KMSP Minneapolis

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

KMSP in Minneapolis revived and freshened a 20-year-old music image campaign done for its morning news that features the longest-running morning team in the market.

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)

KMSP Minneapolis, like most TV stations, has many openings it needs to fill. The station created a recruitment video unlike any other, a wild musical with an eye-catching song and dance number starring its employees.

Fox Television Stations promotes her from news director to oversee all aspects of the Fox-MNT Minneapolis duopoly.

TVNewsCheck‘s Michael Depp talks with Mim Davey, VP of news at Fox-owned KMSP in Minneapolis, about the station’s gavel-to-gavel coverage of the Derek Chauvin trial and how Black Lives Matter and the social justice movement have impacted newsroom priorities.

The trial of Derek Chauvin, the ex-cop charged in the death of George Floyd, will be televised live in its entirety by KMSP, the Fox O&O in Minneapolis, the first time in the history of Minnesota that cameras are being allowed to show the entire live proceedings of a criminal trial.

In a memo to the employees of the Minneapolis Fox O&O, Sheila Oliver addresses concerns over safety and security and reveals that the station has “arranged a news sharing ‘network’ with all four news stations to cover certain aspects of this story to avoid sending four crews to the same place. This is a plan without a lot of precedent and we are grateful that the market stations have responded to our request so positively.”

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

As the world adjusts to coronavirus-related changes at a rapid pace, many in the Twin Cities have grappled with this question: When your job is to talk about sports, what do you do when there are suddenly no games?