WXON: TV Station Manager
WCXI: Radio General Sales Manager
WKBD: TV Sales Manager
WWJ: TV Sales Manager
WXYZ: Radio, TV Sales Manager.
Portion of Mike’s obituary, “…Mike was a long-time professional in the Detroit broadcast industry (radio and television), with experience including positions Sales Manager at WXYZ-TV , WWJ-TV, and WKBD TV; General Sales Manager of WCXI Radio; Station Manager of WXON-TV and Senior VP Midwest Region (Detroit and Chicago) for Premiere Radio Networks. …” The Detroit News and Detroit Free Press
References
- The Detroit News and Detroit Free Press – Archives (PDF)
- The Missoulian – November 4, 2014 – Archives (PDF)
Recommended Reading
Watching TV: Eight Decades of American Television, Third Edition (Television and Popular Culture)
Castleman and Podrazik present a sweeping season-by-season story, capturing the essence of television from its inception to the contemporary era of anytime access and online streaming, including every prime time fall schedule since 1944. The authors have dug through the mounds of obscure facts, offbeat anecdotes, and corporate strategies that have made television a multibillion-dollar industry. Watching TV provides a fascinating history of how the personalities, popular shows, and coverage of key events have evolved across eight decades.
Full of facts, firsts, insights, and exploits, as well as rare and memorable photographs, Watching TV is the standard history of American television. This third edition includes coverage up through the mid-2010s and looks ahead to the next waves of change.
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