KARE Minneapolis

Tegna moves him from leading  WVEC Norfolk, Va., to overseeing its NBC affiliate in Minnesota.

WUCW, KSTP, WCCO, KMSP and KARE are now broadcasting with ATSC 3.0 technology.

Known for his work in producing and reporting the award-winning series The Land of 10,000 Stories on KARE Minneapolis, renowned video storyteller and teacher Boyd Huppert will be the 2023 recipient of the annual John F. Hogan Award from the Radio Television Digital News Association.

KARE, Tegna’s NBC affiliate in Minneapolis, increased its morning news viewers by 90% from Jan. to May 2023. Jim Thomas, KARE’s marketing director, says the reason for KARE 11 Sunrise growth is “not a new formula.”

KARE President-GM Bill Dallman announced that he is leaving Tegna’s Minneapolis NBC affiliate nearly two years to the day he arrived. In a memo obtained by TVSpy, Dallman told staff they’d be hearing from Tegna Senior Vice President Larry Delia about what’s next.

KARE Minneapolis grew its 10 p.m. newscast viewership 25% year-to-year in November. “It was pretty unusual to watch the 10 o’clock news double, triple and quadruple share from the lead in night after night,” says Bill Dallman, KARE’s GM.

The Minnesota State Fair has wound down, but the 2022 affair made quite a mark. The Great Minnesota Get-Together goes for 12 days, ending on Sept. 5, and a stunning 1.84 million people turned up for it — 540,000 more than 2021. The Twin Cities TV stations were there too, setting up their news operations at the fair, as attendees grab a corn dog and take a seat in the bleachers to watch. Above: WCCO’s Lisa Meadows does the weather from the Minnesota State Fair. (WCCO photo)

He will oversee marketing, brand and audience engagement at Tegna’s Minnesota NBC affiliate.

Stations winners were KXTV Sacramento, Calif.; KNXV Phoenix; KNTV San Francisco; and KARE Minneapolis.

He joins the Tegna NBC affiliate from KOMO Seattle, where he’s been news director since 2018 and succeeds the retiring John Remes.

Don’t underestimate the appeal to viewers of getting to know their favorite TV personalities in a more intimate way.

Tegna promotes Joanie Kraus to succeed Steve Chase as head of sales at its Minneapolis NBC affiliate.

New jobs posted to TVNewsCheck’s Media Job Center include openings in marketing, sales and news from Tegna’s stations in Austin and Minneapolis, Capitol Broadcasting’s WRAL in Raleigh, and Nexstar’s station in Jackson, Miss.