His broadcast career of over 45 years began at the 10-watt college radio station at Mankato State College in Minnesota in the mid-1960s. After his college graduation in 1968, he was a teacher in a business college and a part-time radio sales representative in Duluth. He moved to Wisconsin in 1972 in radio sales at WPLY radio in Plymouth. An 11 year stint followed at KFIZ, Fond du Lac, first in sales and then as Sales Manager. In 1984, he became a partner in WTCH/WOWN in Shawano before becoming sole owner in 1993. Since then, he has grown his small market radio empire – Results Broadcasting – to include WOTE/WJMQ in Clintonville, WATK/WACD in Antigo, WYCE in Rhinelander and WJNR-FM, WOBE-FM and WHYO-FM in Iron Mountain, MI. He has been a member of the prestigious International Broadcasters Idea Bank since 1993 and served on the Wisconsin Broadcasters Association Board of Directors from 1992-1996. He currently serves on the Board of the Wisconsin Broadcasters Association Foundation.
Is your dad’s name Donald? If so, I’d like to connect. I am Bob’s daughter Gail and you would be my cousin.
Congratulations to Bruce & his family for all that you have accomplished.
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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.
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