Editing KAAL (section)

==History==
As the [[Federal Communications Commission]] (FCC) neared the end of its multiple-year freeze on TV station awards, [[Austin, Minnesota|Austin]] radio station [[KAUS (AM)|KAUS]] announced in February 1952 that it had filed for a construction permit and acquired an antenna and tower, which were shipped from [[St. Paul, Minnesota|St. Paul]].<ref name="Aust520208">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-austin-daily-herald-kaus-may-go-on-c/136011196/|date=February 8, 1952|page=11|title=KAUS May Go on Channel 6 Within Year|newspaper=The Austin Daily Herald|location=Austin, Minnesota|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=December 5, 2023|archive-date=December 5, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231205214201/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-austin-daily-herald-kaus-may-go-on-c/136011196/|url-status=live}}</ref><!-- Fri --> KAUS's application remained pending when the South Central Minnesota Television Company, associated with stations [[KATE]] in [[Albert Lea, Minnesota|Albert Lea]] and [[KRFO (AM)|KOBK]] in [[Owatonna, Minnesota|Owatonna]], filed a competing application for channel 6 in January 1953.<ref name="Aust530105">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-austin-daily-herald-new-tv-company-w/136011424/|date=January 5, 1953|page=9|title=New TV Company Would Establish Main Studio Here|newspaper=The Austin Daily Herald|location=Austin, Minnesota|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=December 5, 2023|archive-date=December 5, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231205214154/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-austin-daily-herald-new-tv-company-w/136011424/|url-status=live}}</ref><!-- Mon --> Facing the prospect of a lengthy [[comparative hearing]] to determine who should be allocated the channel, KAUS and the South Central Minnesota Television Company combined their applications in March 1953, joining as the Minnesota-Iowa Television Company and winning the channel 6 permit.<ref name="Aust530326">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-austin-daily-herald-tv-here-rushed/136011521/|date=March 26, 1953|page=1|title=TV Here Rushed: FCC Grants Austin Permit on Channel 6|newspaper=The Austin Daily Herald|location=Austin, Minnesota|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=December 5, 2023|archive-date=December 5, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231205214144/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-austin-daily-herald-tv-here-rushed/136011521/|url-status=live}}</ref><!-- Thu --> The station took the call sign KMMT, the only proposed call sign that was available of a list submitted by the company to the FCC;<ref name="Aust530411">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-austin-daily-herald-designate-statio/136330984/|date=April 11, 1953|page=7|title=Designate Station Here KMMT-TV; Tests Set|newspaper=The Austin Daily Herald|location=Austin, Minnesota|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=December 5, 2023|archive-date=December 5, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231205214108/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-austin-daily-herald-designate-statio/136330984/|url-status=live}}</ref><!-- Sat --> the KAUS-TV call sign was not available because of the separate ownership.<ref name="Aust530724">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-austin-daily-herald-lions-briefed-on/136331050/|date=July 24, 1953|page=8|title=Lions Briefed on Operations of TV Station|newspaper=The Austin Daily Herald|location=Austin, Minnesota|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=December 5, 2023|archive-date=December 5, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231205214031/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-austin-daily-herald-lions-briefed-on/136331050/|url-status=live}}</ref><!-- Fri -->

From studios south of Austin on [[MN 105]], shared with KAUS radio, KMMT signed on the air on August 17, 1953.<ref name="Cour530818">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-courier-austin-tv-station-begins-its/136011685/|date=August 18, 1953|page=2|title=Austin TV Station Begins Its Programs|newspaper=The Courier|location=Waterloo, Iowa|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=December 5, 2023|archive-date=December 5, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231205214031/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-courier-austin-tv-station-begins-its/136011685/|url-status=live}}</ref><!-- Tue --> The station was originally an affiliate of [[CBS]],<ref>{{cite news|page=11|title=CBS-TV Adds 2|work=The Hollywood Reporter|date=August 4, 1953|id={{ProQuest|2338386749}} }}</ref> [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]],<ref>{{Cite news|date=July 29, 1953|page=28|work=Variety|title=ABC-TV's 135 Affils|id={{ProQuest|1032342307}} }}</ref> and the [[DuMont Television Network]].{{r|Aust530724}} It also broadcast local news and sports coverage; one early program, ''Circle 6 Ranch'', featured country music artist Johnny Western singing songs and presenting films.<ref name="Spen530910">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-spencer-daily-reporter-kmmt-newest-t/136011779/|date=September 10, 1953|page=TV 1|title=KMMT Newest Television Station Serving Area|newspaper=The Spencer Daily Reporter|location=Spencer, Iowa|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=December 5, 2023|archive-date=December 5, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231205214031/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-spencer-daily-reporter-kmmt-newest-t/136011779/|url-status=live}}</ref><!-- Thu --> The CBS and DuMont affiliations in the area moved to [[KGLO-TV]] in [[Mason City, Iowa]], when that station began in May 1954.<ref name="Aust540507">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-austin-daily-herald-mason-city-telev/136331422/|date=May 7, 1954|page=7|title=Mason City Television Station to Begin Programs May 15|newspaper=The Austin Daily Herald|location=Austin, Minnesota|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=December 5, 2023|archive-date=December 5, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231205214031/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-austin-daily-herald-mason-city-telev/136331422/|url-status=live}}</ref><!-- Fri --> The station also briefly affiliated with the [[NTA Film Network]], which began in 1956.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC/BC-1956/1956-09-17-BC.pdf|date=September 17, 1956|work=Broadcasting|pages=56, 58|id={{ProQuest|1285731096}}|title=104 Sign Up For NTA Film Network, Due to Begin Operations on Oct. 15|access-date=December 5, 2023|archive-date=July 18, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230718161056/https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC/BC-1956/1956-09-17-BC.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref>

