Secrets of the City

David Brauer points out a site called TCMedia Now (and points out that it’s got Mark Rosen in bell bottoms.) Also: Dave Moore’s final broadcast. So what is the site? From their home page: TCMedia Now is Twin Cities broadcasting media history and memories transmitted digitally now. News, commercials, local entertainment from WCCO, KSTP, KARE, KMSP and more can be relived instantly.

Chuck gives us an old video of WCCO’s Pat Miles looking into the Minneapolis hardcore punk rock scene; features footage of the long-lost local hardcore band Willful Neglect.

Stuff About Mpls publishes an awesome ode to WCCO weatherman Bud Kraehling: All I heard last night, and for most of the past week, was Thunderstorms are A-Comin! Nothing has happened. I’m not some big thunderstorm advocate, but you guys today (I’m talking to you Sven, and that skinny guy at Fox 9) seem to be wrong all the time now. If this continues, I swear to God I will use it in my power with this tumblr to pull Bud Kraehling out of retirement.

That is, if you can believe Mark Rosen: Barring some unforeseen major physical setback, Brett Favre will be at training camp in Mankato when they open up the end of July, a source has told WCCO’s Mark Rosen.

WCCO legend Steve Cannon has died at age 81. For those of you who may be unfamiliar with the local broadcasting great, the Pavek Museum’s Broadcasting Hall of Fame page for Cannon has a good biograpy of him, as well as audio samples of his work. With Cannon’s death, a whole cast of characters he created and gave voice to passes on as well; all will be missed.

Jason DeRusha now has a Webcam pointed at his desk all the time. I don’t know why.

WCCO runs a story on a local church that is helping men overcome an addiction to porn by having them dress up like soldiers. Nothing in the preceding sentence makes any sense to me — it’s like a random assemblage of nouns connected by verbs — but maybe you can make sense of it. Is it news? Or is it a long promotional piece for a right wing religious group’s puritanical agenda.

Via this tweet from Esme Murphy: “Totally, totally depressed – Jeanette Trompeter no longer at WCCO. Universally adored, she will so land on her feet. The recession sucks.”

I have to agree. The recession sucks.

Although it bears the ugliest neologism in recent memory (exclusing, perhaps, “tweeple”), the WCCO Bloginar has been a good source for local bloggers and other online professionals, and tomorrow they’re bringing in Kevin Gilbertson, who created TinyUrl, and WCCO’s Jeanette Trompeter.

The Star-Tribune is now partnering with WCCO to cover the weather. What does this mean? That Paul Douglas, who was providing weather content for the Strib, has once again lost a job thanks to WCCO.