Brian Oake is a radio broadcast personality in the Minneapolis, Minnesota

Minnesota

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 radio market. Oake currently is a host on KTCZ-FM (97.1 FM

FM broadcasting

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), in the afternoons, and also hosts a special weekend program on that station called Freedom Rock.

Oake's credits include work on previous Twin Cities radio formats, Rev105 and Zone105. In 1998, City Pages listed Oake as the "Best FM Radio Personality" for his work on Zone 105.

Oake is a weekly guest each Tuesday on local sports-talk station AM 1130 KFAN to talk about music, as both KTCZ and KFAN are owned by Clear Channel Communications

Clear Channel Communications

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