Conclave 41 Honors Midwest Communications Pres./CEO Duke Wright

Duke Wright Honored At Conclave 41

THE CONCLAVE LEARNING CONFERENCE and a packed agenda will present its 2016 ROCKWELL AWARD to MIDWEST COMMUNICATIONS Pres./CEO DUKE WRIGHT (NET NEWS 4/6). This year's ROCKWELL AWARD will be presented during THE CONCLAVE's 41st anniversary celebration on THURSDAY, JULY 14th and FRIDAY, JULY 15th at the CROWNE PLAZA HOTEL in MINNEAPOLIS.

CONCLAVE Board of Directors Chair LORI LEWIS commented, "The ROCKWELL AWARD honors individuals who have contributed to the industry as a leader and to the public radio serves. And everyone that knows DUKE knows he is the spirit of radio." WRIGHT said, "It is indeed an honor to be selected to join the terrific group of broadcasting industry leaders who have received the prestigious ROCKWELL AWARD."

DUKE WRIGHT started his radio career in 1958 as a teenage disk jockey at his family-owned station, WRIG-A/WAUSAU, WI. From those beginnings, WRIGHT’s broadcasting career would span well over 50 years and still going. WRIGHT’s MIDWEST COMMUNICATIONS is a family-owned media company with 72 radio properties located in the states of WISCONSIN, MICHIGAN, MINNESOTA, NORTH DAKOTA, SOUTH DAKOTA, INDIANA, ILLINOIS, and TENNESSEE.

Since 1989, THE CONCLAVE has presented THE ROCKWELL AWARD – an annual lifetime achievement award – to an individual of unquestioned accomplishment in the radio industry. THE ROCKWELL AWARD honors those who have contributed to the industry as an inspirational leader and a person of great accomplishment. The recipient has made lasting and significant contributions within radio, and also to the public radio serves.

Prior recipients of the ROCKWELL AWARD include: ALL ACCESS President/Publisher JOEL DENVER (2003); Former CBS RADIO Pres./CEO DAN MASON (2011); JACOBS MEDIA Pres. FRED JACOBS (2012); ALBRIGHT, O’MALLEY & BRENNER Pres. JAYE ALBRIGHT and CONCLAVE Exec. Dir. Emeritus, TOM KAY (2013); HUBBARD CEO GINNY MORRIS (2014); and NRG CEO MARY QUASS and VALLIE/RICHARDS/DONOVAN Founder DAN VALLIE (2015).

CONCLAVE 41 will be held JULY 13th-15th at THE CROWNE PLAZA in MINNEAPOLIS. All of this and so much more -- invest in your future, and sign up for CONCLAVE 41, now and grab a discounted room. 

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