Green Bay broadcasting pioneer who guided the fortunes of WTAQ (later WBAY and WGEE) radio for 28 years. He put Green Bay’s first television station, WBAY-TV, on the air in 1953 and later oversaw the development of a third sister station, WBAY-FM in 1960.
Haydn Evans passed away in 1974.
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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Mr. Evans and his wife, Cecil, were our neighbors on South Quincy Street, many years ago. They were our parents best friends, and their daughters were friends of ours, also. I have four vivid memories of WBAY at that time. One was watching occasional basketball teams, including the Harlem Glovetrotters (if my memory is correct). The second was watching one of the first, if not the very first, T.V. show broadcast in color. It was the live-action musical, “Cinderella.” The third was being a participant on Russ Widoe’s (“Colonel Caboose”) quiz show! The fourth was meeting the cowboy hero, Gene Autry (and I believe we met his horse, Champion, also)! I have lots of good memories of those days. I didn’t realize Mr. Evans was such a pioneer in Green Bay television history!