2018 Articles

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Star Tribune: KARE's Belinda Jensen dishes on 25 years of predicting the weather (12/12)
Star Tribune: KQRS stars revisit 50-year saga of Minnesota's most loved/hated station (12/9)
Star Tribune: MPR's Bob Collins announces his retirement via Twitter (12/6)
Star Tribune: Mark Rosen leaving WCCO-TV in January, earlier than expected (12/4)
Star Tribune: Departing KARE 11 anchor Cory Hepola will replace John Hines at WCCO Radio (12/4)
Pioneer Press: A subdued KDWB Jingle Ball lacks big names, but gets boost from campy Korean pop group (12/4)
Star Tribune: KARE 11 anchor Randy Shaver tackles cancer again (12/1)
Star Tribune: Weekend anchor Cory Hepola announces departure from KARE 11 (11/30)
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Country radio voice Karen Dalessandro lands at WKLH (11/29)
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Paolantonio named co-anchor of WISN-TV?s 6 p.m. news (11/26)
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: WISN-TV has two top-rated newscasts during November (11/26)
Star Tribune: Cities 97.1 morning host Keri Noble leaving the station (11/19)
Star Tribune: WCCO Radio operations manager abruptly leaves station (11/15)
Star Tribune: After 30 years, popular Cities 97 'Sampler' CD comes to an end (11/12)
KCCI: KCCI names Allison Smith news director (11/8)
Star Tribune: Anchor Kelcey Carlson raises profile with new duties at Fox 9 News (11/7)
Star Tribune: Garrison Keillor gets nostalgic in return to Twin Cities stage (11/5)
St. Paul Pioneer Press: Boyd Huppert, Cathy Wurzer look back on radio journalism school marking 50 years (10/28)
MinnPost: Distinctive Grand Rapids-based Northern Community Radio explores the world through a local lens (10/25)
St. Paul Pioneer Press: First Avenue set to buy St. Paul's Fitzgerald Theater from Minnesota Public Radio (10/24)
Star Tribune: KARE's weekend anchor Camille Williams announces her departure (10/24)
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Longtime Milwaukee TV anchor and 'Contact 6' newsman Tom Hooper dies (10/22)
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Wisconsin Broadcasters Association chair-elect Nancy Douglass resigns amid criticism over attack ad targeting Randy Bryce as a 'deadbeat' (10/10)
WLUK-TV: FOX 11's Tom Milbourn announces retirement (10/9) Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Kathy Mykleby, Milwaukee's longest-serving TV news anchor, is retiring from WISN-TV (10/4)
Star Tribune: Mark Rosen announces his departure from WCCO-TV after 50-year career (10/2)
Star Tribune: Has KDWB morning show host Dave Ryan finally grown up? (9/30)
Star Tribune: Leah McLean leaving most KSTP anchor duties, will take on reporting (9/26)
CBC News: Radio host fired over transgender comments sues former employer Rogers for $1.4M (9/20)
KSTP-TV: KQRS Radio Host Tom Barnard, Lawyer's Estate Settle Lawsuit (9/19)
Star Tribune: Chris Thile drops final three members of Garrison Keillor's 'Prairie Home' cast (9/18)
Des Moines Register: Dave Busiek announces his retirement after 29 years as KCCI news director (9/12)
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: A small radio station helped fight racism in Northwoods. Now it's fighting for its life. (9/13)
Duluth News Tribune: Glenn Maxham, Twin Ports broadcasting pioneer, dies at 88 (9/11)
Star Tribune: WCCO's Angela Davis to join MPR as 11 a.m. program host (9/3)
MPR: A career in Hines' sight: Radio legend retires (8/31)
Star Tribune: Patrick Reusse and Joe Soucheray end their KSTP radio show with a few last insults (8/27)
KARE: KARE 11's Randy Shaver diagnosed with prostate cancer (8/27)
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: TV channel-surfing: Start TV and Justice Milwaukee are in, This TV's out, and Movies! is moving (8/27)
Quad City Times: Quad-Cities residents to start local sports radio show (8/18)
Star Tribune: Fox 9's M.A. Rosko leaving the station after 19 years (8/16)
Obituary: Former La Crosse radio station owner Jean Gitz Bassett (8/9)
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: WISN-TV (Channel 12) is adding an hour-long 11 a.m. newscast (8/9)
Star Tribune: Fox 9 meteorologist Steve Frazier dies after battle with pancreatic cancer (8/9)
Star Tribune: WTIP in Grand Marais: A deep-woods dose of radio charm (7/28)
OnMilwaukee: "The Forum" radio show host Sherwin Hughes and WNOV part ways (7/28)
Star Tribune: MPR fires three 'Prairie Home' veterans, including Garrison Keillor's son (7/24)
WDIO-TV: Baldwin Bill Would Import Wisconsin TV to Northwestern Wis. (7/18)
Star Tribune: Lawyer and KFAI radio host Tad Selzer dies at 65 (7/18)
