Board of Directors

Cam Maxwell is the president and CEO of Desert Mountain Broadcasting. Cam was born and raised in Billings, married to his wife Shannon for 26 years and they have 3 daughters 14-23 years old. Cam began his broadcast career as a board operator, then graduated to voicework, in his teens in the mid-80’s at KOHZ FM in Billings.  His love of radio led him to work in all departments which eventually opened up management opportunities from the Sales and Programming departments to Market Manager positions.  Cam has run groups in Billings, Bozeman, Rapid City, Bismarck, Phoenix, Kansas City and Los Angeles; and he has held ownership and executive positions in multiple corporations including his own companies. Cam is a highly experienced, award winning, proactive and entrepreneurial broadcast executive. Currently, Cam owns twelve stations in Billings and Bozeman.

Dewey Bruce is the president and CEO of Montana Broadcasters Association (MBA). As MBA president, Dewey lobbies on behalf of Montana’s broadcasters at the state and federal levels and is responsible for all activities of the association. Dewey began his career in broadcasting at KGVO radio in Missoula as an account executive. He has worked in broadcasting for over 30 years in sales, sales management and station management. Dewey has served on numerous boards including the MBA board where he served as the Board Chairman for a year. Dewey serves on the board of St. Peter's Hospital and is chair of the St. Peter's Hospital Community Relations Committee. Dewey was named Business Person of the Year in 2012 by the Helena Area Chamber of Commerce. Dewey has a B.S. degree in Business Administration/Marketing from Fresno State University. Dewey is married to Nancy and has two step children, a son-in-law, daughter-in-law, and three grandchildren.  

Kevin Terry is the General Manager of The Montana Radio Company in Helena. They feature nine different radio stations that provide entertainment, news, and sports to over 65,000 people in and around the Capital City.

Ron is a native of Butte Montana, known as the richest hill on earth and now America’s largest superfund clean up site. He is president of Butte Broadcasting and General Manager of radio stations KBOW, KOPR and KGLM . Ron started his broadcast career as a junior in high school at the stations. Working for Shag Miller he worked his way from weekend announcer to General Manager over the next 16 years. He and wife Shelly bought the radio stations from Shag on April first of 1994. Ron can still be heard on the air as the morning announcer on KOPR 94 and doing play-by-play sports. Recently he has added Buttesports.com, an on-line sports page, to the radio stations. During his more than 30-year career he has served Montana broadcasters twice on the Board of Directors of the Montana Broadcasters Association. Ron’s first term started in 1990 and lasted ten years. Seven of those years Ron served as NAB Legislative Liaison working closely with our representatives in Washington DC. The term included two years as President of the Association, in 2010 Ron re-joined the MBA board and is currently active on the board. In 1998 Ron was elected to his first term on the NAB radio board representing Montana, Idaho and Wyoming he served through 2002. In 2006 Ron was re-elected to the NAB Radio Board and finished his six years of service to the national radio industry in 2012. In 2012, the National Association of Broadcasters honored radio station KBOW with a prestigious Crystal Award. Since 1987, the NAB Crystal Radio Awards have recognized 10 radio stations radio stations each year, for their outstanding year-round commitment to community service. Ron and his wife Shelly along with their two children Maggie and Austin and Ron’s 80 year old mother all can be found working at the radio stations.

Raised on the family ranch at Sand Springs, Taylor Brown is well-known as an agricultural broadcaster.  He and his family own the Northern Broadcasting System, and its flagship radio station KGHL (AM790 and 94.7FM) in Billings.  Taylor is a past National President of the National Association of Farm Broadcasting, and a member of the NAFB Hall of Fame. Serving in the Montana Senate from 2009-16, Brown was Majority Whip, and chaired the Senate Agriculture Committee, as well as the Senate Education Committee. Brown is known as an advocate for rural farm and ranch families, and his support of 4-H, FFA, Alpha Gamma Rho Fraternity and the REAL Montana leadership program. Taylor and Shannon have been married since 1980, and are active in the Huntley Project community just east of Billings. Their son Travis and his wife Mary operate the family’s LO Cattle Company west of Sand Springs.  Their son Colter Brown, daughter Courtney Kibblewhite, and her husband Jonathan lead the management team at Northern Broadcasting.