Black Hawk Broadcasting of [[Waterloo, Iowa]], assumed management control of KAUS and KMMT on October 1, 1954;<ref name="Aust551004">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-austin-daily-herald-iowa-firm-renews/136331554/|date=October 4, 1955|page=1|title=Iowa Firm Renews Management Contract With KMMT, KAUS|newspaper=The Austin Daily Herald|location=Austin, Minnesota|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=December 5, 2023}}</ref><!-- Tue --> the deal included an option to buy the stations, which Black Hawk exercised in 1957.<ref name="Aust570212">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-austin-daily-herald-ok-awaited-on-tv/136331515/|date=February 12, 1957|page=1|title=OK Awaited on TV, Radio Station Sale|newspaper=The Austin Daily Herald|location=Austin, Minnesota|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=December 5, 2023}}</ref><!-- Tue --> During this time, the station began airing the long-running ''Family Hour'', a Christian program hosted by pastor Joe Matt; the 15-minute show remained on the air on channel 6 until 2001, ending its run as the longest-running local TV show in the United States.<ref name="Aust010427">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-austin-daily-herald-end-of-an-era/136331874/|date=April 27, 2001|pages=1, [https://www.newspapers.com/paper/the-austin-daily-herald/79/ 5]|first=Lee|last=Bonorden|title=End of an Era: 'The Family Hour' tapes last show after 46 years on KAAL|newspaper=The Austin Daily Herald|location=Austin, Minnesota|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=December 5, 2023}}</ref><!-- Fri --> In 1959, KMMT increased its power to the maximum of 100,000 watts; this expanded the station's coverage area as well as that of ABC, which had no nearby affiliates.<ref name="Aust590706">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-austin-daily-herald-kmmt-plans-power/136011951/|date=July 6, 1959|page=2|title=Kmmt Plans Power Boost to 100,000|newspaper=The Austin Daily Herald|location=Austin, Minnesota|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=December 5, 2023}}</ref><!-- Mon --><ref name="Aust590812">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-austin-daily-herald-kmmt-to-build-10/136011963/|date=August 12, 1959|page=1|title=Kmmt to Build 100,000-Watt TV Facilities|newspaper=The Austin Daily Herald|location=Austin, Minnesota|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=December 5, 2023|archive-date=December 5, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231205215223/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-austin-daily-herald-kmmt-to-build-10/136011963/|url-status=live}}</ref><!-- Wed -->

