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Stanley S. Hubbard - M Club hall of Fame
Stanley S. Hubbard
Lifetime Achievement Award
HOF Class of 1996
St. Paul native Stanley S. Hubbard played hockey for the 1953 to 1955 Golden Gophers and, while still in college, began working in the family business, Hubbard Broadcasting.
His father, Stanley E. Hubbard, signed-on the company’s first radio station in 1923. The younger Hubbard became president of Hubbard Broadcasting in 1967, later adding the titles of chairman, president and CEO in 1983. He also formed the U.S. Satellite Broadcasting Co., Inc., (USSB) in 1981.
Hubbard has served on the United States National Information Infrastructure Advisory Council, the FCC’s Blue Ribbon Advisory Committee on Advanced Television Service, and the Broadcast Advisory Committee to the House Subcommittee on Communications. He frequently testified before Congress on communications issues.
He and his father jointly received the National Association of Broadcasters Distinguished Service Award. Stanley S. Hubbard was inducted into Broadcasting & Cable Magazine’s Hall of Fame in 1991 and the Society of Satellite Professionals International Hall of Fame in 1992, and he received the SBCA’s Arthur C. Clarke Award in 1994. Hubbard has served on the University of Minnesota Foundation.
Hubbard Broadcasting made a large gift in support of the University’s College of Journalism and Mass Communication in 2009.