As head of Journal Radio Group, he led a multi-market operation through significant industry change and later oversaw its successful April 2015 sale to The E.W. Scripps Co.
Then, there’s the 63-year-old man who was bit with the Radio bug in 1976 by helping his church raise funds for a summer camp through an on-air auction who today oversees a privately held group of 22 broadcast radio brands and three low-power TV stations known as Magnum Media.
They are among the four 2026 inductees into the Wisconsin Broadcasters Association Hall of Fame, honored last night at the WBA Summer Conference in Lake Geneva, Wisc.