Mark Rosen: Falling Apart — Or Pulling It Together?

I really like Mark Rosen. The WCCO sports director and frequent KFAN contributor is smart and seems like a genuinely good guy. With more than 40 years in local broadcasting, he also represents institutional memory that’s often sorely lacking in an era of media cutbacks.

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Tiger, Don, Joe and Jorg

It’s not a ’60s folk group. But it’s worth noting that our agency founder and president, Jorg Pierach, had the honor Monday of being the first guest in the post-Don Shelby era at WCCO Radio. Friend of the Pony Joe Anderson is in a six-day tryout to take over Shelby’s slot on the Great Neighbor, [...]

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Bloginar, beer and bobbles

WCCO (the Minneapolis/St. Paul CBS affiliate) hosts a semi-regular event known as the WCCO bloginar. The first occurred in July and the second was last Thursday at Sweeney’s in St. Paul; I snuck my way into this most recent meetup. Inviting local bloggers to a social hour and a discussion is a smart move by the station that has launched [...]

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