Wisconsin Broadcasters Association Honors Four

Honored

Congrats to four WISCONSIN broadcasters who have been chosen as WBA Local Broadcast Legends and will be recognized during the Keynote Luncheon at the WBA SUMMER CONFERENCE at the OSTHOFF RESORT in ELKHART LAKE on JUNE 13th.

The 2019 recipients are as follows:

• DUFF DAMOS, who has had a long career in radio, as PD and hosting mornings on WIFC/WAUSAU for 17 years, hosting afternoons on WHDG/RHINELANDER and for the last 17 years hosting afternoons on WRLO/ANTIGO. He is also OM for the NRG MEDIA 6-station NORTHWOODS cluster.
• JERRY BURKE, who spent 34 years of his career at WBAY-TV/GREEN BAY, mostly spent as Valley News Bureau Chief supervising newsrooms in OSHKOSH and APPLETON.
• GLEN MOBERG, who moved to WAUSAU from CHICAGO in 1993 to serve as news director and anchor at WSAW-TV and later assignment manager for WAOW-TV. In 2003, he joined WISCONSIN PUBLIC RADIO as a reporter and talk show host.
• Marshall Shapiro passed away in 2012 and lived his entire life in MADISON. In 1964 he started hosting the WKOW-TV afternoon kids’ show “Cartoon Corral” as MARSHALL THE MARSHALL.

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