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KARE (TV)

May 04, 2024

This article is about the television station formerly known as WUSA. For the sister station in Washington, D.C., that currently uses this call sign, see WUSA (TV).
This article is about the television station formerly known as WTCN-TV. For the station in West Palm Beach, Florida, that currently uses this call sign, see WTCN-CD. For the area station that originally used this callsign, see WCCO-TV.

KARE (channel 11) is a television station licensed to Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, serving as the NBC affiliate for the Twin Cities area. Owned by Tegna Inc., the station maintains studios on Olson Memorial Highway (MN 55) in Golden Valley and a transmitter at the Telefarm site in Shoreview, Minnesota.

KARE
CityMinneapolis, Minnesota
Channels
BrandingKARE 11 (pronounced "Care")
Programming
Affiliations
Ownership
Owner
History
First air date
September 1, 1953
(70 years ago) (1953-09-01)
Former call signs
  • WTCN-TV (1953–1985)
  • WMIN-TV (shared operation, 1953–1955)
  • WUSA (1985–1986)
Former channel number(s)
  • Analog: 11 (VHF, 1953–2009)
  • Digital: 35 (UHF, 1999–2009), 11 (VHF, 2009–2021)
Call sign meaning
Sounds like "care"
Technical information[1]
Licensing authority
FCC
Facility ID23079
ERP1,000 kW[2]
HAAT455.9 m (1,496 ft)[2]
Transmitter coordinates45°3′45″N 93°8′22″W / 45.06250°N 93.13944°W / 45.06250; -93.13944
Translator(s)see § Translators
Links
Public license information
  • Public file
  • LMS
Websitewww.kare11.com

Channel 11 began broadcasting on September 1, 1953. It was originally shared by two stations: WMIN-TV in St. Paul and WTCN-TV in Minneapolis, which alternated presenting local programs and shared an affiliation with ABC. In 1955, Consolidated Television and Radio bought both stations and merged them as WTCN-TV from the Minneapolis studios in the Calhoun Beach Hotel. The station presented several regionally and nationally notable children's shows in its early years as well as local cooking, news, and sports programs. Time Inc. purchased the station in 1957. Under its ownership, ABC switched its affiliation to KMSP-TV (channel 9), leaving channel 11 to become an independent station that broadcast the Minnesota Twins, movies, and syndicated programs. This continued under two successive owners: Chris-Craft Industries and Metromedia. By the late 1970s, WTCN-TV was one of the most financially successful independent stations in the U.S.

In 1978, ABC announced it would move its Twin Cities affiliation to KSTP-TV. This forced NBC to select between KMSP and WTCN for its new local outlet. It chose WTCN over KMSP on the strength of its facilities, ownership, and promise to build a first-class news operation, for which KMSP had never been known as an ABC station. On March 5, 1979, channel 11 became an NBC affiliate and began broadcasting NewsCenter 11 newscasts. The much-ballyhooed news product was a high-profile commercial failure, beaten by entertainment shows on KMSP in the ratings, as viewers rejected the new news team and continued to prefer market leaders WCCO-TV and KSTP.

Metromedia agreed to buy Chicago independent station WFLD in 1982 and sold WTCN-TV to the Gannett Company to raise capital and make room in its station group. Gannett engineered a comprehensive overhaul of the station's news programming. Between 1983 and 1987, the station moved from last to first in late news ratings, battling with WCCO-TV for two decades. It changed call signs twice in that period, to WUSA in 1985 and KARE in 1986 when Gannett moved the WUSA call sign to its station in Washington, D.C.

Early years edit

WMIN-TV and WTCN-TV: The shared-time era edit

The WMIN Broadcasting Company of St. Paul applied in February 1948 for a new station licensed to that city on channel 2.[3] The application was frozen when the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) halted all grants of new TV stations in 1948.[4]

In February 1952—two months before the FCC lifted the freeze[5]—the Minnesota Television Public Service Corporation, a company headed by former ambassador Robert Butler and headquartered in St. Paul, filed for television channel 11 in Minneapolis.[6] Weeks later, Mid Continent Radio Television, which owned station WTCN-TV on channel 4 as well as WTCN (1280 AM), announced it would take over WCCO radio, merge it with channel 4, and divest WTCN radio.[7] Minnesota Television Public Service then acquired WTCN radio, which had to be sold to allow Mid Continent to purchase WCCO.[8] The transactions were approved in August 1952, at which time channel 4 changed from WTCN-TV to WCCO-TV.[9]

After the freeze was lifted, WMIN refiled its pre-freeze application in July to specify channel 11,[10] as channel 2 had been set aside for educational broadcasting by the FCC.[11] Later that month, Meredith Publishing filed for channel 11 in Minneapolis alongside stations in Rochester, New York, and St. Louis.[12] Meredith owned three stations and had three pending station applications when the FCC ruled that companies could only have as many applications as additional stations it could own—the limit being five—in February 1953.[13] With six stations and applications for stations, the company was one over the limit; it then dropped out of the channel 11 fight. WMIN and WTCN—each seeking to avoid a lengthy comparative hearing—proposed to share time on channel 11, which the FCC accepted in April 1953.[14]

 
 
The Hamm Building (above) housed the studios of WMIN-TV between 1953 and 1955, while WTCN-TV originated from the Calhoun Beach Hotel between 1953 and 1974.

On September 1, 1953, channel 11 began broadcasting. At 2 p.m., viewers saw the first programs from WMIN-TV: a news show, the women's program Talk About the Town, and a movie. Two hours later, WTCN-TV greeted viewers with a dedication, cooking show Man Around the House, and a teen music bandstand program, Corner Drug.[15] Channel 11's signal originated from the Foshay Tower in downtown Minneapolis;[16] the tower had a master antenna setup inspired by the Empire State Building in New York, including the antenna for WCCO-TV and provision for antennas for channels 9 and 11 before any applicant had a construction permit for them.[17]

 
The Foshay Tower was designed to transmit channel 11 even before a construction permit had been awarded and did so between 1953 and 1971.

The transmitter and antenna was the only physical facility shared by the stations. While WMIN-TV and WTCN-TV were affiliates of ABC, in keeping with WTCN radio,[18] their programs and even network shows during each station's airtime originated from separate facilities. WMIN-TV set up in the former WMIN radio studios in the Hamm Building in St. Paul, the radio station having relocated to its transmitter site;[19] it had no film developing equipment, so films had to be airmailed to and from sister station KELO-TV in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, before air.[20] WTCN-TV established itself in the Calhoun Beach Hotel in Minneapolis. The hotel offered the station the use of its ballroom; its former gymnasium, left unfinished when the former beach club converted to a hotel, became the largest TV studio to that time in the Twin Cities.[19]

Each station offered its own local programs. WMIN-TV had the children's show Captain 11, featuring host Jim Lange[21] in a space-themed outfit.[22][a] It also featured Wrangler Steve, a host of Westerns played by WMIN radio disc jockey Steve Cannon.[21] For kids, WTCN-TV had the clown J. P. Patches, originally played by Daryl Laub and then by Chris Wedes.[27] Wedes left for the new KIRO-TV in Seattle in 1958;[28] Patches aired on the Seattle station until ending his run there 1981.[29] For 19 years on WTCN-TV, Roger Awsumb played Casey Jones on the station's Lunch with Casey.[21]

By 1954, channel 11 was offering some programming from the DuMont Television Network,[30] though the network's shows moved to new station KEYD-TV (channel 9) when it launched in January 1955.[31]

Consolidated consolidation and purchase by Time, Inc. edit

Consolidated Television and Radio Broadcasters of Indianapolis, a company owned by the Bitner family, agreed to acquire WTCN radio and television and WMIN-TV in January 1955 for about $3 million. Bitner believed that channel 11 made for an attractive purchase because it was hampered by its shared status.[32] It announced that it would keep the WTCN-TV call letters.[33] When Consolidated completed the purchase in April, WMIN-TV left the air and merged into the full-time WTCN-TV. At that time, Consolidated consolidated the station's activities at the WTCN-TV studios in Minneapolis and closed the WMIN-TV facilities in St. Paul, with only a handful of WMIN-TV technical employees not continuing with channel 11.[34] During this time, the station affiliated with the NTA Film Network, which began in 1956.[35]

The Bitner group had owned the WTCN stations for less than two years when it announced the sale of three of its broadcasting properties—the WTCN stations, WFBM radio and television in Indianapolis, and WLAV radio and television in Grand Rapids, Michigan—to Time, Inc. in December 1956. The $15.75 million deal came after the Crowell-Collier Publishing Company backed out of a transaction for the stations plus WFDF in Flint, Michigan.[36] FCC approval followed in April 1957.[37] Time improved station revenues by expanding its movie library and sharpening its promotion of feature films.[38] It offered a large schedule of local sports, including Minneapolis Millers minor-league baseball, which WTCN radio broadcast all season long; the station cut back its sports broadcasts on radio and TV due to difficulty selling advertising time and intense competition, particularly for the radio broadcasts of Minnesota Golden Gophers football.[39]

As an independent station edit

 
Roger Awsumb played Casey Jones on WTCN-TV's Lunch with Casey children's show for nearly two decades.

