Tom Langmyer is an American author, broadcast executive and media consultant. He is currently CEO of Great Lakes Media Corp. Langmyer was previously vice president of news/talk/sports radio programming for

E. W. Scripps Company The E. W. Scripps Company, also known as Scripps, is an American broadcasting company founded in 1878 as a chain of daily newspapers by Edward Willis "E. W." Scripps and his sister, Ellen Browning Scripps. It was also formerly a media conglom ...

and he also served as vice president and general manager of Scripps' Milwaukee radio stations

WTMJ (AM) WTMJ (620 kHz) is a commercial radio station in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Owned by Good Karma Brands, the station has a news/talk radio format. Its sign-on dates back to 1922 and for most of its history it was owned by ''The Milwaukee Journal'' newsp ...

and

WKTI WKTI (94.5 FM broadcasting, FM) – branded 94.5 ESPN Milwaukee – is a commercial Sports radio, sports radio station licensed to Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, serving the Milwaukee metropolitan area. Owned by Good Karma Brands, WKTI is a ...

. Langmyer joined Scripps in 2013. He previously was vice president and general manager of

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in Chicago and KMOX (AM) in

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. He also served as national VP of news/talk formats for CBS Radio. He began his career in his hometown of Buffalo,

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and later worked for stations in

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Ohio Ohio ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. It borders Lake Erie to the north, Pennsylvania to the east, West Virginia to the southeast, Kentucky to the southwest, Indiana to the ...

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, New York,

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and

Pittsburgh Pittsburgh ( ) is a city in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States, and its county seat. It is the List of municipalities in Pennsylvania#Municipalities, second-most populous city in Pennsylvania (after Philadelphia) and the List of Un ...

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. In 2018, he was named to the Buffalo Broadcasters Association Hall of Fame.

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 Lake Erie ( ) is the fourth-largest lake by surface area of the five Great Lakes in North America and the eleventh-largest globally. It is the southernmost, shallowest, and smallest by volume of the Great Lakes and also has the shortest avera ...

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

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, 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 The Great Lakes, also called the Great Lakes of North America, are a series of large interconnected freshwater lakes spanning the Canada–United States border. The five lakes are Lake Superior, Superior, Lake Michigan, Michigan, Lake Huron, H ...

References

External links

*''Great Lakes Media Corp'', (website for broadcasting ownership and consulting firm)

*''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): *''Toxins in Lake Erie'', A Study by Case Western Reserve University

*''Grove City College Alumni News'', Alumni honored for achievements

*''Radio Ink Magazine'', 2015 Radio Wayne Award Winne

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