{"id":418930,"date":"2026-05-09T03:18:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T03:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/418930\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T03:18:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T03:18:10","slug":"good-karma-brands-civic-media-stations-take-top-prizes-at-2026-wba-awards-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/418930\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Karma Brands, Civic Media Stations Take Top Prizes At 2026 WBA Awards. | Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good Karma Brands stations received awards in two Station of the Year categories and one Best Radio Show category at this year\u2019s Wisconsin Broadcasters Association awards ceremony, held May 2. Three stations owned by Civic Media also received awards for Best Radio Show.<\/p>\n<p>WBA\u2019s awards, chosen from more than 1,300 entries from 108 participating stations and judged by professional broadcasters outside Wisconsin, went to Good Karma Brands\u2019 WTMJ-AM (620) Milwaukee and WBEV-FM (95.3) Beaver Dam, for Large and Small Market News and Talk Station of the Year, respectively. The company\u2019s \u201cESPN Madison\u201d WTLX (100.5) Madison afternoon team of Jim Rutledge, Olympic gold medalist Matt Hamilton and Molly Brown took first place in Best Large Market Radio Show, News and Talk.<\/p>\n<p>Civic Media WAUK (540 and translator W262CJ 100.3) Milwaukee\u2019s \u201cWAUK All News, All Morning\u201d won first place in Best Large Market Morning Radio Show, News and Talk, while its WGBW (1590 and translator W250CV 97.5) Green Bay\u2019s \u201cNEWisco Weekend \u2014 Pride\u201d came in first for Best Medium Market Radio Show, News and Talk. In the Music station categories, Civic Media oldies WRJN (1400) Racine\u2019s \u201cThe Don Rosen Morning Show\u201d took first for Best Medium Market Morning Radio Show.<\/p>\n<p>Other awards in News and Talk programming went to Seehafer Broadcasting WOMT-AM\/FM (1240\/98.9) Manitowoc for Medium Market Station of the Year; Midwest Communications WTAQ-AM\/FM (1360 \/97.5) Green Bay\u2019s \u201cThe Morning News\u201d with Matt Z. and Rob Sussman, Best Medium Market Morning Radio Show, first place; and AMC Partners WHYB (103.7) Menominee for Best Small Market Radio Show, first place for \u201cThe Shoreline Shopping Show\u201d and Best Small Market Radio Show, first place for \u201cSwap Shop.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the music category, Station of the Year awards went to Sun Prairie Community Foundation variety WLSP-LP (103.5) Sun Prairie and City of Monona Americana-formatted WVMO-LP (98.7) Monona, tying for the Large Market award, while Woodward Communications CHR WKSZ \u201c95.9 Kiss FM\u201d Green Bay and CTJ Communications hot AC \u201cThe Lake\u201d WLKG (96.1) Lake Geneva won for Medium and Small Market.<\/p>\n<p>First-place winners for Music\u2019s Best Radio Show were Saga Communications rock \u201c102.9 The Hog\u201d WHQG Milwaukee midday host Mindy Novotny for Large Market, WKSZ\u2019s \u201cAfternoons with Reed and Eddie\u201d for Medium, and WLKG\u2019s \u201cMiddays with Andi\u201d for Small. The first-place award for Best Morning Music Radio Show, Large Market went to WVMO-LP\u2019s weekend show \u201cThis Week in Music History,\u201d while the Small Market award was given to WLKG\u2019s weekender \u201cLifeMatters with Tom &amp; Nancy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For a complete list of 2026 Wisconsin Broadcasters Association Award winners, click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wi-broadcasters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/NL-Pages-2026-WITH-HYPERLINKS-WEB.pdf.\" target=\"_Blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Good Karma Brands stations received awards in two Station of the Year categories and one Best Radio Show&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418931,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,4975,157,111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-418930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-free","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}