Loss of ABC affiliation edit

By the start of the 1960s, Time's relationship with ABC had become strained. Variety reported in March 1960 that station management was insisting on a protection clause, a guarantee that ABC would not go to KMSP-TV (channel 9), an independent station then owned by 20th Century Fox.[40] KMSP-TV was already carrying some ABC shows that were not seen on channel 11's schedule.[41] These rumblings proved true. In January 1961, ABC announced it would move its programs to KMSP-TV effective April 16.[42]

The newly independent channel 11 became the market's first station to telecast major league baseball with the newly relocated Minnesota Twins; while WCCO-TV had agreed to broadcast the games, CBS refused to allow the station to preempt prime time network programs for baseball, forcing channel 4 to back out. The station agreed to telecast 50 night and weekend games, simulcast with WCCO radio, with Bob Wolff and Ray Scott as announcers.[43] The Twins, movies, and feature programs became the station's top program draws,[44] as well as newscasts timed to air just before the network affiliates, including hourly newsbreaks and a 9 p.m. newscast.[45] To support its new local programming, the station expanded its footprint in the Calhoun Beach Hotel to include space on the lower level and acquired new equipment.[46] Despite this, Time noted in its annual report that losing ABC was "forcing a re-adjustment to the economies of independent television station operations" at channel 11.[47]

The Twins proved key to channel 11's survival without a network affiliation. Telecasts reached audience shares averaging 58 percent and as high as 79 percent in 1962. A major advertising contract with Hamm's beer for the baseball games helped the station acquire programming and get on steadier footing—its first profitable footing in its ten-year history. An American Research Bureau report found that the station had the largest relative audience share of any independent in the country, even in months without baseball. Twins games catapulted channel 11 onto cable systems far from the Twin Cities, including Mankato and Rochester, Minnesota, and Eau Claire and La Crosse, Wisconsin. Building on the success of the Twins telecasts, the station sought to build its image as a sports outlet by adding studio wrestling and college sports to its lineup.[48]

Chris-Craft ownership edit

In the three years Time owned WTCN-TV as an independent, it negotiated with several groups to sell the television station and WTCN radio. In July 1961, Variety reported that Chicago-based WGN Inc. was considering buying WTCN-TV from Time;[49] other buyers looked at and passed on the station at this time.[48] A Twin Cities–based consortium agreed to pay $2 million for the WTCN stations in 1963 but failed to come up with the money.[50] Chris-Craft Industries agreed to purchase WTCN-TV alone for $4 million in a deal announced in May 1964; it was the company's third TV property after two other independents, KCOP in Los Angeles and KPTV in Portland, Oregon.[51][52] WTCN radio was sold separately to the Buckley-Jaeger Company[53] and became WWTC on October of that year.[54]

Chris-Craft fortified the station's children's and movie offerings to complement its strong sports coverage. The children's relaunch included a kids club and 6+1⁄2 hours a day of weekday shows promoted as "Kidville 11".[55] The company stated in its 1965 annual report that WTCN-TV's performance "exceeded expectations".[56] By 1966, the Twins games were being fed by WTCN-TV to a network of 15 television stations,[57] which grew to 16 with the inclusion of WVTV in Milwaukee the next year;[58] the Twins were joined on channel 11 in 1967 by the new Minnesota North Stars hockey team.[59]

In June 1971, WTCN-TV joined other local stations in moving its tower to the Telefarm site in Shoreview, Minnesota. The relocation to the newer, taller masts was necessitated because of the construction of the IDS Center, a Minneapolis skyscraper that shaded many viewers from the Foshay Tower site.[60][61] The new tower, which was shared by the former Foshay stations—WCCO-TV, KSTP-TV, and WTCN-TV—collapsed on September 7 during further construction work,[62] killing seven workers.[63] In lieu of the collapsed candelabra, Telefarm proposed constructing one tower for WTCN-TV and an FM station and another for WCCO and KSTP.[64] The replacements were erected in late 1972.[65]

Metromedia ownership edit

We are in negotiations for a very large station and, frankly, we need the cash. ... We're sorry to sell it. We did a lot for them and it did a lot for us. It was a loser when we bought it.

A Chris-Craft official, on selling WTCN-TV[66]

Chris-Craft announced the sale of WTCN-TV to Metromedia for $18 million on July 29, 1971. Chris-Craft sold the station as part of its pursuit of a large-market VHF television station elsewhere.[67][66] After taking over, Metromedia made major changes in the station's programming. Citing declining ratings and a company policy against live children's hosts, Lunch with Casey finished its run at the end of 1972. Channel 11 dropped the Twins, also due to falling viewership, with the team moving telecasts to WCCO-TV;[68] the team returned to channel 11 in 1975.[69] Under Metromedia, WTCN-TV became one of the nation's most financially lucrative independent stations,[70] even though it was less profitable than the network affiliates.[71]

Metromedia's purchase of WTCN-TV included a parcel of land at the corner of Boone Avenue and Minnesota State Highway 55 in Golden Valley, intended for the construction of new studios.[66] Metromedia broke ground on a $5 million, 65,000-square-foot (6,000 m2) studio complex on the site in May 1973; it featured two broadcast studios, an outdoor sculpture garden, and space for Metromedia's corporate art collection.[72]

While the network affiliates intensified their competition for the news audience, WTCN's small news effort—a 9:30 p.m. newscast known as Total News—barely registered as a news source in the community, though it was just behind the anemic KMSP-TV in total viewers.[73] Until moving to Golden Valley, all the station's news film was developed by a company in downtown Minneapolis that closed at dinnertime, preventing the broadcast of late-breaking news items.[74] Gil Amundson doubled as the news director and anchor for the program. WTCN had the only TV news staff in the market without a professional meteorologist.[73]

Affiliating with NBC edit

KMSP-TV, the ABC affiliate in the Twin Cities, was a distant third place in the news ratings race. Channel 9 was traditionally the most profitable station in the market, but under Donald Swartz, it was a lean operation with a reputation for penny-pinching.[71] As early as 1974, KMSP was rumored to have made changes to its news operation to appease the network, which threatened to affiliate with WTCN,[74] and further rumors of network dissatisfaction with KMSP's news effort surfaced in 1977.[70] Channel 9's news budget was reportedly less than half that of WCCO-TV or KSTP-TV. In the late 1970s, as ABC soared to number one in the national ratings, it began a campaign to upgrade its affiliate base and put out feelers to WCCO-TV, KSTP-TV, and WTCN-TV.[75] KSTP-TV, the NBC affiliate and the market's news ratings leader, wished to expand its signal beyond the Twin Cities to take advantage of recently relaxed rules relating to the feeding of broadcast translators by microwave transmission,[75] and there were fewer ABC affiliates in surrounding areas—notably Alexandria and Eau Claire—than NBC affiliates. On August 29, 1978, KSTP announced it would switch from NBC to ABC in March 1979, ending a 50-year relationship between KSTP and NBC stretching back to the days of radio.[70] The size of the market and tenure of KSTP with NBC made the switch particularly stunning;[75] KSTP's defection was seen as a coup, the largest engineered by the network.[76][77]

Even before KSTP's affiliation switch was publicly announced, NBC reached out to Metromedia as it began to evaluate KMSP-TV and WTCN-TV for potential affiliation with the network.[70] As part of the process, it reached out to former employees of KMSP-TV, at least one of whom told NBC that its management "didn't care about news" and that it was "a stepchild of their operation".[78] At the end of September, NBC announced its decision: it would affiliate with WTCN-TV.[79] The network picked channel 11 over channel 9 on the strength of its facilities and performance.[80]

In reaching a deal, Metromedia promised NBC that it would launch a "first-class news operation" for the station, which was weak in the area of news (though better than many independents[81]) and had a news staff totaling 10 people at the time.[80] Most of the $4 million Metromedia spent ahead of the affiliation switch was invested in the news department, on new reporters, largely coming from TV stations in the South; a new news set; weather radar; and electronic news gathering, replacing film.[82] The only member of the news department who did not continue after the switch was weather anchor Toni Hughes, who had presented channel 11's weathercasts for a decade; she was dismissed because she was not a meteorologist, and though she was technically a freelancer, her duties for WTCN prevented her from immediately seeking similar employment in the market.[83]

WTCN-TV became the NBC affiliate for the Twin Cities on March 5, 1979. Ahead of the switch, the station launched a $1 million promotional campaign titled "We've Got It Now", featuring billboards of such NBC stars as Johnny Carson, a visit by network president Fred Silverman and other NBC stars, and the live broadcast of Today from Minneapolis.[84] That same day, NewsCenter 11 launched with weeknight news anchor Jim Dyer, meteorologist Glenn Burns, and sportscaster Bob Kurtz.[82]

NewsCenter 11 arrived on the air as a strident production that local viewers instantly recognized as foreign to their tastes. From its sickening theme music to its cream puff wrap-up features by Chick McCuen, NewsCenter 11 has been a commercial failure.