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: DeDe McGuire's Dallas morning show coming to Milwaukee's WJMR-FM (7/18)
Star Tribune: Oklahoma TV anchor to take high-profile position on KSTP's nightly newscasts (7/10)
Star Tribune: Barbara Carlson, former talk radio host, politician and bon vivant, dies at 80 (7/9)
Fargo Forum: Ed Schultz, local and national broadcast personality, died at Washington, D.C., home from natural causes (7/5)
St. Paul Pioneer Press: Two new co-hosts join DJ Barb Abney�s KFAI morning show (7/3)
St. Paul Pioneer Press: FOX 9 taps Tim Blotz, Naomi Pescovitz as co-anchors of new 6:30 p.m. news show (7/3)
Des Moines Register: Outpouring of grief after Des Moines broadcaster Larry Cotlar dies in flash flood (7/1)
NET News: Media of Nebraska Reveals �Think F1rst�, First Amendment Educational Campaign (6/28)
Star Tribune: Rosalie Vascellaro, mom of WCCO anchor who found own TV fame, has died (6/27)
Ottumwa Courier: Ottumwa NBC affiliate plans new nightly newscast (6/22)
Star Tribune: Tom Weber announces he's leaving Minnesota Public Radio (6/13)
Star Tribune: The Frank and Amelia show: Inside the marriage of WCCO's power couple (6/12)
St. Paul Pioneer Press: At missing TV anchor�s 50th birthday, billboard campaign seeks new clues in 1995 case (5/31)
Sioux Falls Argus Leader: Jury: Sunny Radio owner didn't trick Chuck Brennan into buying radio station (5/18)
Star Tribune: The boss who transformed Minnesota public TV is stepping down (5/12)
Star Tribune: Back in the neighborhood: Return to WCCO a treat for Twins Territory (5/10)
Sioux Falls Argus Leader: Sunny Radio suit against Badlands Pawn set for jury trial (4/30)
La Crosse Tribune: La Crosse area radio group settles debt, seeks to end bankruptcy (5/2)
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: TV reporter charged with hitting another reporter at Brewers game 'no longer' with station (4/25)
Star Tribune: MPR News wins prestigious Peabody award for Philando Castile coverage (4/24)
Star Tribune: Sinclair's mandatory TV editorials worry media watchdogs (4/23)
Jamestown Sun: Around the world to the prairie: New KSJB program director worked in Finland, Russia (4/21)
Des Moines Register: The Round Guy is fired from KBOE; longtime media personality says he's done with radio (4/20)
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Let it snow? WLDB-FM brings back holiday music (briefly) to match the weather (4/18)
Star Tribune: Paul Douglas talks conservative values and climate change in PBS' new 'Nova' special (4/16)
Star Tribune: MPR, Garrison Keillor reach agreement (4/13)
Star Tribune: Al Austin, a pioneer in Twin Cities investigative journalism, dies at 83 (4/10)
Star Tribune: WCCO meteorologist Kylie Bearse bids farewell to Minneapolis before heading to Denver (4/2)
Star Tribune: KQ's Tom Barnard, 3 others are newest Minnesota Broadcasting Hall inductees (4/2)
Star Tribune: KLBB-AM, radio home of Stan Turner and Green Bay Packers football, prepares to sign off (3/29)
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Digital TV subchannels Decades, This and Movies! are back on Spectrum cable (3/29)
Duluth News Tribune: 'The little station that could': Grand Marais-based WTIP celebrates 20th year on air (3/25)
St. Paul Pioneer Press: After a half century on the air, Stan Turner is signing off from KLBB -- for now (3/24)
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Grit TV returns to Milwaukee's airwaves � on Channel 4.4 (3/8)
Des Moines Register: Could Meredith buy WHO-TV or KDSM? (3/7)
Star Tribune: Keillor says sex talk was mutual, shares hundreds of e-mails (2/26)
Star Tribune: KARE's McNiff leaving 'Sunrise' for new duties at station (2/19)
Star Tribune: Source of Garrison Keillor allegations shocks those close to radio host (2/16)
MinnPost: Why the Twins returned to WCCO radio (2/15)
Iowa Public Radio: Legendary Iowa Broadcaster and Radio Pioneer Don Forsling Passes Away (2/8)
Star Tribune: KARE news director Jane Helmke steps down (2/12)
Duluth News Tribune: Dylan expert John Bushey dies at 56 (2/10)
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Jerry Bader cites Trump coverage for loss of WTAQ radio show (2/8)
Star Tribune: Carly Zucker's new KFAN show is station's first female-led program in a decade (2/7)
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Scripps, parent of WTMJ-AM and WKTI, putting all of its radio stations up for sale (1/25)
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Reporter/anchor Michele McCormack out after 12 years at WDJT-TV (1/25)
Star Tribune: MPR says woman accused Keillor of 'dozens of sexually inappropriate incidents' (1/23)
Star Tribune: MPR's Tom Weber reassigned because of romantic relationship with Peggy Flanagan (1/12)