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The 2016 KBA Board of Directors
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The KBA Board of Directors would like to welcome three members to the Board of Directors for 2016:
Ed Henson, Henson Media, Louisville
Ken Selvaggi, WAVE-TV, Louisville
Tom Ulmer, Alpha Media, Louisville
KBA Chairman Chris Aldridge has appointed Ed Henson and Ken Selvaggi to serve as at-large directors for 2016.
Tom Ulmer, Alpha Media in Louisville, has been elected to serve as the District 3 Radio Director. Ulmer will serve a 2 year term beginning January 1, 2015.
There will also be some returning faces to the board.
Re-elected to serve second terms will be:
District 1 Radio Director: Jim Moore, WYMC, Mayfield
District 5 Radio Director: Kristin Cantrell, CapCity Communications, Frankfort
District 7 Radio Director: Jeff Ray, Gateway Radio Works, Owingsville
Public Television: David Brinkley, WKU, Bowling Green
Also, returning to the board to serve their first full terms will be Lexington Market Television Director Chris Mossman, WKYT, Lexington and Small Markets Television Director Brad Odil, WBKO, Bowling Green. Chris and Brad were both appointed to the board in 2015 to fill unexpired terms.
Ed Henson 
Henson Media, LouisvilleEd Henson is a veteran Kentucky broadcaster, who started his broadcasting career in 1972. He and his sister, Louisa, managed their family owned stations, WAVG-AM and WLRS-FM from 1972 through 1988. After selling their stations, Ed started a media brokering firm and continues to be an active media broker. He has assisted in approximately 60 radio deals, as well as doing numerous valuations of radio and television stations. In addition, Ed got back into ownership in 2004 and currently owns WSON-AM/W243CU in Henderson and WMSK-FM/WUCO-AM and W253-BJ in Morganfield. Basically since getting into broadcasting, Ed has been active in broadcasting associations, having served on the board of the Kentucky Broadcasters Association numerous times and as President in 1990. He currently is in his second term of serving on the NAB Radio Board, representing radio stations in Kentucky and West Virginia. He has received the Kentucky Mic Hall of Fame Award and the Al Temple Award and is passionate about the KBA and its ability to serve broadcasting and broadcasters.
Ken Selvaggi
WAVE-TV, Louisville
Ken Selvaggi has served local communities in television broadcasting for 35 years.
He has been a General Manager for 14 years, including the past five at WAVE 3 News in Louisville, and a news director for 15, including 10 at WSAZ-TV in Huntington/Charleston, West Virginia. He was a special projects producer at WHAS-TV in Louisville, a news and sports producer at KDKA-TV in Pittsburgh, and a news producer for the Group W Newsfeed Network in Philadelphia. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of Leadership Louisville, the Jefferson County Public Education Foundation, the Kentucky Derby Festival, Actors Theatre of Louisville, and Campbellsville University, and just completed a board term with the Community Impact Council of the United Way. Ken and his wife Anne have been married for 21 years and have three children. Tom Ulmer  Alpha Media, LouisvilleTom is a 30+ year veteran in the industry whose first job in radio was wearing a sweaty Walrus costume as the mascot for WLRS in the mid 1970's. By 1979, Tom was hired as an account executive for the station. Tom also hosted Sunday afternoons on WLRS, known as Moondawg's Oldies Show. The Moondawg persona took on life of its own, and for the next ten years while working as a successful account executive during the day, he rocked the Moondawg's Oldies Show at night. In 1982, Ulmer worked at WCII AM and two years later was recruited by WAMZ FM. When Clear Channel purchased WAMZ and WHAS from the Bingham Family, they were two of the company's first sixteen radio stations. As a Senior Account Executive, Tom became one of the top performing sales people in the country for Clear Channel. He was an early member of Clear Channel's President's club which recognized the top performing sales people in the company. In 2000 Tom Ulmer was recruited by Blue Chip Broadcasting to become a General Sales Manager for their Louisville properties which are now owned by Alpha Media LLC. It was at Alpha Media LLC., where Tom Ulmer had the opportunity to join the board of the Kentucky Broadcasters Association. He served as Chairman of the KBA in 2009. Tom is also a Kentucky MIC Hall of Fame Award recipient.
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High School Scholarship Application Now Available
The Kentucky Broadcasters' Association (KBA) Scholarship Fund is a post-secondary partial scholarship grant program for children of employees of Kentucky radio and television stations. In 2016 the KBA will award fourteen (14) scholarship grants of fifteen hundred dollars ($1,500) each to qualified sons and daughters of employees of Kentucky broadcast stations.