John Carman, The Minneapolis Star[85]

NewsCenter 11: Lackluster performance edit

NewsCenter 11 was a ratings and critical disaster. Neal Gendler in the Minneapolis Tribune was unimpressed and found the program pedestrian and formulaic, overdone, and out of tune with Twin Cities viewers' tastes. He criticized Kurtz for laughing at skiers in bikinis and stated, "Someone also ought to let him in on a fact of Minnesota life: Sexism is out of style."[86] John Carman of The Minneapolis Star called it "a near-perfect case history of how not to put together a successful and respected news operation", calling its format too conventional and Gil Amundson (himself relieved of news director duties) too weak of a leader. Carman and Karl Vick (also of The Minneapolis Star) assigned some blame for the failure to the direction of the station by out-of-town consultants—particularly Ted Kavanau, the former news director of Metromedia's WNEW-TV in New York[87]—and executives unfamiliar with the market.[85] Where Kavanau wanted a tabloid-style newscast in the mold of WNEW and hired people for such a program, general manager Robert Fransen believed a more conventional format was advisable and prevailed.[87]

In its first ratings survey, the station placed fourth out of three newscasts (and KMSP) at 6 p.m.,[88] enough to be described as "about as popular as the measles" by Vick in The Star;[89] its performance was so poor that the station, having pledged advertisers a certain level of viewership, had to offer costly makegood ads.[85] During NBC prime time, the station had 21 percent of the audience, half of which left for other stations during the 10 p.m. news, but viewers returned to channel 11 to watch The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. The station attracted 8 to 10 percent of the evening news audience, far behind KSTP and WCCO, which commanded shares of 30 percent or more. The station's poor performance also sank the NBC network newscasts, which fell to third place.[90] Meanwhile, freed of its network programming and having picked up the North Stars[91] and Twins[92] rights, KMSP-TV became one of the nation's leading independents, beating NewsCenter 11 in the ratings just as WTCN had done when KMSP was an ABC affiliate.[90][87] Kevin O'Brien, WTCN's general manager at the time, later told The Mercury News that switching to NBC "tore that station asunder because we didn't have that much time to plan such a dramatic change".[93]

While the news product improved under new news director Brink Chipman and as reporters settled into the market,[87] turmoil engulfed the troubled newsroom. An investigative reporter was fired in July before her reports even appeared on air due to poor-quality work.[88] Dyer, unhappy nearly from the start, was switched with weekend anchor Stan Bohrman in August and left in December.[94] At year's end, Kurtz was taken off the weeknight newscasts and replaced with Tom Ryther, formerly of KSTP-TV, returning to the Twin Cities from WKYC-TV in Cleveland.[90] Burns was the last of the original three news presenters to remain with WTCN; in January 1982, he accepted a position with WSB-TV in Atlanta,[95] where he would spend 40 years.[96] Ratings improved modestly when channel 11 shifted its early newscast from 6 to 5:30 p.m., moving it out of direct competition with WCCO and KSTP, though it still trailed the national newscasts they offered at that time.[97] This did not stanch turmoil in the newsroom, nor did it forestall Metromedia from shuttering the profitable Metro Productions commercial production unit of WTCN in December 1980.[98] In early 1982, the station temporarily lost the ability to air the Tonight Show because NBC was upset with WTCN for running it on a half-hour delay.[99] One bright spot for the station was a 1982 series on herpes reported by anchor John Bachman, Herpes Is Forever, which won an Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Award.[100]

Gannett purchase and news overhaul edit

In August 1982, Metromedia agreed to buy WFLD, an independent station in Chicago. It needed to sell one TV station and a Chicago radio station to stay within ownership limits, but it chose to divest itself of a second TV station to raise the money necessary for the $136 million purchase—the second-highest for a single station[101]—without incurring debt.[102] First to be sold was WXIX-TV, an independent station in Cincinnati,[103] followed by WTCN-TV, acquired by the Gannett Company for $75 million.[104][101] Gannett, in turn, needed to sell one VHF television station to make room in its portfolio[105] and chose KARK-TV in Little Rock, Arkansas, for divestiture.[106]

We're coming in here humbly with the understanding that we have a lot of problems and trying to figure out what we have to do in order to do a good news job. Gannett is in the news business, and that's what we're proud of. We better have the best source of local news and information that we can offer to the public or else we're down the drain.

Jeffrey Davidson, president of broadcasting, Gannett[107]

Gannett took control of WTCN in April 1983 and began implementing a top-to-bottom overhaul of the station's local news programming, promising to raise its quality to match WCCO and KSTP. A new station manager and vice president of news were brought in, both from KBTV, Gannett's market-leading station in Denver, to replace the existing management which remained with Metromedia.[108] Armed with research identifying WCCO and KSTP as having older-skewing viewership and seeing a void for a newscast for a younger audience,[109] the station added as many as 40 new staff members[110] to add to the 40 that it had at the time of purchase—compared to 100 apiece for the newsrooms at WCCO-TV and KSTP-TV.[107] To keep pace with its competitors, the station acquired a news helicopter as well as new news vehicles and cameras.[110]

Gannett filled the meteorologist position, left unfilled on a permanent basis since Burns's departure in January 1982, by hiring Paul Douglas, who had worked for the Satellite News Channel.[108] The station cut a hole through the wall of its studio to create an outdoor weather set for Douglas's forecasts. It replaced the existing anchor pairing of John Bachman and Cora-Ann Mihalik[b] with Paul Magers and Diana Pierce, both hired in August from California stations.[113] The station increased its emphasis on news photography; in addition to hiring anchors, it hired new news photographers.[114] The station's newscasts, known as 11 News, were changed to News 11.[113]

The revamped newscasts debuted quietly in September 1983.[115] Ratings did not improve immediately,[116] but they began to rise slowly as early as November 1983.[117] By November 1984, the station had increased its audience share at 10 p.m. to 15 percent, a significant increase from a year prior.[118] The gap with second-place KSTP narrowed as the station increased its audience share to 23 percent by February 1986.[119]

Two call sign changes in a year edit

The FCC liberalized rules around call signs in late 1983.[120] Gannett—the publisher of USA Today—acquired the rights to the call sign KUSA in early 1984 and won approval to use the letters on the former KBTV in Denver after years of being stymied under the old rules.[121] While Gannett initially intended to do the same immediately after acquiring WTCN-TV, it instead focused on rebuilding the news operation and beating back a challenge to the KUSA assignment from the USA Network cable service. After Gannett won that fight, it sought and received permission to change WTCN-TV's call sign to WUSA effective July 4, 1985. The new designation replaced WTCN-TV—a call sign associated with the station's independent days—at a time when the station was finally becoming a local news competitor.[122]

The WUSA call letters lasted less than one year in Minneapolis. Gannett acquired the Evening News Association in February 1986; among its holdings was WDVM, the CBS affiliate in Washington, D.C., near Gannett's corporate headquarters.[123] From the moment Gannett took that station over, it mulled moving the WUSA call letters to Washington.[124] In March, John Carmody of The Washington Post reported that Gannett had instructed the Minneapolis station to come up with a new call sign.[125] The station reached a deal with a radio station in Atchison, Kansas, to use the call sign KARE and switched to it on June 11.[126] The new designation was in keeping with the station's heavy community service component since its acquisition by Gannett, including an awards event titled "11 Who Care".[127] This freed the Washington station to switch to WUSA.[128]

Ratings rise edit

We questioned their news judgment. Was it news, or news entertainment? ... This place said we'd get our news from lots of different places, not just the Capitol, City Hall, the courts and the classic news beats, but from within the community. They got out and talked to people, they found things that were interesting, not necessarily newsworthy. They looked for story ideas by listening to what people were talking about.

