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    WCCO's Mark Rosen: The bell-bottom years

    By David Brauer | Published Sun, Oct 18 2009 11:01 am

    According to his WCCO biography, Mark Rosen has worked for the station for 40(!) years. Not sure how many on-air guys have that kind of longevity at a single station, but it can't be a big number.

    Yes, that hair's all Rosey's

    As you can imagine, some viewers have watched Little Marky grow up on-air, but younger fans lack the historical memory.

    To the rescue: TCMediaNow, the newly spiffed-up pop culture treasure chest that — do I have to keep telling you this? — deserves a place in your bookmarks and RSS reader.

    Anyway, TCMN has just dumped a lot of Channel 4: 1974 into the archives, including this lovely feature of a bell-bottomed Rosen panting alongside legendary runner Garry Bjorklund. This was back in the day when local stations sent 22-ish reporters to Boulder, Colo. to do 3-minute segments just because they could.

    Rosey's "run-up" (which, in its way, presages "Perk at Play") comes at about the 2:30 mark.

    Also featured:

    ♦ Dave Moore, talking toy soldiers
    ♦ The 1974 Bethel College Polar Dip

    By the way, Bjorklund finished 13th in the '76 Olympic 10K.

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    David Brauer authors Braublog and is MinnPost's local media reporter. He's covered media and politics as a writer and editor since 1983 for City Pages, the Southwest/Downtown Journal, KFAN and KSTP-AM, Mpls.St.Paul, Minnesota Monthly, Law & Politics, the Business Journal, KARE11 and national outlets. Follow him on Twitter. Email: dbrauer [at] minnpost [dot] com. 

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