Greater Media Inc., Boston, announced that Senior Vice President and Regional General Manager Tom Bender was named Market Manager of the Year at the 2006 Radio Wayne Awards. The honor was announced during a Feb. 3 breakfast hosted by the Radio Advertis-ing Bureau at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Dallas.
“We are very proud of Tom’s outstanding accomplishments,” said Peter Smyth, president and CEO of Greater Media Inc. “His passion, dedication, leadership and vision have made Greater Media’s Detroit-based operation the outstanding organization it is today.”
Bender joined Greater Media in November 1986. He was promoted to vice president in 1988 and senior vice president in 1994.
“I would like to thank Peter Smyth, [Greater Media Chairman] John Bordes and the entire Greater Media Detroit family for giving me the opportunity to receive this special honor,” said Bender.
The awards were founded in 1992 by Radio Ink magazine to recognize outstanding salespeople, managers and broadcasters who personify the best in radio. The awards were named in honor of the late “Radio” Wayne Cornils, who served as executive vice president of the Radio Advertising Bureau and senior vice president of radio at the National Association of Broadcasters.
Greater Media Inc. is the parent company of 19 AM and FM radio stations in the Boston, Detroit, Philadelphia and New Jersey markets. In addition, it owns a modern printing plant and a group of weekly newspapers in central New Jersey, including this newspaper, as well as several telecommunications towers throughout the United States.