Tom Lindner, WCCO-TV news manager and producer in the 1980s, later KARE news director[114]

Channel 11's rising news fortunes continued after the call sign change to KARE, coinciding with a turnaround in ratings for the NBC network.[129] Weeks after becoming KARE came another pivotal moment. On July 18, 1986, helicopter pilot Max Messmer was in the air headed to an assignment when he heard that a tornado was on the ground in Fridley. He piloted Sky 11 to the scene and ad-libbed commentary as the aircraft flew within a quarter-mile of the tornado.[130] The tornado coverage aired live on KARE's 5 p.m. newscast, providing startling pictures of the storm. It was the first time a tornado had been filmed from creation to dissipation. The newscast was a ratings milestone for the station—in 2011, Douglas recalled that it led many WCCO and KSTP viewers to sample KARE's news—and the raw footage was widely requested by scientists and meteorologists.[131]

In 1986, the station took the lead among the coveted demographic of adults 25–54, a demographic with which it would place first in all but one ratings survey between that year and 2000.[132] In October 1986, the station notched its first-ever second-place finish in local news ratings, sending KSTP-TV's 10 p.m. news to third. Despite this achievement, the station lagged badly in early evening news, contending that its younger viewers were still at work and not able to watch 5 or 6 p.m. newscasts.[133] The July 1987 sweeps period brought another historic achievement for KARE: it finished first at 10 p.m., with an audience share of 29 percent.[134] This momentum was sustained through late 1987 and early 1988, even as an expansion to the Twin Cities market gave WCCO an edge in counting viewers in Alexandria.[135][136] KARE attracted criticism for the different style of its newscasts: stylish and designed to draw an emotional response. The latter was evident in its photojournalism style, which the Star Tribune later described as "highly visual and emotional"; KARE became a regular winner of National Press Photographers Association awards.[114] This prompted WCCO-TV, a station known for its hard news format, to become more image-conscious,[129] and the other TV news outlets in the Twin Cities began incorporating longer, photojournalism-driven stories into their newscasts.[114] KARE became the first Twin Cities station to offer closed captioning of its local news in 1988.[137] When the Minnesota Poll in 1988 found KARE's viewership concentrated among young adults, Noel Holston of the Star Tribune predicted that the station could be dominant "for years to come" based on the age of its news watchers.[109]

In September 1988, Pat Miles left her job at WCCO-TV and signed a five-year agreement to work at KARE, including a year where she could not appear on camera under a non-compete clause. The pact brought Miles, who wanted more personal time, together with channel 11, seeking an anchor to improve the lagging ratings of its early evening newscasts.[138] Meanwhile, WCCO found renewed ratings strength and pushed KARE back to second.[139][140]

Under the leadership of general manager Linda Rios Brook, from 1989 to 1991, the station tried several unsuccessful initiatives, most notably a morning talk show titled Between Friends that failed to make an impact in the ratings, but its newscasts regained the local news lead for the first time in several years. Rios Brook resigned after mixed programming results and a controversy over her evangelical Christianity[141] and resurfaced in the market as the president and general manager of family-oriented KLGT.[142] At KARE, she was replaced by Hank Price, who had managed WFMY-TV in Greensboro, North Carolina.[141]

In the early 1990s, two of the original team of anchors that made KARE a competitor in the 1980s left. The more acrimonious departure was that of sportscaster Tom Ryther, who was forced out in 1991 after filing an age discrimination lawsuit against the station. Ryther's complaint alleged that his job duties had been progressively reduced in order to bring younger faces—such as his replacement, Jeff Passolt—on screen instead.[143] KARE defended its actions by pointing to research from 1990 that it conducted on local TV personalities.[144] Ryther's lawsuit against the station was successful; a jury issued a $715,000 judgment in his favor in 1993;[145] KARE appealed, but a federal appeals court upheld the original verdict in 1996,[144] and the Supreme Court rejected KARE's final appeal in 1997.[146] In 1994, Douglas departed KARE in search of a job closer to family in the eastern U.S.[147] Douglas was replaced by weekend meteorologist Ken Barlow on the weeknight newscasts.[148]

The 1990s were a decade of strength for KARE news. The station continued its domination of households 25–54 while narrowly trailing or narrowly leading WCCO-TV in total ratings in late news, though channel 4 had more total viewers for its early evening newscasts.[149][150] During the decade, KARE added Saturday morning newscasts, in 1992.[151]

KARE aired the locally produced game show Let's Bowl for several years in the late 1990s; it ran after Saturday Night Live. The audience support for the program was sufficient to help its creators, Tim Scott and Rick Kronfeld, secure a pickup for their show from the Comedy Central cable channel.[152]

Post-2000 edit

KARE launched a high-definition digital signal on channel 35 on August 31, 2001.[153] KARE and WCCO on the Telefarm tower had intended to launch digital service as early as November 1999,[154] but bad weather and high demand for tower crews stalled the project.[155]

 
KARE at the Minnesota State Fair, 2006

Magers—the anchor commonly credited with helping KARE remain number one in late evening news—departed the station in late 2003 to work for KCBS-TV in Los Angeles, ending the Magers–Pierce tandem that had become the longest-running anchor duo in the Twin Cities.[156] Without Magers—and what competitor Don Shelby called his "magical formula"[157]—on channel 11, interest heightened in the local stations' ratings performance.[158] The competition was spousal: Frank Vascellaro, the man hired to replace Magers on the anchor desk, was the husband of WCCO evening news anchor Amelia Santaniello.[159] Vascellaro's departure in 2005 coincided with that of Barlow, who was hired away by WBZ-TV in Boston.[160] In the wake of these departures and the replacement of Vascellaro with Mike Pomeranz on the anchor desk,[160] WCCO slowly crept closer to KARE and then took the lead from channel 11 in 2006, with a swing of three percent of the audience share to WCCO.[161] When Pomeranz left to take a position with the San Diego Padres in 2006, sports anchor Randy Shaver moved to the news desk.[162]

The station experimented with several formats for its mid-morning program. In 2006, it replaced KARE 11 Today with a new program, Showcase Minnesota, that also featured advertiser-paid sponsored segments.[163] It was replaced in 2011 with a revival of KARE 11 Today; Pierce left her evening anchor duties to host the revamped show and KARE's 4 p.m. newscast.[164]

The loss of ratings momentum continued in the early 2010s, as KARE slumped while WCCO locked up most of the number-one positions by demographic and time slot.[165] A special month of newscasts by WCCO led that station to its first 25–54 win in late news since 1986.[166] While KARE has been competitive since—particularly in the 25–54 demographic—WCCO has generally been the market leader in total viewers.[167][168] Pierce retired in 2016 after taking a buyout package offered by Tegna,[169] which became the new name for the former Gannett broadcast division when its TV stations and newspapers split into separate companies in 2015.[170]

The KARE newsroom won multiple national journalism awards in the late 2010s and early 2020s. Three different investigative series together won the Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Award in 2017,[171] followed by two awards in 2020 for On the Veteran Beat and Love Them First.[172] An investigation on prisons, Cruel and Unusual, won the duPont–Columbia in 2022,[173] The next year, the station won another duPont–Columbia for a series on violent criminals titled The Gap: Failure to Treat, Failure to Protect.[174] This series also won a Peabody Award, the second for the station after a joint award to KARE and KUSA in Denver in 2022.[175]

KARE, which relocated its digital signal from its pre-transition UHF channel 35 to VHF channel 11 upon the digital transition in 2009,[176] was approved in 2020 to relocate to UHF channel 31 to aid reception after the spectrum incentive auction.[2] The station switched to the new UHF signal on October 20, 2021.[177]

Notable on-air staff edit

Current edit

Former edit

Technical information edit

 
KARE's tower site at the Telefarm Towers in Shoreview, Minnesota

Subchannels edit

The station's signal is multiplexed:

Subchannels of KARE[184]
Channel Res. Aspect Short name Programming
11.1 1080i 16:9 KARE-HD NBC
11.2 480i CourtTV Court TV
11.3 Crime True Crime Network
11.4 Quest Quest
11.5 Nest The Nest
11.7 Crime True Crime Network
11.8 HSN HSN
23.5 480i 16:9 Rewind Rewind TV (WUCW)
  Broadcast on behalf of another station

Translators edit

 
  • Transmitter locations for KARE's translator network. Click on each marker to reveal details.
    •   Originating station
    •   Low-power translators

In addition to the main transmitter in Shoreview, KARE's signal is relayed to outlying parts of Minnesota through a network of translators owned by various translator associations.[185]

KARE formerly had a translator serving Breezy Point and Brainerd, KLKS-LP (channel 14), which was owned by the Lakes Broadcasting Group, owner of KLKS radio. The repeater signed on in 1995 and operated until July 16, 2011, when its use as a repeater of KARE was discontinued due to a corporate decision made by Gannett management.[186]

Notes edit

  1. ^ KELO-TV cloned Captain 11 for itself. In 1955, it sent Dave Dedrick to WMIN-TV to learn the role.[23] In Sioux Falls, the program ran for 41 years until Dedrick's retirement in December 1996.[24][25][26]
  2. ^ Mihalik's tenure at WTCN was extremely short-lived. She arrived at the station in January as a weekend anchor, was promoted to weeknight news in June,[111] was demoted back to weekends with the hiring of Magers and Pierce, then left at the end of November for WLS-TV in Chicago.[112]

