LANSING, mi (wtvb) – Peter Tanz, Senior Vice President for Midwest Communications, the parent company WTVB, was elected Chair of the Michigan Association of Broadcasters (MAB) Board of Directors during the organization’s annual business meeting Tuesday, August 22 at Crystal Mountain Resort in Thompsonville.
Tanz becomes the 72nd chairman of the MAB, one of the largest and most successful state broadcast associations in the nation. The MAB represents nearly 300 radio and television stations and about 4,000 individual broadcasting industry employees across the state of Michigan.
Tanz joined Duke Wright’s Midwest Communications in Green Bay, Wisc, as an advertising sales representative in 1985 and was promoted to General Manager in 1987. He managed the company’s stations in Wausau, Wisc., Lincoln and Omaha, Neb., before moving to Michigan in 1995 when Midwest purchased 4 stations from Tri-State Broadcasting. Today, Midwest Communications operates 14 stations in southwest Michigan and Lansing.
As Senior Vice President, Peter works with market management at more than 70 radio stations owned by Midwest.
Peter is a member of the MAB Foundation Board and has chaired several MAB committees. He is involved with many community organizations and is past chair of the Coldwater and Kalamazoo Chambers of Commerce and the Kalamazoo Visitor and Convention Bureau.
