His 45 year radio career began during his high school days in Sturgeon Bay where he hosted a half-hour high school program on WOKW radio. He was an air talent from 1960 to 1967 at WDUX, Waupaca, WISM, Madison and stations in Lansing and Wyoming, Michigan. He began his management career with the media giant, Forward Communications, in 1967 as General Manager at WKAU radio in Kaukauna. In 1971 he moved to Wausau and WSAU/WIFC, where he managed those stations until 1985, first for Forward Communications and later as their owner. He later owned and operated WMQA AM/FM, Minocqua, and WHDG-FM, Rhinelander from 1992 until his retirement in 2000. He served 4 years on the WBA Board of Directors, from 1993 to 1997. He also served on the Board of Directors of the National Radio Broadcasters Association and the ABC Radio Network Affiliates.
Dave Raven Ewaskowitz passed away on June 11, 2011.
A true blue Hall Of Famer! I had the pleasure of working for Dave for many years in Wausau! Compassion for radio broadcasting-a great team leader-loyalty to his staff-a wonderful sense of humor! A True Broadcast Legend you will aways be in our hearts-Dave Raven!!
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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.