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External links edit

  • Minnesota Bound
  • TC Media Now - historical footage and documents from WTCN/WUSA/KARE
  • KARE 1986 Tornado coverage
  • Historical photos of WTCN-TV and WTCN Radio from the Minnesota Historical Society

May 04, 2024
kare, this, article, about, television, station, formerly, known, wusa, sister, station, washington, that, currently, uses, this, call, sign, wusa, this, article, about, television, station, formerly, known, wtcn, station, west, palm, beach, florida, that, cur. This article is about the television station formerly known as WUSA For the sister station in Washington D C that currently uses this call sign see WUSA TV This article is about the television station formerly known as WTCN TV For the station in West Palm Beach Florida that currently uses this call sign see WTCN CD For the area station that originally used this callsign see WCCO TV KARE channel 11 is a television station licensed to Minneapolis Minnesota United States serving as the NBC affiliate for the Twin Cities area Owned by Tegna Inc the station maintains studios on Olson Memorial Highway MN 55 in Golden Valley and a transmitter at the Telefarm site in Shoreview Minnesota KAREMinneapolis Saint Paul MinnesotaUnited StatesCityMinneapolis MinnesotaChannelsDigital 31 UHF Virtual 11BrandingKARE 11 pronounced Care ProgrammingAffiliations11 1 NBCfor others see SubchannelsOwnershipOwnerTegna Inc Multimedia Holdings Corporation HistoryFirst air dateSeptember 1 1953 70 years ago 1953 09 01 Former call signsWTCN TV 1953 1985 WMIN TV shared operation 1953 1955 WUSA 1985 1986 Former channel number s Analog 11 VHF 1953 2009 Digital 35 UHF 1999 2009 11 VHF 2009 2021 Former affiliationsABC 1953 1961 Independent 1961 1979 DuMont secondary 1953 1956 Call sign meaningSounds like care Technical information 1 Licensing authorityFCCFacility ID23079ERP1 000 kW 2 HAAT455 9 m 1 496 ft 2 Transmitter coordinates45 3 45 N 93 8 22 W 45 06250 N 93 13944 W 45 06250 93 13944Translator s see TranslatorsLinksPublic license informationPublic fileLMSWebsitewww wbr kare11 wbr com Channel 11 began broadcasting on September 1 1953 It was originally shared by two stations WMIN TV in St Paul and WTCN TV in Minneapolis which alternated presenting local programs and shared an affiliation with ABC In 1955 Consolidated Television and Radio bought both stations and merged them as WTCN TV from the Minneapolis studios in the Calhoun Beach Hotel The station presented several regionally and nationally notable children s shows in its early years as well as local cooking news and sports programs Time Inc purchased the station in 1957 Under its ownership ABC switched its affiliation to KMSP TV channel 9 leaving channel 11 to become an independent station that broadcast the Minnesota Twins movies and syndicated programs This continued under two successive owners Chris Craft Industries and Metromedia By the late 1970s WTCN TV was one of the most financially successful independent stations in the U S In 1978 ABC announced it would move its Twin Cities affiliation to KSTP TV This forced NBC to select between KMSP and WTCN for its new local outlet It chose WTCN over KMSP on the strength of its facilities ownership and promise to build a first class news operation for which KMSP had never been known as an ABC station On March 5 1979 channel 11 became an NBC affiliate and began broadcasting NewsCenter 11 newscasts The much ballyhooed news product was a high profile commercial failure beaten by entertainment shows on KMSP in the ratings as viewers rejected the new news team and continued to prefer market leaders WCCO TV and KSTP Metromedia agreed to buy Chicago independent station WFLD in 1982 and sold WTCN TV to the Gannett Company to raise capital and make room in its station group Gannett engineered a comprehensive overhaul of the station s news programming Between 1983 and 1987 the station moved from last to first in late news ratings battling with WCCO TV for two decades It changed call signs twice in that period to WUSA in 1985 and KARE in 1986 when Gannett moved the WUSA call sign to its station in Washington D C Contents 1 Early years 1 1 WMIN TV and WTCN TV The shared time era 1 2 Consolidated consolidation and purchase by Time Inc 2 As an independent station 2 1 Loss of ABC affiliation 2 2 Chris Craft ownership 2 3 Metromedia ownership 3 Affiliating with NBC 3 1 NewsCenter 11 Lackluster performance 4 Gannett purchase and news overhaul 4 1 Two call sign changes in a year 4 2 Ratings rise 5 Post 2000 6 Notable on air staff 6 1 Current 6 2 Former 7 Technical information 7 1 Subchannels 7 2 Translators 8 Notes 9 References 10 External linksEarly years editWMIN TV and WTCN TV The shared time era edit The WMIN Broadcasting Company of St Paul applied in February 1948 for a new station licensed to that city on channel 2 3 The application was frozen when the Federal Communications Commission FCC halted all grants of new TV stations in 1948 4 In February 1952 two months before the FCC lifted the freeze 5 the Minnesota Television Public Service Corporation a company headed by former ambassador Robert Butler and headquartered in St Paul filed for television channel 11 in Minneapolis 6 Weeks later Mid Continent Radio Television which owned station WTCN TV on channel 4 as well as WTCN 1280 AM announced it would take over WCCO radio merge it with channel 4 and divest WTCN radio 7 Minnesota Television Public Service then acquired WTCN radio which had to be sold to allow Mid Continent to purchase WCCO 8 The transactions were approved in August 1952 at which time channel 4 changed from WTCN TV to WCCO TV 9 After the freeze was lifted WMIN refiled its pre freeze application in July to specify channel 11 10 as channel 2 had been set aside for educational broadcasting by the FCC 11 Later that month Meredith Publishing filed for channel 11 in Minneapolis alongside stations in Rochester New York and St Louis 12 Meredith owned three stations and had three pending station applications when the FCC ruled that companies could only have as many applications as additional stations it could own the limit being five in February 1953 13 With six stations and applications for stations the company was one over the limit it then dropped out of the channel 11 fight WMIN and WTCN each seeking to avoid a lengthy comparative hearing proposed to share time on channel 11 which the FCC accepted in April 1953 14 nbsp nbsp The Hamm Building above housed the studios of WMIN TV between 1953 and 1955 while WTCN TV originated from the Calhoun Beach Hotel between 1953 and 1974 On September 1 1953 channel 11 began broadcasting At 2 p m viewers saw the first programs from WMIN TV a news show the women s program Talk About the Town and a movie Two hours later WTCN TV greeted viewers with a dedication cooking show Man Around the House and a teen music bandstand program Corner Drug 15 Channel 11 s signal originated from the Foshay Tower in downtown Minneapolis 16 the tower had a master antenna setup inspired by the Empire State Building in New York including the antenna for WCCO TV and provision for antennas for channels 9 and 11 before any applicant had a construction permit for them 17 nbsp The Foshay Tower was designed to transmit channel 11 even before a construction permit had been awarded and did so between 1953 and 1971 The transmitter and antenna was the only physical facility shared by the stations While WMIN TV and WTCN TV were affiliates of ABC in keeping with WTCN radio 18 their programs and even network shows during each station s airtime originated from separate facilities WMIN TV set up in the former WMIN radio studios in the Hamm Building in St Paul the radio station having relocated to its transmitter site 19 it had no film developing equipment so films had to be airmailed to and from sister station KELO TV in Sioux Falls South Dakota before air 20 WTCN TV established itself in the Calhoun Beach Hotel in Minneapolis The hotel offered the station the use of its ballroom its former gymnasium left unfinished when the former beach club converted to a hotel became the largest TV studio to that time in the Twin Cities 19 Each station offered its own local programs WMIN TV had the children s show Captain 11 featuring host Jim Lange 21 in a space themed outfit 22 a It also featured Wrangler Steve a host of Westerns played by WMIN radio disc jockey Steve Cannon 21 For kids WTCN TV had the clown J P Patches originally played by Daryl Laub and then by Chris Wedes 27 Wedes left for the new KIRO TV in Seattle in 1958 28 Patches aired on the Seattle station until ending his run there 1981 29 For 19 years on WTCN TV Roger Awsumb played Casey Jones on the station s Lunch with Casey 21 By 1954 channel 11 was offering some programming from the DuMont Television Network 30 though the network s shows moved to new station KEYD TV channel 9 when it launched in January 1955 31 Consolidated consolidation and purchase by Time Inc edit Consolidated Television and Radio Broadcasters of Indianapolis a company owned by the Bitner family agreed to acquire WTCN radio and television and WMIN TV in January 1955 for about 3 million Bitner believed that channel 11 made for an attractive purchase because it was hampered by its shared status 32 It announced that it would keep the WTCN TV call letters 33 When Consolidated completed the purchase in April WMIN TV left the air and merged into the full time WTCN TV At that time Consolidated consolidated the station s activities at the WTCN TV studios in Minneapolis and closed the WMIN TV facilities in St Paul with only a handful of WMIN TV technical employees not continuing with channel 11 34 During this time the station affiliated with the NTA Film Network which began in 1956 35 The Bitner group had owned the WTCN stations for less than two years when it announced the sale of three of its broadcasting properties the WTCN stations WFBM radio and television in Indianapolis and WLAV radio and television in Grand Rapids Michigan to Time Inc in December 1956 The 15 75 million