Longtime broadcast engineer Bill Meys of Superior, WI, credited with building 26 FM radio stations in northern Minnesota and Wisconsin, has died at the age of 87. Meys’ obituary lists WQMN, WKLK, WAKX, KPIR, WEVE, KXTP, WMFG, KMFG, WHSM, KSCR, and KKIN as stations where he held broadcast engineering roles.
Lee Siegfried, known as “Crazy Cabbie” on the Howard Stern Show, has died at the age of 55. Before working with Stern, Siegfried was in the Twin Cities at KQRS/92.5 and 93.7 “The Edge” (KEGE) in the 1990s.
Hubbard Broadcasting’s KSTC-TV (Minneapolis) has dropped ThisTV from channel 5.6.
Good Karma News/Talker WTMJ/620 (Milwaukee) announced that Brian Noonan will join Kristin Brey as co-host of “Spanning the State,” which airs from 1 to 3 p.m. Noonan previously hosted evenings on the station and has also served as a fill-in host.
Gray Television announced that its in-house news research and consulting group is now providing services to CBS‘ owned-and-operated stations, which include WCCO-TV/4 (Minneapolis).
Gray NBC affiliate KTIV/4 (Sioux City) offered a behind-the-scenes look at the station’s technical setup in a report on its 70th anniversary.
Midwest’s KELO-FM/101.9 (Sioux Falls) celebrated April Fools Day by switching to Christmas music for the entire day.
Outside of the Upper Midwest, Boise State Public Radio has closed on its purchase of KWRV/91.9 (Sun Valley, ID) from Minnesota Public Radio. Listeners may not notice much of a change because Classical 24, the syndicated service that originates at MPR and was already carried on KWRV, makes up the bulk of the schedule on Boise State Public Radio’s music service.
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