commemorative videos.