deal came after the Crowell Collier Publishing Company backed out of a transaction for the stations plus WFDF in Flint Michigan 36 FCC approval followed in April 1957 37 Time improved station revenues by expanding its movie library and sharpening its promotion of feature films 38 It offered a large schedule of local sports including Minneapolis Millers minor league baseball which WTCN radio broadcast all season long the station cut back its sports broadcasts on radio and TV due to difficulty selling advertising time and intense competition particularly for the radio broadcasts of Minnesota Golden Gophers football 39 As an independent station edit nbsp Roger Awsumb played Casey Jones on WTCN TV s Lunch with Casey children s show for nearly two decades Loss of ABC affiliation edit By the start of the 1960s Time s relationship with ABC had become strained Variety reported in March 1960 that station management was insisting on a protection clause a guarantee that ABC would not go to KMSP TV channel 9 an independent station then owned by 20th Century Fox 40 KMSP TV was already carrying some ABC shows that were not seen on channel 11 s schedule 41 These rumblings proved true In January 1961 ABC announced it would move its programs to KMSP TV effective April 16 42 The newly independent channel 11 became the market s first station to telecast major league baseball with the newly relocated Minnesota Twins while WCCO TV had agreed to broadcast the games CBS refused to allow the station to preempt prime time network programs for baseball forcing channel 4 to back out The station agreed to telecast 50 night and weekend games simulcast with WCCO radio with Bob Wolff and Ray Scott as announcers 43 The Twins movies and feature programs became the station s top program draws 44 as well as newscasts timed to air just before the network affiliates including hourly newsbreaks and a 9 p m newscast 45 To support its new local programming the station expanded its footprint in the Calhoun Beach Hotel to include space on the lower level and acquired new equipment 46 Despite this Time noted in its annual report that losing ABC was forcing a re adjustment to the economies of independent television station operations at channel 11 47 The Twins proved key to channel 11 s survival without a network affiliation Telecasts reached audience shares averaging 58 percent and as high as 79 percent in 1962 A major advertising contract with Hamm s beer for the baseball games helped the station acquire programming and get on steadier footing its first profitable footing in its ten year history An American Research Bureau report found that the station had the largest relative audience share of any independent in the country even in months without baseball Twins games catapulted channel 11 onto cable systems far from the Twin Cities including Mankato and Rochester Minnesota and Eau Claire and La Crosse Wisconsin Building on the success of the Twins telecasts the station sought to build its image as a sports outlet by adding studio wrestling and college sports to its lineup 48 Chris Craft ownership edit In the three years Time owned WTCN TV as an independent it negotiated with several groups to sell the television station and WTCN radio In July 1961 Variety reported that Chicago based WGN Inc was considering buying WTCN TV from Time 49 other buyers looked at and passed on the station at this time 48 A Twin Cities based consortium agreed to pay 2 million for the WTCN stations in 1963 but failed to come up with the money 50 Chris Craft Industries agreed to purchase WTCN TV alone for 4 million in a deal announced in May 1964 it was the company s third TV property after two other independents KCOP in Los Angeles and KPTV in Portland Oregon 51 52 WTCN radio was sold separately to the Buckley Jaeger Company 53 and became WWTC on October of that year 54 Chris Craft fortified the station s children s and movie offerings to complement its strong sports coverage The children s relaunch included a kids club and 6 1 2 hours a day of weekday shows promoted as Kidville 11 55 The company stated in its 1965 annual report that WTCN TV s performance exceeded expectations 56 By 1966 the Twins games were being fed by WTCN TV to a network of 15 television stations 57 which grew to 16 with the inclusion of WVTV in Milwaukee the next year 58 the Twins were joined on channel 11 in 1967 by the new Minnesota North Stars hockey team 59 In June 1971 WTCN TV joined other local stations in moving its tower to the Telefarm site in Shoreview Minnesota The relocation to the newer taller masts was necessitated because of the construction of the IDS Center a Minneapolis skyscraper that shaded many viewers from the Foshay Tower site 60 61 The new tower which was shared by the former Foshay stations WCCO TV KSTP TV and WTCN TV collapsed on September 7 during further construction work 62 killing seven workers 63 In lieu of the collapsed candelabra Telefarm proposed constructing one tower for WTCN TV and an FM station and another for WCCO and KSTP 64 The replacements were erected in late 1972 65 Metromedia ownership edit We are in negotiations for a very large station and frankly we need the cash We re sorry to sell it We did a lot for them and it did a lot for us It was a loser when we bought it A Chris Craft official on selling WTCN TV 66 Chris Craft announced the sale of WTCN TV to Metromedia for 18 million on July 29 1971 Chris Craft sold the station as part of its pursuit of a large market VHF television station elsewhere 67 66 After taking over Metromedia made major changes in the station s programming Citing declining ratings and a company policy against live children s hosts Lunch with Casey finished its run at the end of 1972 Channel 11 dropped the Twins also due to falling viewership with the team moving telecasts to WCCO TV 68 the team returned to channel 11 in 1975 69 Under Metromedia WTCN TV became one of the nation s most financially lucrative independent stations 70 even though it was less profitable than the network affiliates 71 Metromedia s purchase of WTCN TV included a parcel of land at the corner of Boone Avenue and Minnesota State Highway 55 in Golden Valley intended for the construction of new studios 66 Metromedia broke ground on a 5 million 65 000 square foot 6 000 m2 studio complex on the site in May 1973 it featured two broadcast studios an outdoor sculpture garden and space for Metromedia s corporate art collection 72 While the network affiliates intensified their competition for the news audience WTCN s small news effort a 9 30 p m newscast known as Total News barely registered as a news source in the community though it was just behind the anemic KMSP TV in total viewers 73 Until moving to Golden Valley all the station s news film was developed by a company in downtown Minneapolis that closed at dinnertime preventing the broadcast of late breaking news items 74 Gil Amundson doubled as the news director and anchor for the program WTCN had the only TV news staff in the market without a professional meteorologist 73 Affiliating with NBC editKMSP TV the ABC affiliate in the Twin Cities was a distant third place in the news ratings race Channel 9 was traditionally the most profitable station in the market but under Donald Swartz it was a lean operation with a reputation for penny pinching 71 As early as 1974 KMSP was rumored to have made changes to its news operation to appease the network which threatened to affiliate with WTCN 74 and further rumors of network dissatisfaction with KMSP s news effort surfaced in 1977 70 Channel 9 s news budget was reportedly less than half that of WCCO TV or KSTP TV In the late 1970s as ABC soared to number one in the national ratings it began a campaign to upgrade its affiliate base and put out feelers to WCCO TV KSTP TV and WTCN TV 75 KSTP TV the NBC affiliate and the market s news ratings leader wished to expand its signal beyond the Twin Cities to take advantage of recently relaxed rules relating to the feeding of broadcast translators by microwave transmission 75 and there were fewer ABC affiliates in surrounding areas notably Alexandria and Eau Claire than NBC affiliates On August 29 1978 KSTP announced it would switch from NBC to ABC in March 1979 ending a 50 year relationship between KSTP and NBC stretching back to the days of radio 70 The size of the market and tenure of KSTP with NBC made the switch particularly stunning 75 KSTP s defection was seen as a coup the largest engineered by the network 76 77 Even before KSTP s affiliation switch was publicly announced NBC reached out to Metromedia as it began to evaluate KMSP TV and WTCN TV for potential affiliation with the network 70 As part of the process it reached out to former employees of KMSP TV at least one of whom told NBC that its management didn t care about news and that it was a stepchild of their operation 78 At the end of September NBC announced its decision it would affiliate with WTCN TV 79 The network picked channel 11 over channel 9 on the strength of its facilities and performance 80 In reaching a deal Metromedia promised NBC that it would launch a first class news operation for the station which was weak in the area of news though better than many independents 81 and had a news staff totaling 10 people at the time 80 Most of the 4 million Metromedia spent ahead of the affiliation switch was invested in the news department on new reporters largely coming from TV stations in the South a new news set weather radar and electronic news gathering replacing film 82 The only member of the news department who did not continue after the switch was weather anchor Toni Hughes who had presented channel 11 s weathercasts for a decade she was dismissed because she was not a meteorologist and though she was technically a freelancer her duties for WTCN prevented her from immediately seeking similar employment in the market 83 WTCN TV became the NBC affiliate for the Twin Cities on March 5 1979 Ahead of the switch the station launched a 1 million promotional campaign titled We ve Got It Now featuring billboards of