WCCO marks 75 years on air this year: "WCCO's history is Minnesota's history"

What started with a 10-second countdown has turned into 75 years of compelling storytelling, community journalism, cutting-edge investigative reporting, and delivering top headlines from Minnesota and around the world. Though, some things have changed since our premiere. When we first went on the air as WTCN-TV on July 1, 1949, we could still turn the lights off at night, and certainly wouldn't have had the news on at 5 o'clock in the morning. There were a mere 26 employees. Three years later, the station merged with WCCO Radio and changed...