Nexstar's board of directors unanimously created a lifetime membership in the association specifically for Blau, a gesture that a Nexstar spokesperson said "is unprecedented in Nexstar's history."
Blau has been an advocate of teaching independent service providers how to run their businesses profitably for two decades. He started Blau Plumbing of Milwaukee in 1960. He found there was ample education available for learning trade skills but nothing for owners of service companies who were looking for better ways of running their businesses.