such NBC stars as Johnny Carson a visit by network president Fred Silverman and other NBC stars and the live broadcast of Today from Minneapolis 84 That same day NewsCenter 11 launched with weeknight news anchor Jim Dyer meteorologist Glenn Burns and sportscaster Bob Kurtz 82 NewsCenter 11 arrived on the air as a strident production that local viewers instantly recognized as foreign to their tastes From its sickening theme music to its cream puff wrap up features by Chick McCuen NewsCenter 11 has been a commercial failure John Carman The Minneapolis Star 85 NewsCenter 11 Lackluster performance edit NewsCenter 11 was a ratings and critical disaster Neal Gendler in the Minneapolis Tribune was unimpressed and found the program pedestrian and formulaic overdone and out of tune with Twin Cities viewers tastes He criticized Kurtz for laughing at skiers in bikinis and stated Someone also ought to let him in on a fact of Minnesota life Sexism is out of style 86 John Carman of The Minneapolis Star called it a near perfect case history of how not to put together a successful and respected news operation calling its format too conventional and Gil Amundson himself relieved of news director duties too weak of a leader Carman and Karl Vick also of The Minneapolis Star assigned some blame for the failure to the direction of the station by out of town consultants particularly Ted Kavanau the former news director of Metromedia s WNEW TV in New York 87 and executives unfamiliar with the market 85 Where Kavanau wanted a tabloid style newscast in the mold of WNEW and hired people for such a program general manager Robert Fransen believed a more conventional format was advisable and prevailed 87 In its first ratings survey the station placed fourth out of three newscasts and KMSP at 6 p m 88 enough to be described as about as popular as the measles by Vick in The Star 89 its performance was so poor that the station having pledged advertisers a certain level of viewership had to offer costly makegood ads 85 During NBC prime time the station had 21 percent of the audience half of which left for other stations during the 10 p m news but viewers returned to channel 11 to watch The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson The station attracted 8 to 10 percent of the evening news audience far behind KSTP and WCCO which commanded shares of 30 percent or more The station s poor performance also sank the NBC network newscasts which fell to third place 90 Meanwhile freed of its network programming and having picked up the North Stars 91 and Twins 92 rights KMSP TV became one of the nation s leading independents beating NewsCenter 11 in the ratings just as WTCN had done when KMSP was an ABC affiliate 90 87 Kevin O Brien WTCN s general manager at the time later told The Mercury News that switching to NBC tore that station asunder because we didn t have that much time to plan such a dramatic change 93 While the news product improved under new news director Brink Chipman and as reporters settled into the market 87 turmoil engulfed the troubled newsroom An investigative reporter was fired in July before her reports even appeared on air due to poor quality work 88 Dyer unhappy nearly from the start was switched with weekend anchor Stan Bohrman in August and left in December 94 At year s end Kurtz was taken off the weeknight newscasts and replaced with Tom Ryther formerly of KSTP TV returning to the Twin Cities from WKYC TV in Cleveland 90 Burns was the last of the original three news presenters to remain with WTCN in January 1982 he accepted a position with WSB TV in Atlanta 95 where he would spend 40 years 96 Ratings improved modestly when channel 11 shifted its early newscast from 6 to 5 30 p m moving it out of direct competition with WCCO and KSTP though it still trailed the national newscasts they offered at that time 97 This did not stanch turmoil in the newsroom nor did it forestall Metromedia from shuttering the profitable Metro Productions commercial production unit of WTCN in December 1980 98 In early 1982 the station temporarily lost the ability to air the Tonight Show because NBC was upset with WTCN for running it on a half hour delay 99 One bright spot for the station was a 1982 series on herpes reported by anchor John Bachman Herpes Is Forever which won an Alfred I duPont Columbia University Award 100 Gannett purchase and news overhaul editIn August 1982 Metromedia agreed to buy WFLD an independent station in Chicago It needed to sell one TV station and a Chicago radio station to stay within ownership limits but it chose to divest itself of a second TV station to raise the money necessary for the 136 million purchase the second highest for a single station 101 without incurring debt 102 First to be sold was WXIX TV an independent station in Cincinnati 103 followed by WTCN TV acquired by the Gannett Company for 75 million 104 101 Gannett in turn needed to sell one VHF television station to make room in its portfolio 105 and chose KARK TV in Little Rock Arkansas for divestiture 106 We re coming in here humbly with the understanding that we have a lot of problems and trying to figure out what we have to do in order to do a good news job Gannett is in the news business and that s what we re proud of We better have the best source of local news and information that we can offer to the public or else we re down the drain Jeffrey Davidson president of broadcasting Gannett 107 Gannett took control of WTCN in April 1983 and began implementing a top to bottom overhaul of the station s local news programming promising to raise its quality to match WCCO and KSTP A new station manager and vice president of news were brought in both from KBTV Gannett s market leading station in Denver to replace the existing management which remained with Metromedia 108 Armed with research identifying WCCO and KSTP as having older skewing viewership and seeing a void for a newscast for a younger audience 109 the station added as many as 40 new staff members 110 to add to the 40 that it had at the time of purchase compared to 100 apiece for the newsrooms at WCCO TV and KSTP TV 107 To keep pace with its competitors the station acquired a news helicopter as well as new news vehicles and cameras 110 Gannett filled the meteorologist position left unfilled on a permanent basis since Burns s departure in January 1982 by hiring Paul Douglas who had worked for the Satellite News Channel 108 The station cut a hole through the wall of its studio to create an outdoor weather set for Douglas s forecasts It replaced the existing anchor pairing of John Bachman and Cora Ann Mihalik b with Paul Magers and Diana Pierce both hired in August from California stations 113 The station increased its emphasis on news photography in addition to hiring anchors it hired new news photographers 114 The station s newscasts known as 11 News were changed to News 11 113 The revamped newscasts debuted quietly in September 1983 115 Ratings did not improve immediately 116 but they began to rise slowly as early as November 1983 117 By November 1984 the station had increased its audience share at 10 p m to 15 percent a significant increase from a year prior 118 The gap with second place KSTP narrowed as the station increased its audience share to 23 percent by February 1986 119 Two call sign changes in a year edit The FCC liberalized rules around call signs in late 1983 120 Gannett the publisher of USA Today acquired the rights to the call sign KUSA in early 1984 and won approval to use the letters on the former KBTV in Denver after years of being stymied under the old rules 121 While Gannett initially intended to do the same immediately after acquiring WTCN TV it instead focused on rebuilding the news operation and beating back a challenge to the KUSA assignment from the USA Network cable service After Gannett won that fight it sought and received permission to change WTCN TV s call sign to WUSA effective July 4 1985 The new designation replaced WTCN TV a call sign associated with the station s independent days at a time when the station was finally becoming a local news competitor 122 The WUSA call letters lasted less than one year in Minneapolis Gannett acquired the Evening News Association in February 1986 among its holdings was WDVM the CBS affiliate in Washington D C near Gannett s corporate headquarters 123 From the moment Gannett took that station over it mulled moving the WUSA call letters to Washington 124 In March John Carmody of The Washington Post reported that Gannett had instructed the Minneapolis station to come up with a new call sign 125 The station reached a deal with a radio station in Atchison Kansas to use the call sign KARE and switched to it on June 11 126 The new designation was in keeping with the station s heavy community service component since its acquisition by Gannett including an awards event titled 11 Who Care 127 This freed the Washington station to switch to WUSA 128 Ratings rise edit We questioned their news judgment Was it news or news entertainment This place said we d get our news from lots of different places not just the Capitol City Hall the courts and the classic news beats but from within the community They got out and talked to people they found things that were interesting not necessarily newsworthy They looked for story ideas by listening to what people were talking about Tom Lindner WCCO TV news manager and producer in the 1980s later KARE news director 114 Channel 11 s rising news fortunes continued after the call sign change to KARE coinciding with a turnaround in ratings for the NBC network 129 Weeks after becoming KARE came another pivotal moment On July 18 1986 helicopter pilot Max Messmer was in the air headed to an assignment when he heard that a tornado was on the ground in Fridley He piloted Sky 11 to the scene and ad libbed commentary as the aircraft flew within a quarter mile of the tornado 130 The tornado coverage aired live on KARE s 5 p m newscast providing startling pictures of the storm It was the first time a tornado had been filmed from creation to dissipation The