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Tim Staudt Tim Staudt has been a mid-Michigan broadcaster for over 30 years, the longest tenure of any sportscaster on television in the state.

Known as “the Dean of Sports,” Tim has anchored the sportscasts at WILX in Lansing, since 1980. Prior to that, he was the Sports Director at the former WJIM-TV in Lansing from 1971-1980.

Tim has won several awards in the industry and serves numerous area charities, including Children’s Miracle Network at Sparrow Hospital, and the Coaches for Kids initiative. Tim’s two annual events (Ultimate Golf Outing and MSU Marching Band Concert) have raised more than $200,000 for Sparrow’s Pediatric ER project in the last four years.

Tim also hosts the popular “Staudt on Sports” radio program each weekday at noon on Sports Radio 730 WVFN [The Fan]. Debuting on March 8, 1993, the show has grown to become the most widely listened of its type in out-state Michigan.

Tim has hosted a number of coaches shows over the years and has hosted Big Ten Basketball play-by-play for more than 10 years.

Tim is married to Cathy and they have three boys, all residing in Okemos.

He graduated from East Lansing High School in 1967 and from Michigan State University with a journalism degree in 1971.


Bruce Herrick is President and CEO of Michigan Millers Mutual Insurance Company in Lansing, Michigan. He has served in that role since 1997. Prior to coming to Lansing, he was Chief Operating Officer of Vik Brothers Insurance Group in Laurenceville, New Jersey, and then President and CEO of American Reliance Insurance Company.

Bruce is Vice Chairman of the Sparrow Foundation Board of Directors, and serves on many committees. Michigan Millers Mutual Insurance Company has been an enormous supporter of Coaches for Kids, and other key initiatives to help build Sparrow’s future pediatric ER and other major resources within the new ER and Trauma Center.

Possessing a degree in engineering from the University of Maryland, Bruce spent more than a decade as a manager of commercial property lines policy and pricing with the Insurance Services Office in New York State.

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