Today we are honoring and remembering my good friend Mike Sankey, a man who shaped this industry and shaped the people in it, myself included.
Mike Sankey founded BRB Publications and wrote the books that became the bible of the screening industry, the MVR Book and the MVR Decoder. He was a founding force behind PBSA, the inaugural recipient of the PBSA Lifetime Achievement Award now named in his honor, and a man who somehow found time for racehorses, can-collecting ventures, and a years-long Groucho Marx glasses tradition that became legendary at every NAPBS dinner. In this episode, the people who knew him best share what made him so unforgettable, both as a businessman and as a friend.
Pro Conversation You Don’t Want to Miss!
- How Mike’s MVR Book and MVR Decoder became required reading for the entire industry, and why one colleague said skipping them would have set the field back years
- The phone call that turned standards into guidelines, and how Mike and John Kloos got nine vendor guidelines finished in nine months
- The founding member idea that helped launch PBSA off of fourteen thousand dollars
- Mike’s legendary Groucho Marx glasses tradition, and the prank he pulled on Derek Hinton involving a fake family photo album from people who never existed
- A heartfelt letter from Mike’s brother Mark on what it meant to work side by side with him for twenty years without a single heated argument
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