Its call letters became KAUS-TV (for Austin) on June 1, 1967, to match its radio sisters;<ref name="Aust670526">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-austin-daily-herald-kmmt-to-change-n/136012192/|date=May 26, 1967|page=9|title=KMMT to Change Name to KAUS TV on June 1|newspaper=The Austin Daily Herald|location=Austin, Minnesota|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=December 5, 2023|archive-date=December 5, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231205215147/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-austin-daily-herald-kmmt-to-change-n/136012192/|url-status=live}}</ref><!-- Fri --> at that time, the station built a new, {{convert|1000|ft|m|adj=on}} tower west of Austin for KMMT and to support a new FM station, [[KAUS-FM]] 99.9, which launched on May 30, 1968.<ref name="Aust670204">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-austin-daily-herald-kmmt-files-appli/136329920/|date=February 4, 1967|page=3|title=KMMT Files Application for New Transmitter Tower|newspaper=The Austin Daily Herald|location=Austin, Minnesota|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=December 5, 2023|archive-date=December 5, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231205215144/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-austin-daily-herald-kmmt-files-appli/136329920/|url-status=live}}</ref><!-- Sat --><ref name="Aust680523">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-austin-daily-herald-kaus-fm-station/136329129/|date=May 23, 1968|page=11|title=KAUS FM Station to Go on Air Soon|newspaper=The Austin Daily Herald|location=Austin, Minnesota|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=December 5, 2023|archive-date=December 5, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231205215224/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-austin-daily-herald-kaus-fm-station/136329129/|url-status=live}}</ref><!-- Thu --> The old tower was purchased by [[KTCA-TV]] and reassembled in the [[Rushford, Minnesota|Rushford]] area for use as part of a translator setup for that station.<ref name="Aust681026">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-austin-daily-herald-education-tv-cha/136012237/|date=October 26, 1968|page=6|title=Education TV Channel Buys Tower in Area|newspaper=The Austin Daily Herald|location=Austin, Minnesota|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=December 5, 2023|archive-date=December 5, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231205215111/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-austin-daily-herald-education-tv-cha/136012237/|url-status=live}}</ref><!-- Sat --> That same year, KAUS-TV discontinued its translators in La Crosse and Winona after the FCC approved a new La Crosse station, [[WXOW]], which would become an ABC affiliate;<ref name="Wino681017">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-winona-daily-news-to-our-la-crosse-a/136328904/|date=October 17, 1968|page=8|title=To Our La Crosse and Winona Viewers|newspaper=The Winona Daily News|location=Winona, Minnesota|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=December 5, 2023|archive-date=December 5, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231205215153/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-winona-daily-news-to-our-la-crosse-a/136328904/|url-status=live}}</ref><!-- Thu --> KMMT had been transmitting to La Crosse since January 1967.<ref name="LaCr670121">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-la-crosse-tribune-kmmt-austin-ch/136329812/|date=January 21, 1967|page=16|title=KMMT, Austin, Ch. 6, Starts New Service|newspaper=The La Crosse Tribune|location=La Crosse, Wisconsin|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=December 5, 2023|archive-date=December 5, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231205215231/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-la-crosse-tribune-kmmt-austin-ch/136329812/|url-status=live}}</ref><!-- Sat --> The Winona transmitter was sold to [[KROC-TV]] of [[Rochester, Minnesota]], and switched to provide its [[NBC]] programming.<ref name="Wino681107">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-winona-daily-news-channel-10-buys-ho/136330032/|date=November 7, 1968|page=18|title=Channel 10 Buys Homer Translator|newspaper=The Winona Daily News|location=Winona, Minnesota|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=December 5, 2023|archive-date=December 5, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231205215112/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-winona-daily-news-channel-10-buys-ho/136330032/|url-status=live}}</ref><!-- Thu -->

Black Hawk Broadcasting sold its Austin radio stations to Withers Broadcasting in 1974. As KAUS-TV and KAUS AM could not share a call sign under separate owners, an exchange was developed. KAUS-TV became KAAL-TV, adopting a call sign which for two years had been used on KAUS-FM.<ref name="Aust721021">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-austin-daily-herald-kaus-fm-to-chang/136329482/|date=October 21, 1972|page=2|title=KAUS FM to change call letters to KAAL|newspaper=The Austin Daily Herald|location=Austin, Minnesota|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=December 5, 2023}}</ref><!-- Sat --><ref name="Aust741120">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-austin-daily-herald-radio-televisio/136012300/|date=November 20, 1974|page=9|title=Radio, television letters changed|newspaper=The Austin Daily Herald|location=Austin, Minnesota|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=December 5, 2023|archive-date=December 5, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231205215744/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-austin-daily-herald-radio-televisio/136012300/|url-status=live}}</ref><!-- Wed --> Withers retained the radio studio facility, and KAAL moved the next year to a new site in Austin, a former [[Volkswagen]] dealership located on 10th Place NE.<ref name="Aust750329">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-austin-daily-herald-move-planned-for/136329639/|date=March 29, 1975|page=82|title=Move planned for May 1: New facility for KAAL-TV|newspaper=The Austin Daily Herald|location=Austin, Minnesota|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=December 5, 2023|archive-date=December 5, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231205215747/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-austin-daily-herald-move-planned-for/136329639/|url-status=live}}</ref><!-- Sat -->

