Founded in 1949, the MAB held its 65th Anniversary celebration from 25-27 August at the Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island. While focused on business meetings and the presentation of awards, there was a substantive afternoon session that provided broad overviews of the landscape for broadcasting. Speakers included Congressman John Dingle, also a Special Honoree, and Senator Gordon Smith, President of the NAB, and David Oxenford, with Wilkinson Barker Knauer, LLP. US Senator Carl Levin was also a speaker and received MAB’s 2014 Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award. The MAB includes public broadcasting as well as commercial, so a number of awards were […]
