WTCN (now KARE) TV's

The local NBC affiliate KARE was for almost twenty years the market's independent station featuring reruns, movies, and first run syndicated programming. Then known as WTCN, the station provided a 9:30 News program before the traditoinal network affiliates began their 10pm coverage. Gil Amundson anchors this report from December 1975, Amundson was with WTCN from it's early days in the 1950s until the 1ate 1980s serving in a variety of roles including anchor. Winona Teacher's Strike, United Airlines Strike, University of Minnesota Strike,
Taxes, spending, the sale of the White Sox, and Hubert Humphrey are some of the stories covered in this full report
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[@greyeagle4388]

Love watching these old newscasts

[@ac9559]

I love full newscasts from the mid 70s thank you!

[@joejoewest]

That's Betty Buckley of Eight Is Enough in that U.S. Mail commercial at the 26:38 mark.

[@jasonrolloff]

Maury Povich interviewing HHH? No word on whether he's the father.

[@paulkennethburns148]

Check out Maury Povich at 6:35.

[@kurtkauffman4326]

Now KARE since 7/4/1986.

[@stevensuarez4843]

Why did the intro got cut?

[@kirkmorgan-austin8361]

Perhaps damage in the tape?

[@kurtkauffman4326]

Now an NBC Affiliate as of 3/5/1979.

[@kurtkauffman4326]

12/10/1975,to be exact.It was an Independent Station at the time.

[@katec7033]

Sylvia Porter - was she the Suze Orman of the 1970s?

[@vostock83]

11:09 Adolf Dubs was appointed Ambassador to Afghanistan in 1978, in February 1979 he was kidnapped and murdered by terrorists.

[@GoddardBC]

100% polyester leisure suits!