Minnesota AP Broadcast Log
May 2005

Upcoming Events

June 21: Annual Minnesota AP Sports Association meeting. Star Tribune, Minneapolis

Oct. 22: Minnesota AP Association annual Jobs Fair. Radisson Metrodome Hotel, University of Minnesota Minneapolis campus.

 

Minnesota Right Now

On Monday, May 16, the Minnesota broadcast wire will adopt the "Right Now" format used for some time now by AP's national broadcast wire.

This means that instead of scripts slugged "News Agenda" and "Sports Watch," you'll receive scripts slugged "MN-Right Now" and "MN-Sports Right Now."

There will be no decrease in the amount of copy you receive, and the various Right Now scripts will move at the same time that your current scripts move. Here is the updated Minnesota broadcast wire schedule:

 

Monday-Friday

1:30 a.m. _ Minnesota Right Now _ the latest Minnesota news, sports, business and entertainment. 1st Minnesota NewsMinute.

Minnesota Sports Right Now. 1st Minnesota SportsMinute. Minnesota Scorecard. Minnesota Sports Schedule. Minnesota Legislative

NewsMinute (when in session).

6:15 a.m. _ Minnesota Right Now.

6:45 a.m. _ 2nd Minnesota NewsMinute.

8:45 a.m. _ 3rd Minnesota NewsMinute.

11 a.m. _ Minnesota Right Now.

11:30 a.m. _ 4th Minnesota NewsMinute.

1:30 p.m. _ Minnesota Sports Right Now.

2:30 p.m. _ 5th Minnesota NewsMinute.

4 p.m. _ 2nd Minnesota SportsMinute.

4:30 p.m. _ 6th Minnesota NewsMinute.

6:30 p.m. _ Lottery Glance with Daily 3, Northstar Cash lottery numbers.

 

Weekends and Holidays

2 a.m. _ Minnesota Right Now. 1st Minnesota NewsMinute.

Minnesota Sports Right Now. 1st Minnesota SportsMinute. Minnesota Scorecard. Minnesota Sports Schedule.

9:25 a.m. _ 2nd Minnesota NewsMinute.

11:30 a.m. _ Minnesota Right Now.

3 p.m. _ Minnesota Right Now.

6:30 p.m. _ 3rd Minnesota NewsMinute.

6:30 p.m. _ Lottery Glance with Daily 3, Northstar Cash lottery numbers.

 

Right Now will provide you with the latest, most pertinent news, business, sports and when appropriate, entertainment, in your state. Each story in Right Now will carry its own individual slug and headline _ making it easy for you to see the subject of each story.

 

We welcome your feedback on our new look and approach. Please call or message News Editor Doug Glass or Broadcast Editor Jeff Baenen at 1-800-552-7250 or (612) 332-2727, or dglass@ap.org or jbaenen@ap.org, or Barbara Worth at the BNC at (202) 736-1173 or bworth@ap.org.

 

 

MAPB Board Minutes

Minutes of the April 1 MAPB Board of Directors meeting are available at www.ap.org/minnesota/bcminutes.html.

 

 

MAPB Officers

 

News director Matt Crosby of KQAD/KLQL Radio in Luverne was re-elected president of the Minnesota Associated Press Broadcasters at the group's annual board meeting in Bloomington.

 

Crosby was elected to a second one-year term.

News director J.P. Cola of KWLM/KQIC Radio in Willmar was re-elected vice president.

 

Crosby appointed news director Bill Wareham of Minnesota Public Radio as noncommercial representative on the board. Wareham had served as metro representative.

 

Managing editor Steve Murphy of WCCO-AM in Minneapolis was named metro representative, succeeding Wareham. News director Leigh Geramanis-Hart of KAAL-TV in Austin was appointed southeastern Minnesota representative.

 

News director Steve Goodspeed of WDIO-TV was reappointed northeastern representative; news and co-sports director Aaron Ziemer of KMHL Radio in Marshall, southwestern representative; and news director Mark Wodarczyk of KDUZ/KARP Radio in Hutchinson, central representative MAPB Award Winners (A complete list of winners is available at http://www.ap.org/minnesota/bcwin.html)

 

KSTP-TV of St. Paul and KARE-TV of Golden Valley are top winners in this year's Minnesota Associated Press Broadcasters awards contest.

 

KSTP won the series/special category and best-in-show for "Cold Case-Cold Shoulder," an examination of the investigation into the shooting of a Minneapolis police officer. KSTP also won first place in spot news for coverage of a fatal building explosion in Ramsey last December.

 

KARE won first place among large-newsroom TV stations for feature, sports reporting and writing, and its Web site, www.kare11.com, was named best Web site.

