Tom Langmyer

Tom Langmyer is an author and broadcast executive. He is currently Vice President, News/Talk/Sports Radio Programming for E. W. Scripps Company and also serves at Vice President and General Manager of Scripps' Milwaukee radio stations. Langmyer joined Scripps Media in 2013.

Broadcasting career

In 2005, he joined Tribune Company as Vice President and General Manager of WGN Radio in Chicago, adding the slogan "The Voice of Chicago." In 2008, he acquired play-by-play rights for the Chicago Blackhawks for the station. The station served as the flagship for the Chicago Cubs and Northwestern University Wildcats football and men's basketball broadcasts. Langmyer served on the Board of Directors of the Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce and the Illinois Broadcasters Association. He serves on the Radio Advertising Bureau/National Association of Broadcasters steering committee, which directs conference programming at the NAB's Annual Radio Show.

Langmyer previously worked for KMOX Radio St. Louis, MO, joining parent company CBS Radio in 1992, ultimately becoming VP/General Manager in 2003. He also served as National Vice President of News/Talk Programming for CBS Radio. Langmyer’s experience also consists of consulting both music and news/talk radio stations, including New York’s WNEW. Radio & Records, named him General Manager of the Year in 2009.

Langmyer began his career in on-air roles and other capacities in his hometown of Buffalo, New York at WBEN/WBEN-FM and WJYE-FM and at WJJL-AM in Niagara Falls, NY and at stations in Grove City, PA and Youngstown, OH. He worked in roles at WGR-AM/FM in Buffalo, including airborne traffic pilot and reporter. He also worked on the air in Pittsburgh, PA at WTAE. From 1986 - 1992, he he served as operations director of WSYR and WYYY-FM in Syracuse, NY.

Great Lakes Author

Langmyer's book, Lake Erie: History and Views was published in 2010. The 312-page hardcover book was written to educate readers on the history of Lake Erie and the surrounding region. The account combines narration, factual summaries, historic photographs, engravings, maps, and antique postcards from Langmyer's collection as well as current photographs. Starting with the creation of Lake Erie during the Ice Age, the story describes the lake's discovery by Europeans, the battles for its control, how people settled and developed the region around the lake, and how the population grew along its shores. The "Circle of Cities and Towns" group of chapters, covers the history of most municipalities around the lake. The reader is also taken behind the scenes aboard a 1,000-foot lakeboat, the Walter J. McCarthy Jr., on a journey up the Great Lakes.

References

Lake Erie: History and Views (website for the book, Lake Erie: History and Views, which chronicles the history of the Lake Erie region in the U.S. and Canada): LakeErieHistory

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