Allen Elected Board Chair New Officers & Directors Elected at Annual Meeting
Allen Elected Board Chair New Officers & Directors Elected At Annual Meeting According to WBA bylaws, Tom Allen, Regional Vice President for Quincy Media, Inc. assumed the Chair position at the annual meeting during the recent WBA Winter Conference. Tom Allen is currently a Regional Vice President for Quincy Media, Inc., overseeing television stations in seven markets, which includes a number of Wisconsin stations in Madison, Wausau, La Crosse, Eau Claire and Superior/Duluth. A native of Wisconsin, Tom returned to Madison in 2008 as VP/GM of WKOW TV. After graduating from Loyola University in New Orleans where he worked at WWL Television, Tom has held TV management positions in markets including Nashville TN, Tulsa OK, Cleveland OH and Raleigh NC. Following his time in Raleigh, where Tom Tom Allen also served as Chair of the North Carolina Association of Broadcasters, he and his wife Patti took a break and hit the road for more than four years, traveling much of North America behind the wheel of an RV. Eventually, he got tired of driving, and Tom returned to broadcasting, joining Quincy in the summer of 2006. In the Chair position, Allen succeeds Scott Chorski, Vice President/General Manager of WKBT-TV in La Crosse, who will remain as ex-officio Past Chair. With Allen now in the leadership position on the Board, Dick Record, Family Radio, La Crosse was elected Vice- Chair Radio and designated Chair-Elect to succeed Allen in 2017. Steve Wexler, E.W. Scripps Company, Milwaukee, was elected Vice-Chair Television; Nancy Douglass, WLKG-FM, Lake Geneva, was elected was elected Treasurer; and Steve Lavin, WBAY-TV, Green Bay, was elected Secretary.
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