Airstaff: Marty Green

Thursday morning co-host
 
 
Marty Green started in commercial radio at age 18 at WEAW in Evanston, Illinois, while also working for United Artists Pictures in public relations.  He was the youngest Program Director in South Carolina in 1962 and this is where he began his sales career at WORG.  Marty came to Wisconsin in 1966 in Sales at WLUK-TV in Green Bay, and he served as on-field producer for Green Bay Packers pre-season, state-wide telecasts.
 

The remainder of Marty’s career was spent in Eau Claire from 1976 to 2003.  He was the National Sales Manager for Central Radio Group, and during his tenure with WAXX, the station won both a CMA and Marconi Station of the Year award.  On the programming side, Marty served as General Manager of WAYY and WEAQ.  Marty brought News/Talk Radio to Western Wisconsin in 1990 on WAYY.  He served on the board of directors of the WBA for 11 years and was Chairman in 1997, in addition to sering on the board of the National Association of Talk Show Hosts in the 1990s.  In 2006, Marty was elected to The Wisconsin Broadcaster Association Hall of Fame after a 40+ year career in Illinois, Texas, South Carolina, and the last 30+ years in Wisconsin.

After his retirement in 2003, Marty formed Marsan Consulting to work with small-market, independently-owned radio stations in Wisconsin, Minnesota and Iowa.  Marty has loved broadcasting since he was five years old and continues to mentor many young broadcasters.  He also served on the Eau Claire Redevelopment Board and was twice president of the Eau
Eau Claire Optimist Club.

Besides radio, Marty (Mr. Cub) has a passion for BASEBALL.  He served as the Goodwill Ambassador for the Eau Claire Express of the Northwoods Baseball League, and also continues to volunteer for various charitable organizations in the Chippewa Valley.  He was Co-Chair of MAJEC Movement for an Affordable Jail in Eau Claire in 2010.

Marty's Musings

The thoughts of NewsTalk 790 Today Thursday co-host Marty Green.

  • WHY I AM FRUSTRATED

    Posted on: May 19, 2013 by: Marty Green
    Sunday Morning, May 19th, 2013, Year of our Lord.  I awake in time to watch all Sunday Talk Shows.

    Dan Pfeiffer, an Obama spokesperson, is out there spinning away.  He sounded like the Nixonites did before Watergate broke wide open.  Whether it's Benghazi…The IRS…or the AP Wiretaps…I could not believe my ears.  We didn’t know…We weren’t involved……yeh yeh yeh.

    This administration came into office saying how transparent they would be.  Instead they are the opposite.  Susan Rice’s and Hillary Clinton’s lies on the aftermath of the Benghazi attacks…{The Video was the reason}…to never allowing the survivors of that attack to speak in public.  To not knowing anything at all  about THE IRS going after “THE TEA PARTY and PATRIOT GROUPS”.  Eric Holder's lack of memory on that and FAST AND FURIOUS has a track record of deceit.

    On the AP Wiretaps…Why weren’t they going after the Leakers in Government instead of the Reporters.  DEEP THROAT was a leaker that led to exposing Watergate. {Watch ALL THE PRESIDENTS MEN if you are too young to have lived it.}

    Dan Pfeifer stated the Republicans are in danger of overreaching…I guess Woodward and Bernstein overreached Uh?

    It won’t happen but Barack Obama…is a worse president than Jimmy Carter.  IMPEACHMENT would cause gridlock as Brian Kilmeade said and Biden as Prez is a frightening prospect.  BUT LIES and DISCEPTION must stop.

    To my liberal friends…Don’t call up and blame “W”.  He is not the President and if he lied about Weapons of Mass Destruction…He should have been impeached too.

    I voted for Obama in 2008…Hoping that change would bring us together.  Boy was I wrong.  His new Slogan is  now in full swing by Dan Pfeiffer and Jay Carney.  It is “HOPE and CHANGE THE SUBJECT.”  We in talk radio will not.  Keep it up Brian…Laura…Mark…Rush…Sean…Glen and I will too…

    Marty Green
    Political Contributor on
    WAYY Radio in Eau Claire Wisconsin Read More

  • MARTYS BLOG….I’M BACK

    Posted on: May 10, 2013 by: Marty Green
    I actually have 4 families…that mean a lot to me…My family…wife Mary Jane..4 children, 2 son-in-laws..4 grandkids and sister-in-laws..nieces..cousins..nieces and nephews, etc. My Green Bay and Eau Claire broadcast Families and my original broadcast family in South Carolina.  I am back from an absolutely fantastic visit back to where my 50+ year radio career began as a 20-year-old DJ.  My wife Mary Jane and I traveled to both Orangeburg and Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.  To visit with all of these Friends -- both co workers and listeners from 1962-1967 -- was a thrill of a lifetime.

    To be on the air on both WORG and The Surf 94.9 was a thrill. It was exactly 51 years ago that I started on May 1st,  1962, and to be back on that great station with my pal Marion Garris {who I hired almost 50 years ago} and wife Jody, and daughter and great DJ in her own right Meredith, and joining great morning guy Stu Wright for 3 hours of playing  “THE TOP 60 in DIXIE,” and see former DJs I worked with 50 years ago was a moving experience.

    Saturday Night we went to dinner with Sonny and Pat Williams who ran the music store where I compiled that Top 60 Survey, and relive memories with them and Betty Jean Hildebrand and Daughter Diana and great friends from those by gone days was emotional. When we walked into “THE CHESTNUT GRILL” and the hostess..said…"You're Marty Green…I remember you from 50 years ago" knocked me out.  For the folks who stopped in at WORG’s studio or called me up.  I thank you Forever.  We were on WAYY and WORG Monday -- that was Fun.

    So thank you Orangeburg for taking me into your heart 50 years ago. And thanks to the entire staff of WORG for welcoming me back with so much love and joy. Great stations are a family and I have met some of the best wherever I have worked. Orangeburg…Green Bay and Eau Claire. By the way the folks I met like their Gov. Haley…Mark Sanford and even Lindsey Graham {Most of the time}.  They do not like Liberals or President Obama or Hillary Clinton.  About Benghazi……I heard the word Impeachment while in South Carolina.

    More next Thursday when I am on WAYY……{Glad to be home}     Marty Read More

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