The [[News-Press & Gazette Company]] of [[St. Joseph, Missouri]], acquired KAAL for $11.25&nbsp;million in 1980. The sale was a required divestiture to allow Black Hawk Broadcasting to merge into [[Aflac|American Family Corporation]]; to meet FCC ownership regulations, Black Hawk needed to spin off more than half of the seven broadcast properties it owned.<ref>{{cite news|page=24|title=In Brief|work=Broadcasting|date=October 1, 1979|id={{ProQuest|1014699265}} }}</ref><ref name="Aust801011">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-austin-daily-herald-business-notes/136330173/|date=October 11, 1980|page=2|title=Business notes|newspaper=The Austin Daily Herald|location=Austin, Minnesota|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=December 5, 2023|archive-date=December 5, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231205215758/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-austin-daily-herald-business-notes/136330173/|url-status=live}}</ref><!-- Sat --> During this time, KAAL originated the telecast of the [[Miss Minnesota]] pageant, seen statewide.<ref>{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071012163225/https://www.kaaltv.com/article/stories/S85667.shtml?cat=10172|url=http://kaaltv.com/article/stories/S85667.shtml?cat=10172|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 12, 2007|title=History|website=KAAL|access-date=December 5, 2023}}</ref> NPG owned the station for five years, selling for $13.5&nbsp;million to the Wooster Republican Printing Company of [[Wooster, Ohio]]—the Dix family—in 1985.<ref name="Aust851025">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-austin-daily-herald-kaal-sold-to-ohi/136012442/|date=October 25, 1985|page=2|title=KAAL sold to Ohio firm|newspaper=The Austin Daily Herald|location=Austin, Minnesota|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=December 5, 2023|archive-date=December 5, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231205215748/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-austin-daily-herald-kaal-sold-to-ohi/136012442/|url-status=live}}</ref><!-- Fri --> During Dix ownership, KAAL signed a secondary affiliation agreement with [[Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox]].<ref>{{Cite news|title=7 ABC affiliates sign with FBC for Rivers in latenight|first=Louis|last=Chunovic|work=The Hollywood Reporter|pages=3, 19|id={{ProQuest|2594619097}}|date=February 2, 1987}}</ref> It was also among the first ABC affiliates to agree to carry the ''[[NFL on Fox]]'' when football left CBS for Fox in 1994.<ref>{{cite news|title=Tough talk over Fox football|date=April 11, 1994|page=18|id={{ProQuest|1016953590}}|work=Broadcasting & Cable|first=Steve|last=McClellan}}</ref>

Eastern Broadcasting acquired KAAL and [[KTWO-TV]] in [[Casper, Wyoming]], from the Dix family in 1995; the owner of Eastern, Roger Neuhoff, came out of retirement to run the two stations.<ref name="Aust950214">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-austin-daily-herald-eastern-broadcas/136012459/|date=February 14, 1995|page=1|title=Eastern Broadcasting purchases KAAL|newspaper=The Austin Daily Herald|location=Austin, Minnesota|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=December 5, 2023|archive-date=December 5, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231205215750/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-austin-daily-herald-eastern-broadcas/136012459/|url-status=live}}</ref><!-- Tue --> In 1997, Eastern sold its four stations—KAAL, KTWO-TV and repeater KKTU, and [[KODE-TV]] in Joplin, Missouri—for $40 million to Atlanta-based Grapevine Communications;<ref name="Aust970321">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-austin-daily-herald-kaal-tv-to-be-so/136332132/|date=March 21, 1997|page=9|title=KAAL-TV to be sold|newspaper=The Austin Daily Herald|location=Austin, Minnesota|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=December 5, 2023|archive-date=December 5, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231205215727/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-austin-daily-herald-kaal-tv-to-be-so/136332132/|url-status=live}}</ref><!-- Fri --> two years later, Grapevine acquired GOCOM,<ref>{{Cite news|title=Grapevine, Gocom to forge $300Mil group|first=Anne|last=Torpey-Kemph|work=Mediaweek|date=May 17, 1999|page=39|id={{ProQuest|213658296}} }}</ref> though the GOCOM name and corporate offices in [[Charlotte, North Carolina]], were retained.<ref name="Aust000302">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-austin-daily-herald-channel-6-operat/136332655/|date=March 2, 2000|page=3|title=Channel 6 operates as GOCOM|newspaper=The Austin Daily Herald|location=Austin, Minnesota|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=December 5, 2023|archive-date=December 5, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231205215704/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-austin-daily-herald-channel-6-operat/136332655/|url-status=live}}</ref><!-- Thu -->

