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WCCO (AM)

WCCO (830 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station located in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and owned by Audacy, Inc.[2] Its studios and offices are located on Second Avenue South in Downtown Minneapolis. WCCO features a news/talk format, with frequent newscasts and sports programming. Local hosts are heard most hours of the day and evening, including Chad Hartman, Vineeta Sawkar, Paul Douglas, Jordana Green and Adam Carter, Jason DeRusha, and Henry Lake.[3] Overnight, two syndicated shows are carried: Our American Stories with Lee Habeeb and America in the Morning with John Trout. World and national news is supplied by CBS News Radio. WCCO is the flagship radio station for the Minnesota Twins baseball team.

News/Talk 8•3•0 WCCO (frequency pronounced on-air as "eight-three-oh")

September 4, 1922 (1922-09-04)

WLAG (1922–1924)

Washburn Crosby Company (former owner of station)

FCC

A

50,000 watts unlimited

102.9 KMNB-HD2 (Minneapolis)

WCCO is a Class A clear-channel station. With 50,000 watts of power (the maximum permitted) and a nondirectional signal, WCCO reaches much of Minnesota and parts of Wisconsin and Iowa by day, along with a wide area of the Central United States and Central Canada at night.[4] The transmitter is located off Coon Rapids Boulevard at Lily Street NW in Coon Rapids.[5] It is also heard on the second HD Radio channel of co-owned KMNB (102.9 FM).

(2001). A History of Minneapolis. Minneapolis Public Library. Retrieved November 15, 2018.

Radio and Television.

City of Coon Rapids. Retrieved September 25, 2004.

History of WCCO Tower.

FCC History Cards for WCCO

Official website

in the FCC AM station database

WCCO

in Nielsen Audio's AM station database

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Historic airchecks of WCCO-AM and other Twin Cities radio stations dating back to 1924.

Radiotapes.com

Airchecks of Twin Cities stations from the 1960s and 1970s.

TwinCitiesRadioAirchecks.com

The First Forty - The Story of WCCO Radio 1924-1964