His thirty-one year broadcasting career began in 1939 when, after receiving his master’s degree in foreign relations from the University of Chicago, he joined his family’s radio station, WKBH in La Crosse as a foreign affairs reporter. In 1943, he became President and General Manager of WKBH. In 1954, he put La Crosse’s first television station, WKBT-TV, on the air and was its first President and General Manager. He led both of those stations until his retirement in 1970. He was active in church affairs in La Crosse and served sixteen years on the Board of Directors of Viterbo College in La Crosse. In 1981, he received the Pope John XXIII Award for lay service to the Viterbo College. He also served on the Board of Directors of the Wisconsin Broadcasters Association and was President of the Association in 1968-69.
Howard Dahl passed away on November 6, 1989.
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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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