Stanley S. Hubbard

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Hubbard Broadcasting, Stanley S. Hubbard is a second generation broadcaster, who can trace his involvement with television all the way back to being present when the first RCA television camera was sold – to his father, Stanley E. Hubbard. He was there again, when his father did the first demonstration of television for people in the Minneapolis/St Paul area during the summer of 1938. He has been involved in all phases of the local television business since he was a young boy, becoming an official employee of KSTP-TV in 1951.

From that first camera, and that first demonstration, KSTP, and Hubbard Broadcasting have continued to accrue a string of firsts: first station in the U.S. to have regularly scheduled daily newscasts, first station to have high-speed color film processing, first all-color broadcasts, first to have weather radar. Under Stanley’s leadership, the first satellite news gathering vehicles were built, and he pioneered satellite newsgathering, both domestically and abroad.

Stanley S. has been active in industry affairs, serving as Chair of the Board of Trustees of the National Television Academy, and now as Chair of it’s Foundation Board. He has served on industry boards too numerous to list, from SPJ to the Royal Television Society of London. He has an equally long record of service to our community, serving as board member for organizations as diverse as the University of Minnesota Foundation and the St. Croix Valley Youth Center.