Second Alaska Day at the FCC.
Month: December 2016
Beginning of year 1998
ABA hires Linda Simmons as their first full-time Executive Director.
1998
ABA joins the 49 other state associations in a three-year legal battle with the FCC to fight unconstitutional reporting and list making for EEO requirements.
2000
The ABA brings the Alternative Broadcast Inspection Program to Alaska.
June 2003
Walter Cronkite makes a return visit to Alaska to visit friend Augie Hiebert and has “dinner” with a few friends (250) at the Hilton Hotel. The ABA presents Mr. Cronkite with the “:Augie Hiebert Lifetime Achievement Award” and Senator Ted Stevens presents Augie with a Senate Resolution. Senator Stevens was inducted into the ABA Hall of Fame.