Terrence Baun, CPBE

Terrence Baun, CPBE
Inducted: 2004

His 35-plus year broadcast engineering career began in 1967 at Milwaukee's classical music station, WFMR-FM. After 10 years, he began a series of moves into corporate engineering, while also forming his own consulting firm, Criterion Broadcast Services, in Milwaukee. Through the years he worked for Sudbrink Broadcasting, Multimedia Broadcasting and Cumulus Broadcasting. He was very active in the Society of Broadcast Engineers, first in the Milwaukee chapter and then nationally. He served on the National SBE Board of Directors from 1987-89, on its Executive Committee in the mid-1990's and as the SBE National President from 1995-97. Baun was one of the original members of the WBA Summer Engineering Steering Committee and was one of the architects of WBA's Alternative Broadcast Station Inspection Program, serving as WBA's Chief Inspector for over 10 years beginning with the program's inauguration in 1995.