Celebrating 60 years of service to Michigan Broadcasters |
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Volume 24, Issue 1 |
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January 2009 |
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© 2009 - The Michigan Association of Broadcasters WE SERVE OUR MEMBERS BY HELPING THEM TO BETTER SERVE THEIR COMMUNITIES |
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David Martin, Media Arts & Sciences
MANAGEMENT: Meet the Millennials: Managing a Transformative Generation
The MAB DTV Team was busy on January 12 a Congressman John Conyers (D-14th) held a town hall meeting at Wayne County Community College. Special guest of honor was FCC Commissioner Michael Copps who told a packed room that Congress should consider delaying the February 17 digital transition date.
by Diane Kniowski, Chairman, Michigan Association of Broadcasters and President/General Manager, WOOD-TV/WOTV-TV, Grand Rapids
Share your opinion with fellow broadcasters throughout the state in this new MAB E-Newsletter feature. We'll publish answers to this question in our February issue plus present another question to broadcasters in Michigan.
by John Gingas, Financial Technology, Inc. 
Governor Jennifer Granholm will give her seventh State of the State address to a joint session of the Legislature on Tuesday, February 3.The annual address will take place that day at 7 p.m. from the House chambers. While the address will contain Ms. Granholm's proposals for the upcoming year, the economy is expected to be a major focus.
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President Barack Obama intends to nominate Julius Genachowski to head the FCC, several sources close to the Obama transition team have indicated. A former classmate of Barack Obama, 46-year-old Genachowski previously worked at the FCC during the Clinton Administration.
Reserve your booth now for the 2009 GLBC Career Fair on Wednesday, March 11 from 1:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. The Career Fair will once again take place during the 2009 Great Lakes Broadcasting Conference & Expo at the DeVos Place in Downtown Grand Rapids. Attend and meet hundreds of potential employees and interns.
The MAB Foundation is seeking donated items for the 2009 Online Auction. Past items for bidding included football tickets, vacation packages and priceless experiences. This fundraiser will once again raise money to benefit future broadcast scholarships and educational programs. The 2008 program raised more than $1,500!
Cumulus Media's WWWW-FM teamed up with Key Bank, U.S. Marine Corps and Washtenaw County Toys For Tots organization and brought smiles and over 2400 toys to local children just in time for Christmas! The station's Crusade for Kids campaign ran from December 15 to December 20.
Citadel's WDVD-FM/Detroit received record-breaking contributions during its 3rd annual "Stuff-A-Bus" campaign. Station listeners donated more than 15,000 toys to benefit local support agencies with Christmas gifts for children.
With challenging economic conditions in the Motor City, the CBS Radio stations in Detroit brainstormed for ways for their stations could build good will in the community. A group inside the station, led by Jay Jennings, general sales manager of WYCD-FM, and Tim Roberts, WYCD-FM program director, came up with "Stand Up Be Proud".
CBS Radio's WWJ-AM/Detroit is hosting the Sixth Annual Winter Survival Radiothon for THAW (The Heat And Warm Fund) on February 6-7 at MotorCity Casino Hotel. The theme for this year's Radiothon is a play on casino lingo, urging people of Southeast Michigan to "Chip In" for emergency energy assistance.
On January 13, Freedom Broadcasting's WWMT-TV/Kalamazoo hosted an all-day phone-a-thon to encourage parents to sign up to MIChild, a low-cost state health insurance program that provides medical, dental and vision coverage to eligible children 18 years old and younger.
Kim Walsh, Director of the Detroit Radio Information Service (DRIS) at WDET, was among a select group honored at the Wonder Vision Awards during a private reception January 9 at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
WKAR-TV offered a video holiday greeting to the community this December with the premiere of "Songs of the Season", produced with the MSU Children’s Choir.
Northern Michigan University's WNMU-TV/Marquette is currently presenting the 14th annual "Reading Rainbow Young Writers and Illustrators Contest". The contest is for children from kindergarten to third grade who are encouraged to write and illustrate their own stories.
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