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KDUZ
KDUZ (1260 AM) is a radio station licensed to serve Hutchinson, Minnesota, United States. The station, which began broadcasting in 1953, is currently owned by Iowa City Broadcasting Company, Inc.
KDUZ broadcasts a news/talk radio format to a ten-county area of southern Minnesota, including western Minneapolis. Local programming includes traffic reports, funeral announcements, local news updates, sports, weather, and a tradio program called "KDUZ Swap Shop". Network newscasts are taken from ABC News, the Minnesota News Network, and the Associated Press.
Weekend programming includes four different Lutheran church services on Sunday morning. Sunday afternoon programming includes Polka Parade with Lester Schuft, Polka-bration hosted by Chuck Thiel, and "It's Polka Time" with Craig Ebel. Syndicated financial shows on Saturday include The Bruce Williams Show and Bob Brinker's Moneytalk.
This station began its licensed broadcast operations on September 16, 1953, serving Hutchinson, Minnesota, with 1,000 watts of power, daytime-only on a frequency of 1260 kHz. The new station was assigned the call sign KDUZ by the Federal Communications Commission.
KDUZ was initially owned by a partnership of brothers Albert Tedesco, Victor Tedesco, and Nicholas Tedesco operating as the McLeod County Broadcasting Company. Ted Hanson served as the station's first program director with Howard Nordine as news director and Albert Tedesco as general manager. In 1955, Heinz Fruck took over the general manager role, a job he held into the 1980s.
In 1957, KDUZ was moved under the ownership of the North American Broadcasting Company, part of the Tedesco Group, under company president Albert S. Tedesco. In 1968, the company launched KDUZ-FM (now KARP-FM) as an FM sister station to KDUZ, duplicating all of its programming and extending the duopoly's reach past the AM's daytime-only restriction.
In February 2000, North American Broadcasting Company, Inc., reached an agreement to sell this station and sister station KKJR (107.1 FM) to Iowa City Broadcasting Company, Inc., for a reported sale price of $2 million. This sale ended the more than 50-year era of radio station ownership for the Tedesco brothers. The deal was approved by the FCC on March 22, 2000, and the transaction was consummated on March 31, 2000. At the time of the sale, KDUZ was playing an oldies music format.
At the annual Minnesota Associated Press Broadcasters Awards, KDUZ competes in Radio Class 1 against other radio stations with "one or no full-time newsroom employees".
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KDUZ
KDUZ (1260 AM) is a radio station licensed to serve Hutchinson, Minnesota, United States. The station, which began broadcasting in 1953, is currently owned by Iowa City Broadcasting Company, Inc.
KDUZ broadcasts a news/talk radio format to a ten-county area of southern Minnesota, including western Minneapolis. Local programming includes traffic reports, funeral announcements, local news updates, sports, weather, and a tradio program called "KDUZ Swap Shop". Network newscasts are taken from ABC News, the Minnesota News Network, and the Associated Press.
Weekend programming includes four different Lutheran church services on Sunday morning. Sunday afternoon programming includes Polka Parade with Lester Schuft, Polka-bration hosted by Chuck Thiel, and "It's Polka Time" with Craig Ebel. Syndicated financial shows on Saturday include The Bruce Williams Show and Bob Brinker's Moneytalk.
This station began its licensed broadcast operations on September 16, 1953, serving Hutchinson, Minnesota, with 1,000 watts of power, daytime-only on a frequency of 1260 kHz. The new station was assigned the call sign KDUZ by the Federal Communications Commission.
KDUZ was initially owned by a partnership of brothers Albert Tedesco, Victor Tedesco, and Nicholas Tedesco operating as the McLeod County Broadcasting Company. Ted Hanson served as the station's first program director with Howard Nordine as news director and Albert Tedesco as general manager. In 1955, Heinz Fruck took over the general manager role, a job he held into the 1980s.
In 1957, KDUZ was moved under the ownership of the North American Broadcasting Company, part of the Tedesco Group, under company president Albert S. Tedesco. In 1968, the company launched KDUZ-FM (now KARP-FM) as an FM sister station to KDUZ, duplicating all of its programming and extending the duopoly's reach past the AM's daytime-only restriction.
In February 2000, North American Broadcasting Company, Inc., reached an agreement to sell this station and sister station KKJR (107.1 FM) to Iowa City Broadcasting Company, Inc., for a reported sale price of $2 million. This sale ended the more than 50-year era of radio station ownership for the Tedesco brothers. The deal was approved by the FCC on March 22, 2000, and the transaction was consummated on March 31, 2000. At the time of the sale, KDUZ was playing an oldies music format.
At the annual Minnesota Associated Press Broadcasters Awards, KDUZ competes in Radio Class 1 against other radio stations with "one or no full-time newsroom employees".