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Sabin, thanks for joining
us.

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>> I appreciate it. Thank
you very much.

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>> Finally tonight we relay
the news with sadness that

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Jon Miskowski, our PBS
Wisconsin director of

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television, has passed away
following a long battle

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with cancer. Jon Miskowski
was director since 2015.

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Originally from Stevens
Point, he started his

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career here as a volunteer
at a TV back in 1984.

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John's vision brought many
firsts to this station,

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including LS Lambeau
welcoming home Wisconsin's

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Vietnam veterans.
>> I want to thank you from

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my heart.
>> Other initiatives John

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developed include. PBS
Wisconsin Education,

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Wisconsin Hometown Stories
and Tribal Histories. Upon

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his retirement earlier this
month, John said, my 40

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years in public television,
including my time as PBS

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Wisconsin director of
television, have been a

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source of inspiring
challenges and creative joy

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from all of us here at PBS
Wisconsin. Thank you, John,

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for your leadership. John
is survived by his wife,

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two sons, and the light of
his life. His granddaughter,