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, 2006]] KARE, channel 11, is an NBC -affiliated television station licensed to Minneapolis, Minnesota , and serving the Minneapolis- St. Paul area (commonly known as the Twin Cities ) of Minnesota and portions of western Wisconsin . KARE is owned by the Gannett Company , with studios located in Golden Valley, Minnesota . The station is noted for having a number of Emmy -winning Photojournalists and has had a highly- Rated newscast for over two decades. The station broadcasts on VHF channel 11 and Digitally on UHF channel 35 (through virtual channel numbering, it appears as channel 11-1). It operates KARE 11 WeatherPlus on its DT2 feed. HISTORY KARE was first known as WTCN-TV (the “TCN” stood for “Twin Cities Newspapers”), though it was not the first TV station in the Twin Cities to carry that name. Channel 4 originally carried the WTCN name, but it was changed to WCCO-TV following the station's merger with the WCCO radio stations in 1952. At that time, WTCN-AM (1280 AM, now WWTC ) was sold to the Minnesota Television Service Corporation headed by St. Paul businessman Robert Butler, a former ambassador to Cuba and Australia . Soon afterward, Butler's group applied for the channel 11 license. At the same time, WMIN (1400 AM, now KMNV ) had also applied for channel 11. Since the FCC had a backlog of contested licenses, the two stations worked out an agreement for a joint application. The FCC approved this deal, and WTCN-TV/WMIN-TV went on the air on September 1, 1953 as an ABC affiliate. The station also carried a secondary affiliation with DuMont . Under the agreement, each station would use a transmitter mounted atop the Foshay Tower in downtown Minneapolis for two hours, then allow the other channel to take over for the next two. WTCN-TV broadcast from the Calhoun Beach Hotel in Minneapolis, while WMIN broadcast from the Hamm Building in St. Paul. On April 3 1955, with FCC approval, WMIN sold its share of channel 11, and WTCN-TV took over the frequency full-time. On the same day, the WTCN stations were sold to the Bitner Group. Just two years later, the Bitner group merged with Time-Life . In 1961, KMSP-TV took the ABC affiliation, and WTCN became an independent, with its 10 pm newscast moving to 9 pm. As a traditional general entertainment Independent Station , WTCN offered cartoons, sitcoms, old movies, Minnesota Twins baseball, locally produced shows, news, and dramas. It was also been home to the Twin Cities first primetime newscast. Chris-Craft Industries bought the WTCN stations in 1964, but sold off WTCN-AM. Under Chris-Craft, WTCN modernized its newscasts. Up to that time, they were still shot on film. Metromedia bought WTCN-TV in 1971. A year later, the station built a new tower in the Telefarm installation in Shoreview, Minnesota in 1972. Additionally, the new transmitter greatly increased the station's reception area, boosting its secondary coverage to 72 miles. In 1973, after 20 years at the Calhoun Beach Hotel, WTCN moved to its current studio in Golden Valley. In the late 70s, ABC began looking for stronger affiliates across the country--including Minneapolis-St.Paul. The network had talks with WTCN, WCCO-TV ( CBS ), and KSTP-TV ( NBC ). KSTP surprised the industry in August 1978 by announcing its split with NBC , ending a five-decade relationship in radio and TV. Channel 5 would become an ABC affiliate on March 5, 1979 -- the network's biggest coup at that time. The Peacock Network then chose to affiliate with WTCN. Metromedia sold about half of its cartoons and syndicated programming to former ABC affiliate KMSP-TV , which became the Twin Cities' largest independent station. In 1983, Metromedia sold WTCN to Gannett . In order to update and strengthen the station's image, Gannett changed the call letters to WUSA in 1985. But, after the corporation purchased WDVM-TV in Washington, D.C. , it felt that the WUSA identification was a better fit for the nation's capitol. Gannett needed to start over, and chose '''KARE''' as the new call letters for the station. . Magers and Douglas had great on-air chemistry. Along with Pierce, they helped lift KARE to the top spot in the Twin Cities news ratings in 1986, displacing WCCO-TV , Channel 4. KSTP-TV , Channel 5, which had itself been dethroned by WCCO-TV earlier in the 80s, was pushed back to third place--a spot in which it remains today. In 1987, KARE turned up the heat on its rivals one more notch, with the surprise hiring of Pat Miles , main co-anchor from WCCO-TV . Since the departure of Paul Magers in December 2003, KARE lost some of its lustre, but continues to win the key demographic ratings desired by advertisers. KARE has won the NPPA's award for station of the year in 1985, 1995, 2001 and 2006. On April 27, 2006, KARE became the first station in the Twin Cities (and among the first in the US) to broadcast news in High Definition Television . As part of this transition, the station completely replaced its news set, originally built in 1986 and updated in the 1990s, with a new state-of-the-art backdrop. At the current time, the station is still broadcasting in analog (with the news shot in a way that is still usable on the smaller 4:3 format of analog sets). {Link without Title} Past logos |
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