With Twins’ jump to KTWN expected, 1500 ESPN ‘committed’ to sports format
Despite low ratings after six years of Twins broadcasts, the Hubbard-owned station will stick with sports even if the team jumps to a Pohlad-owned FM.
Braublog
David Brauer authors Braublog and is MinnPost’s local media reporter. He has 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.
More radio ratings: what women (and people over 55) like
Analysis of the latest Arbitron numbers for women and the 55+ demo.
Radio ratings: MPR hits 3-year low, WCCO rises
MPR News and The Current continue year-long fall; 1500ESPN sinks amid bad Twins season, as pop stations dominate and WCCO surprises.
Wayzata Investment Partners gains Star Tribune control
Majority control gives Wayzata unilateral rights to appoint the board of directors (which must approve a sale or merger) and change company bylaws.
What do we know of the Star Tribune’s soon-to-be majority owner?
A secretive Lake Minnetonka private equity firm is widely expected to gain control of the newspaper.
Examining Wayzata Investment Partners’ business deals
The private equity firm comes by its secretive nature naturally.
Marriage amendment support soars, but how ‘likely’ is that?
Though it’s only one poll, on a tricky-to-poll topic, KSTP/SurveyUSA’s 52-37 percent majority for the marriage amendment was a startler.
Audio: Allen Quist’s ‘genetic predisposition’ interview from 1994
Brauer interviewed then-gubernatorial candidate Allen Quist in 1994 about gay rights, fetal rights and the “political arrangement” of a family.
City Pages lays off news reporter Gregory Pratt
A year ago, the local alt-weekly had four staff news reporters writing features; now it will have two plus a short-term “fellow.”
Fargo Forum blasted for rejecting same-sex marriage ads
The newspaper is under fire for rejecting a same-sex couple’s announcement of their legal marriage in New York.
MPR, national parent lay off 10 employees, citing ‘challenges’
MPR and its national programming arm, American Public Media, say they are “reorganizing around two key areas: content and development.”
Sloppy reporting on Minneapolis, St. Paul population growth
This week’s reports on the Met Council’s 2010-11 population growth estimates is somewhat unfair to the ‘burbs and, in a way, to the cities, too.
Do Minnesota journalists let politicians rewrite quotes?
A New York Times story documents political journalists letting pols and their spokespeople massaging quotes. Locals say that doesn’t happen here … yet.
No more half-‘Wits’: John Moe and MPR’s next national show
How an up-and-coming host uses Twitter as a “writer’s room,” collects the indie cream of the crop, and loosens up MPR’s starched collar.
Before ending dolphin exhibit, Minnesota Zoo kills Mpls.St.Paul ads
Did Steve Marsh single-handedly kill the zoo’s dolphin exhibit? No, but you can’t blame him for wondering.
Pioneer Press seeks buyouts in wake of new union contract
Pioneer Press Newspaper Guild co-chair Gayle Grundtner confirms the paper is offering buyouts across all departments.
Star Tribune CEO: ‘No hurry’ to sell Vikings stadium land; would stay downtown
Michael Klingensmith sent his troops a memo laying out scenarios to stay in downtown should the stadium swallow the newspaper’s properties.
Star Tribune defends rejection of priests’ anti-marriage-amendment letter
Strib editor charges MPR reporting was “gross mischaracterization”; MPR reporter says Strib “wildly inaccurate.”
End of Pioneer Press no-layoff era … but more celebrity coverage?
Proposed labor deal will give management — and new owners — greater power to control staff size.
Post-Eichten: Why MPR isn’t live-broadcasting Minnesota GOP and DFL conventions
An icon’s retirement, social networking’s rise, money and good old news judgment play a part.