newscast was a ratings milestone for the station in 2011 Douglas recalled that it led many WCCO and KSTP viewers to sample KARE s news and the raw footage was widely requested by scientists and meteorologists 131 In 1986 the station took the lead among the coveted demographic of adults 25 54 a demographic with which it would place first in all but one ratings survey between that year and 2000 132 In October 1986 the station notched its first ever second place finish in local news ratings sending KSTP TV s 10 p m news to third Despite this achievement the station lagged badly in early evening news contending that its younger viewers were still at work and not able to watch 5 or 6 p m newscasts 133 The July 1987 sweeps period brought another historic achievement for KARE it finished first at 10 p m with an audience share of 29 percent 134 This momentum was sustained through late 1987 and early 1988 even as an expansion to the Twin Cities market gave WCCO an edge in counting viewers in Alexandria 135 136 KARE attracted criticism for the different style of its newscasts stylish and designed to draw an emotional response The latter was evident in its photojournalism style which the Star Tribune later described as highly visual and emotional KARE became a regular winner of National Press Photographers Association awards 114 This prompted WCCO TV a station known for its hard news format to become more image conscious 129 and the other TV news outlets in the Twin Cities began incorporating longer photojournalism driven stories into their newscasts 114 KARE became the first Twin Cities station to offer closed captioning of its local news in 1988 137 When the Minnesota Poll in 1988 found KARE s viewership concentrated among young adults Noel Holston of the Star Tribune predicted that the station could be dominant for years to come based on the age of its news watchers 109 In September 1988 Pat Miles left her job at WCCO TV and signed a five year agreement to work at KARE including a year where she could not appear on camera under a non compete clause The pact brought Miles who wanted more personal time together with channel 11 seeking an anchor to improve the lagging ratings of its early evening newscasts 138 Meanwhile WCCO found renewed ratings strength and pushed KARE back to second 139 140 Under the leadership of general manager Linda Rios Brook from 1989 to 1991 the station tried several unsuccessful initiatives most notably a morning talk show titled Between Friends that failed to make an impact in the ratings but its newscasts regained the local news lead for the first time in several years Rios Brook resigned after mixed programming results and a controversy over her evangelical Christianity 141 and resurfaced in the market as the president and general manager of family oriented KLGT 142 At KARE she was replaced by Hank Price who had managed WFMY TV in Greensboro North Carolina 141 In the early 1990s two of the original team of anchors that made KARE a competitor in the 1980s left The more acrimonious departure was that of sportscaster Tom Ryther who was forced out in 1991 after filing an age discrimination lawsuit against the station Ryther s complaint alleged that his job duties had been progressively reduced in order to bring younger faces such as his replacement Jeff Passolt on screen instead 143 KARE defended its actions by pointing to research from 1990 that it conducted on local TV personalities 144 Ryther s lawsuit against the station was successful a jury issued a 715 000 judgment in his favor in 1993 145 KARE appealed but a federal appeals court upheld the original verdict in 1996 144 and the Supreme Court rejected KARE s final appeal in 1997 146 In 1994 Douglas departed KARE in search of a job closer to family in the eastern U S 147 Douglas was replaced by weekend meteorologist Ken Barlow on the weeknight newscasts 148 The 1990s were a decade of strength for KARE news The station continued its domination of households 25 54 while narrowly trailing or narrowly leading WCCO TV in total ratings in late news though channel 4 had more total viewers for its early evening newscasts 149 150 During the decade KARE added Saturday morning newscasts in 1992 151 KARE aired the locally produced game show Let s Bowl for several years in the late 1990s it ran after Saturday Night Live The audience support for the program was sufficient to help its creators Tim Scott and Rick Kronfeld secure a pickup for their show from the Comedy Central cable channel 152 Post 2000 editKARE launched a high definition digital signal on channel 35 on August 31 2001 153 KARE and WCCO on the Telefarm tower had intended to launch digital service as early as November 1999 154 but bad weather and high demand for tower crews stalled the project 155 nbsp KARE at the Minnesota State Fair 2006 Magers the anchor commonly credited with helping KARE remain number one in late evening news departed the station in late 2003 to work for KCBS TV in Los Angeles ending the Magers Pierce tandem that had become the longest running anchor duo in the Twin Cities 156 Without Magers and what competitor Don Shelby called his magical formula 157 on channel 11 interest heightened in the local stations ratings performance 158 The competition was spousal Frank Vascellaro the man hired to replace Magers on the anchor desk was the husband of WCCO evening news anchor Amelia Santaniello 159 Vascellaro s departure in 2005 coincided with that of Barlow who was hired away by WBZ TV in Boston 160 In the wake of these departures and the replacement of Vascellaro with Mike Pomeranz on the anchor desk 160 WCCO slowly crept closer to KARE and then took the lead from channel 11 in 2006 with a swing of three percent of the audience share to WCCO 161 When Pomeranz left to take a position with the San Diego Padres in 2006 sports anchor Randy Shaver moved to the news desk 162 The station experimented with several formats for its mid morning program In 2006 it replaced KARE 11 Today with a new program Showcase Minnesota that also featured advertiser paid sponsored segments 163 It was replaced in 2011 with a revival of KARE 11 Today Pierce left her evening anchor duties to host the revamped show and KARE s 4 p m newscast 164 The loss of ratings momentum continued in the early 2010s as KARE slumped while WCCO locked up most of the number one positions by demographic and time slot 165 A special month of newscasts by WCCO led that station to its first 25 54 win in late news since 1986 166 While KARE has been competitive since particularly in the 25 54 demographic WCCO has generally been the market leader in total viewers 167 168 Pierce retired in 2016 after taking a buyout package offered by Tegna 169 which became the new name for the former Gannett broadcast division when its TV stations and newspapers split into separate companies in 2015 170 The KARE newsroom won multiple national journalism awards in the late 2010s and early 2020s Three different investigative series together won the Alfred I duPont Columbia University Award in 2017 171 followed by two awards in 2020 for On the Veteran Beat and Love Them First 172 An investigation on prisons Cruel and Unusual won the duPont Columbia in 2022 173 The next year the station won another duPont Columbia for a series on violent criminals titled The Gap Failure to Treat Failure to Protect 174 This series also won a Peabody Award the second for the station after a joint award to KARE and KUSA in Denver in 2022 175 KARE which relocated its digital signal from its pre transition UHF channel 35 to VHF channel 11 upon the digital transition in 2009 176 was approved in 2020 to relocate to UHF channel 31 to aid reception after the spectrum incentive auction 2 The station switched to the new UHF signal on October 20 2021 177 Notable on air staff editCurrent edit Boyd Huppert reporter since 1996 178 national storytelling coach for Tegna and winner of the 2023 John F Hogan Distinguished Service Award from the Radio Television Digital News Association 179 Former edit Andre Bernier weekday morning meteorologist 1980s 180 Asha Blake reporter and anchor early 1990s 181 Dennis Bounds weekend news anchor 1980 1982 100 Bernie Grace crime news reporter 1979 2006 182 Jack Horner sportscaster 183 Technical information edit nbsp KARE s tower site at the Telefarm Towers in Shoreview Minnesota Subchannels edit The station s signal is multiplexed Subchannels of KARE 184 Channel Res Aspect Short name Programming 11 1 1080i 16 9 KARE HD NBC 11 2 480i CourtTV Court TV 11 3 Crime True Crime Network 11 4 Quest Quest 11 5 Nest The Nest 11 7 Crime True Crime Network 11 8 HSN HSN 23 5 480i 16 9 Rewind Rewind TV WUCW Broadcast on behalf of another station Translators edit nbsp Transmitter locations for KARE s translator network Click on each marker to reveal details Originating station Low power translators In addition to the main transmitter in Shoreview KARE s signal is relayed to outlying parts of Minnesota through a network of translators owned by various translator associations 185 Alexandria K14LZ D Frost K31EF D 11 1 as 11 4 Jackson K19HZ D 11 1 as 11 4 Olivia K20JY D Redwood Falls K22KU D St James K32GX D 11 1 as 11 4 Walker K24KT D 11 1 as 24 1 Willmar K17FA D KARE formerly had a translator serving Breezy Point and Brainerd KLKS LP channel 14 which was owned by the Lakes Broadcasting Group owner of KLKS radio The repeater signed on in 1995 and operated until July 16 2011 when its use as a repeater of KARE was discontinued due to a corporate decision made by Gannett management 186 Notes edit KELO TV cloned Captain 11 for itself In 1955 it sent Dave Dedrick to WMIN TV to learn the role 23 In Sioux Falls the program ran for 41 years until Dedrick s retirement in December 1996 24 25 26 Mihalik s tenure at WTCN was extremely short lived She arrived at the station in January as a weekend anchor was promoted to weeknight news in June 111 was demoted back to weekends with the hiring of Magers and Pierce then left at the end of November for WLS TV in Chicago 112 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