Deadline: February 12
The grants will be used to assist the student in the payment of tuition, fees, books, and room and board. A scholarship committee will review each application and will award the scholarship grants based on the following criteria:
- One of the student's parents must be either: (a) a full time employee of a station on the date of the application deadline, or; (b) a part-time employee of a station on the date of the application deadline and has been employed as a part-time employee at the Kentucky station for a period of one year prior to the application deadline.
- The student must attend full-time a college, university, vocational school, institute of technology, or academy that awards academic degrees or professional certifications.
- There is no minimum GPA requirement to apply. However, preference will be shown to students who demonstrate good scholastic ability.
- Extracurricular activities (clubs, athletics, church, community service, part-time employment, etc.) will be considered in evaluating each applicant.
- Preference will be given to students with financial need.
- Grants may be awarded for undergraduate, graduate, and post graduate programs.
- Grants are made on an annual basis and are non-renewable.
For more information and to submit the scholarship application:
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FCC Announced Opening of Filing Window
The FCC has announced the opening of a filing window for the licensees of Class C and D AM broadcast stations to modify or relocate FM translators. The window will open on January 29th on a first-come/first-serve basis; closing on July 28th. FM translators may be relocated up to 250 miles or modified to any non-reserved band channel in compliance with the FM translator technical rules if they are intended to rebroadcast Class C and D AM broadcast stations. The link to the FCC's Public Notice is at http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2015/db1223/DA-15-1491A1.pdf. If you need assistance or have any questions regarding the First FM Translator Modification Window, please contact Dawn Sciarrino, KBA's Legal Hotline at dawn@sciarrinolaw.com or (202) 256-9551.
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Annual KBA Washington DC Fly-In
The annual KBA Washington D.C. trip will be February 23-24, 2016.
There is one seat available on the group flight from Louisville. If you would like to join the KBA group for visits to the Kentucky Congressional delegation, please let us know.
KBA will cover the hotel (1 night) and dinner on February 23rd.
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Up your digital skills in social, data, video at Lexington NewsTrain Jan. 21
For just $75, get a full day of digital training at APME's NewsTrain workshop in Lexington, Kentucky, on Jan. 21. Sessions include maximizing social media for branding and reporting, getting started with data-driven enterprise reporting, and shooting compelling smartphone video. Trainers include Daniel Victor, senior staff editor of The New York Times; Kathy Kieliszewski, visuals director of the Detroit Free Press; and Linda J. Johnson, former computer-assisted reporting coordinator for the Lexington Herald-Leader. Free 2015 AP Stylebook -- a $20.95 value - will go to the first 25 to register. Discounted $109 hotel rooms are available at the workshop site, the Hyatt Regency Lexington. Journalists, journalism students and journalism educators from diverse backgrounds are invited to apply by Dec. 21 for diversity scholarships, which cover the $75 registration fee. The workshop precedes the Kentucky Press Association Winter Convention. More info and register at http://bit.ly/LexingtonNewsTrain
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 FREE Webinar: New Marketing Nuggets to Instantly Increase Advertiser Interest and Sales
January 12, 2016 12 p.m. (Eastern)
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FREE LBS Training! 
Are you using this FREE member benefit? KBA offers access to the LBS Weekly Sales Videos free to all members! Your station's whole sales team can have their own personal LBS accounts at no additional cost! If you need login information, simply contact the KBA and we will be glad to help you get started. Don't miss out on these wonderful trainings!
This week's Videos: Sales Ideas Rely On Creativity!
The Best Sales Ideas Need Your Creative Advantage: Gary Moore discusses how and why the development of your creativity offers you a competitive advantage over other media reps in your market and even within your own station! Gary also shows how to use this skill with your local health clubs.
Free Retail Data! Eric Moore offers some freely-available, yet powerful retail data and includes some ideas on how you can use it in the field today!
Selling to Local Auto Dealers in a Virtual Crazy World: Broadcast sales pros and station management will want to tune in to this very informative session. Your broadcast and digital assets can be positioned to thrive and get more of your local dealers' growing digital marketing dollars. Here's a way to increase your value as a solution provider to your dealers, listeners, viewers, and users.
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Mark Your Calendar for these 2016 Events!
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February 8-10
Country Radio Seminar
Nashville, Tenn.
February 22-24
NAB State Leadership Conference
Washington D.C.
February 23-24
Annual KBA Fly-In
Washington D.C.
April 17-20
NAB Show
Las Vegas
September 21-23
Radio Show
Nashville, Tenn.
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