[[Hubbard Broadcasting]] agreed to purchase KAAL from GOCOM in October 2000; it was the last ABC affiliate in Minnesota that Hubbard did not already own.<ref name="Aust001004">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-austin-daily-herald-kaal-to-get-a-ne/136332469/|date=October 4, 2000|page=1, [https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-austin-daily-herald-kaal/136332522/ 16]|first=Chuck|last=Gysi|title=KAAL to get a new owner|newspaper=The Austin Daily Herald|location=Austin, Minnesota|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=December 5, 2023|archive-date=December 5, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231205215735/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-austin-daily-herald-kaal-to-get-a-ne/136332469/|url-status=live}}</ref><!-- Wed --> The station began digital broadcasting on February 20, 2002;<ref>{{cite book|chapter=KAAL-DT|title=Television Factbook|date=2006|page=A-1200}}</ref> the analog signal was turned off on June 12, 2009.<ref>{{cite news|title=KAAL, KIMT set for digital switch|first=Sarah|last=Doty|date=June 11, 2009|work=Rochester Post-Bulletin}}</ref>

Under Hubbard, KAAL has invested resources and shifted the bulk of its operation from Austin to Rochester in an effort to increase news ratings against market-leading [[KTTC]] and shed its reputation as a station solely focused on the Austin area. In 2008, the station opened a new Rochester office on Superior Drive NW, which included equipment allowing for a newscast to be presented from both cities.<ref>{{cite news|first=Jeff|last=Kiger|title=KAAL-TV tunes in Rochester|date=December 1, 2008|work=Rochester Post-Bulletin}}</ref> In 2015, it moved to a new and larger southwest Rochester facility, which became the main studio.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.austindailyherald.com/2014/06/kaal-plans-1m-studio-in-rochester/|work=Austin Daily Herald|title=KAAL plans $1M studio in Rochester|date=June 27, 2014|access-date=July 14, 2014|archive-date=October 13, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141013032552/http://www.austindailyherald.com/2014/06/kaal-plans-1m-studio-in-rochester|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|first=Jeff|last=Kiger|work=Rochester Post-Bulletin|url=http://www.postbulletin.com/business/kaal-tv-to-build-facility/article_da5da3a0-bd9c-5f8d-a268-8567a2917154.html|title=KAAL-TV to build facility|date=June 24, 2014|access-date=July 14, 2014|archive-date=December 5, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231205220301/https://www.postbulletin.com/business/kaal-tv-to-build-facility|url-status=live}}</ref>

===Notable former on-air staff===
*[[Butch Stearns]] – sports director, early 1990s<ref name="Aust931128">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-austin-daily-herald-kaal-undergoes-p/136335958/|date=November 28, 1993|page=2A|first=Scott|last=Sievers|title=KAAL undergoes personnel shakeup|newspaper=The Austin Daily Herald|location=Austin, Minnesota|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=December 5, 2023|archive-date=December 5, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231205220202/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-austin-daily-herald-kaal-undergoes-p/136335958/|url-status=live}}</ref><!-- Sun --><ref name="Bost960818">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-boston-globe-stearns-feels-right-at/136335985/|date=August 18, 1996|page=C4|first=Jim|last=Greenidge|title=Stearns feels right at home at Ch. 68|newspaper=The Boston Globe|location=Boston, Massachusetts|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=December 5, 2023|archive-date=December 5, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231205220142/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-boston-globe-stearns-feels-right-at/136335985/|url-status=live}}</ref><!-- Sun -->
*[[Bill Weir]] – reporter and weekend sports anchor, 1991–1992<ref name="Glob041107">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/globe-gazette-facts-on-weir/136336107/|date=November 7, 2004|page=A4|title=Facts on Weir|newspaper=Globe-Gazette|location=Mason City, Iowa|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=December 5, 2023|archive-date=December 5, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231205220214/https://www.newspapers.com/article/globe-gazette-facts-on-weir/136336107/|url-status=live}}</ref><!-- Sun --><ref name="Gree921113">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/green-bay-press-gazette-wluk-promotes-co/136336077/|date=November 13, 1992|page=C-3|first=Warren|last=Gerds|title=WLUK promotes Conner|newspaper=Green Bay Press-Gazette|location=Green Bay, Wisconsin|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=December 5, 2023|archive-date=December 5, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231205220226/https://www.newspapers.com/article/green-bay-press-gazette-wluk-promotes-co/136336077/|url-status=live}}</ref><!-- Fri -->