 

WCCO-TV of Minneapolis won first in documentary/investigative for its look at security concerns at the Mall of America. KMSP-TV of Eden Prairie won the newscast category for its 9 p.m. news.

 

Among television stations with 50 or fewer full-time newsroom employees, KVLY-TV of Fargo, N.D., took first in spot news, sports reporting and newscast.

WDAY-TV of Fargo won first in documentary/investigative and best-in-show for a report on the time trains spend at crossings, tying up traffic.

 

Other first-place awards went to Duluth TV stations KBJR and WDIO. KELO-TV of Sioux Falls, S.D., won the best Web site award for www.keloland.com.

 

WCCO-AM of Minneapolis won first place in spot news among radio stations with four or more full-time newsroom employees, for its coverage of the Ramsey building explosion. WCCO also won first place in feature, series/special, sports play-by-play and writing.

 

Minnesota Public Radio won first place in documentary/investigative for an examination of the economic recovery. MPR also won first place in sports reporting and best-in-show for a profile of wrestler Brock Lesnar, and www.mpr.org was named Best Web Site.

 

KFGO Radio of Fargo won first-place awards in spot news, feature and sports reporting among radio stations with two or three full-time newsroom employees.

WJON Radio of St. Cloud won first place in series/special and sports play-by-play and its Web site _ www.wjon.com _ won best Web site.

 

Other radio stations winning awards include KTOE of Mankato, KFAI of Minneapolis, KVSC of St. Cloud, KARL of Marshall, KWLM of Willmar, KDUZ of Hutchinson, and WDAY of Fargo.

 

 

Lone Ranger

For the second year in a row, news director Pete Steiner of KTOE/KDOG Radio in Mankato won the Lone Ranger Award recognizing broadcast journalists who work in one-person newsrooms. Steiner was cited for his coverage of President Bush's campaign visit to Mankato last August.

 

 

Cooperation Awards

The Minnesota AP has cited three broadcast members for outstanding cooperation in sharing stories with other AP members in 2004. KSTP-TV was cited for single-story cooperation on the hunter shootings in northwestern Wisconsin. KAUS Radio of Austin won the overall cooperation award and WCCO-AM won for weekend cooperation.

 

 

Member Cooperation

Minnesota Public Radio was nominated for an APME Instant Citation for photos.

MPR reporter Dan Gunderson was the only newsperson with a camera when tribal police officers appeared on the roof of Red Lake High School on April 7. They were searching for a gun reportedly hidden at the school where eight people died in a student shooting attack March 21. Gunderson quickly shared four pictures with AP members across the nation.

 

KMHL Radio of Marshall received an APME Instant Citation for news. KMHL news director Aaron Ziemer gave the AP first word on Feb. 22 that three Minnesota National Guard members based in Montevideo had been killed in one day in Iraq.

 

WCCO-TV of Minneapolis provided reporter David Schechter's script on April 29 when a Minnetonka woman won a Russian court order for custody of her 5-year-old daughter.

 

 

Radio K Expands FM Signal

 

The University of Minnesota's Radio K has expanded its FM signal to cover all parts of Minneapolis. The station on 106.5 FM can now be heard each weekday from 4:30 p.m. to 8 a.m. and all weekend. Radio K, the university's student-run station, is still broadcasting on 770 AM from 6 a.m. until 8:30 p.m. daily.

 

 

Member Mentions

Minnesota Public Radio has named Tom Crann as new regional host of ``All Things Considered'' on all MPR news and information stations, including KNOW-FM in St. Paul. Crann has been a national host/producer at MPR since 1995.

 

John Snee, MPR's senior district manager and Duluth network station manager, retired on April 15. Snee spent 44 years in broadcasting in the Duluth area, including 14 years with MPR. Before joining MPR, Snee worked for KDAL-AM and television in Duluth for 30 years, eventually becoming the station's vice president and general manager in 1978.

 

Longtime broadcaster Rod Trongard will sign off for the last time on Mankato radio station KTOE on May 27. Trongard's career includes stints at WLOL and KSTP in the Twin Cities. He did play-by-play of Gopher football and basketball games for 13 years, and also was seen on television as a ringside announcer for All Star Wrestling.

In 1982, he joined KEEZ in Mankato and moved to the Linder Radio Group and KTOE in 1993. Trongard was inducted into the Minnesota Broadcasters Hall of Fame in 2003.

 

 

Obit

Former Northwestern Radio program host Louise Davies, 88, died Feb. 8 at Bethany Covenant Village in Minneapolis. Davies, a 1936 graduate of Northwestern, and her husband, James, were part of Northwestern College and Radio for many years and hosted a weekly program, ``Melody and Musings.''