MAB Hall Of Fame
The Maine Broadcasting Hall of Fame was created in 1993 to honor those employees of Maine broadcasting stations who have made a significant contribution to their industry and the community. At that time, all prior Broadcaster of the Year honorees were inducted into the Hall of Fame. Here is a list of the honorees past and present:
Faust Couture, 1966*
Jack Atwood, 1967*
Phil Johnson, 1968*
Elden Shute, 1969*
Rudolph Marcoux, 1970*
Carleton Brown, 1971*
Walter Dickson, 1972*
Paul Huber, 1973*
Norman Gallant, 1974*
Keith Fowles, 1975*
Chuck Sanford, 1976*
Don Powers, 1977*
Edward Guernsey, 1978*
Jack Martin, 1979*
Harvey DeVane, 1980*
Margo Cobb, 1981*
Terrence Economy, 1982*
Ron Frizzell, 1983*
Dan Hollingdale, 1984*
Frank DeFrancesco, 1985*
Edward Winchester, 1986*
George Gonyar, 1987*
Harold Vigue, 1988*
Norman Johnson, 1989*
Bruce McGorrill, 1990*
Helen Sloane Dudman, 1991*
Frederic Hirsch, 1992*
George Wildey, 1993*
“Buffalo” Bob Smith, Bud Leavitt, Mary Rines Thompson, 1993
Lew Colby, 1994*
George Hale, Wellington “Bud” Sawyer, 1994
Katherine K. Dolley, 1995*
Edgar L. “Eddie” Driscoll, Melvin L. Stone, 1995
Bob Gold, 1996*
Don Colson, Dean Rogers, 1996
Bonnie Grant, 1997*
Bob Fuller & J. J. Jeffrey, 1997
Alexander G. “Gil” Maxwell, 1998*
Fred Thompson, Dale Carter, 1998
Michael T. Young, 1999*
Fred Nutter, 1999
Dennis and Pamela Curley, 2000*
Paul Salisbury, Bob Elliot, 2000
Bob Duchesne, 2001*
Horace Hildreth, 2001
Rob Gardiner, 2002*
John Beaulieu, Kim Block, 2002
Dick Gleason, 2003*
Phil Gildart, Dick Johnson, 2003
David Kaufman, 2004*
Dave Astor, Dick Bronson, “Cap’n” Lloyd Knight,
Bernie Roscetti, 2004
Jo Ann Small Fisher, 2005*
Mike Audet, Clement Payeur, 2005
Bill McVicar, 2006*
Don Brown, Frank Fixaris, Randi Kirshbaum, 2006
Don Shields, 2007*
Herb Ivy, Doug Rafferty, 2007
John Marshall, 2008*
R. L. Caron, Gary Sturtevant, 2008
Richard Chandler, 2009*
Ryan Cote, 2009
Tim Moore, 2010*
Mark Osborne, 2010
Bruce Biette, 2011*
Bill Green, Susan Kimball, 2011
Jim Ledger, 2012*
Dewey DeWitt, 2012
Karen Hill, 2013**
Dick Hyatt, 2013
Joe Martelle, 2013
Cary Pahigian, 2014**
Bob Anderson, Bruce Glasier, 2014
Jon van Hoogenstyn, 2015**
Rob Caldwell, Ben Haskell, 2015
Kevin Mannix, 2016**
Don Carrigan, Rick Snyder, 2016
Judy Horan, 2017**
Chuck Igo, 2017
Chris Rose, 2017
Stan Bennett, 2018*
Pat Callaghan, 2018
Tom O and Mr. Mike (Charles Bell and Mike Estrada), 2018
Jeff Pierce, 2019*
Marty Engstrom, 2019
Lori Voornas, 2019
* denotes Broadcaster of the Year or Broadcasting Achievement Award recipient. The Broadcaster of the Year award was renamed the Broadcasting Achievement Award in 2010.