KDUZ
Encyclopedia
KDUZ is a radio station
licensed
to serve Hutchinson, Minnesota
, USA. The station, which began broadcasting in 1953, is currently owned by Iowa City Broadcasting Company, Inc.
/talk radio
format to a ten-county area of southern Minnesota, including western Minneapolis
. Local programming includes traffic reports, funeral announcements, local news
updates, sports, weather, and a tradio
program called "KDUZ Swap Shop". Network newscasts are taken from ABC News
, the Minnesota News Network, and the Associated Press
.
Weekend programming includes four different Lutheran church services on Sunday morning. Sunday afternoon programming includes "Polka Parade" with Lester Schuft, "Polka-bration" hosted by Chuck Thiel, and "It's Polka Time" with Craig Ebel. Syndicated financial shows on Saturday include The Bruce Williams Show and Bob Brinker
's Moneytalk.
s of power, daytime-only on a frequency of 1260 kHz. The new station was assigned the call sign
KDUZ by the Federal Communications Commission
.
KDUZ was initially owned by a partnership of brothers Albert Tedesco, Victor Tedesco, and Nicholas Tedesco operating as the McLeod County Broadcasting Company. Ted Hanson served as the station's first program director with Howard Nordine as news director
and Albert Tedesco as general manager
. In 1955, Heinz Fruck took over the general manager role, a job he held into the 1980s.
In 1957, KDUZ was moved under the ownership of the North American Broadcasting Company, part of the Tedesco Group, under company president Albert S. Tedesco. In 1968, the company launched KDUZ-FM (now KARP-FM
) as an FM sister station
to KDUZ, duplicating all of its programming and extending the duopoly
's reach past the AM's daytime-only restriction.
In February 2000, North American Broadcasting Company, Inc., reached an agreement to sell this station and sister station
KKJR (107.1 FM) to Iowa City Broadcasting Company, Inc., for a reported sale price of $2 million. This sale ended the more than 50-year era of radio station ownership for the Tedesco brothers. The deal was approved by the FCC on March 22, 2000, and the transaction was consummated on March 31, 2000. At the time of the sale, KDUZ was playing an oldies music format.
In the awards for 2004, KDUZ received an Honorable Mention in the Sports Reporting category for the "Tiger Football Coaches Show" hosted by Joel Niemeyer and in the Newscast category for the work of news director Mark Wodarczyk. The station's official website, kduz.com, was honored as Best Web Site among stations in Radio Class 1.
In the awards for 2007, KDUZ received an Honorable Mention in the category Best Feature for "2007 Grackle Days" by Mark Wodarczyk, in Sports Play-by-play for "Crown College Football" hosted by Joel Niemeyer, and Best Newscast for "KDUZ News" hosted by Mark Wodarczyk.
In the awards for 2008, KDUZ received top honors with a win in the Best Newscast category for "KDUZ News" hosted by Mark Wodarczyk.
honor from the National Association of Broadcasters
in the "Small Market Personality of the Year" category. In July 2007, John Mons of KDUZ was again announced as one of five nominees for that year's "Small Market Personality of the Year" award.
Hall of Fame in 2002. They began their careers in radio station ownership in March 1949 with the launch of WSHB (now KLBB) and ended with the sale of this station and its FM sister station
in 2000.
KDUZ news director Mark Wodarcyzk was elected to a one-year term as president of the Minnesota Associated Press Broadcasters in March 2008, following his one-year stint as vice president of the organization the previous year.
Radio station
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licensed
City of license
A city of license or community of license, in American and Canadian broadcasting, is the community that a radio station or television station is officially licensed to serve by that country's broadcast regulator....
to serve Hutchinson, Minnesota
Hutchinson, Minnesota
According to the 2000 United States Census , there were 13,080 people, 5,333 households, and 3,418 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,763.6 people per square mile . There were 5,667 housing units at an average density of 764.1 per square mile...
, USA. The station, which began broadcasting in 1953, is currently owned by Iowa City Broadcasting Company, Inc.
Programming
KDUZ broadcasts a newsNews Radio
News Radio can refer to:* NewsRadio, the NBC sitcom which aired from 1995–1999.* News radio, the all-news or news/talk radio format....
/talk radio
Talk radio
Talk radio is a radio format containing discussion about topical issues. Most shows are regularly hosted by a single individual, and often feature interviews with a number of different guests. Talk radio typically includes an element of listener participation, usually by broadcasting live...
format to a ten-county area of southern Minnesota, including western Minneapolis
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Minneapolis , nicknamed "City of Lakes" and the "Mill City," is the county seat of Hennepin County, the largest city in the U.S. state of Minnesota, and the 48th largest in the United States...
. Local programming includes traffic reports, funeral announcements, local news
Local news
In journalism, local news refers to news coverage of events in a local context which would not normally be of interest to those of other localities, or otherwise be of national or international scope.-Television:...
updates, sports, weather, and a tradio
Tradio
Tradio is the name given to a type of talk radio show format where listeners call in to buy or sell items. The concept of is analogous to classified ads in local newspapers....
program called "KDUZ Swap Shop". Network newscasts are taken from ABC News
ABC News
ABC News is the news gathering and broadcasting division of American broadcast television network ABC, a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company...
, the Minnesota News Network, and the Associated Press
Associated Press
The Associated Press is an American news agency. The AP is a cooperative owned by its contributing newspapers, radio and television stations in the United States, which both contribute stories to the AP and use material written by its staff journalists...
.
Weekend programming includes four different Lutheran church services on Sunday morning. Sunday afternoon programming includes "Polka Parade" with Lester Schuft, "Polka-bration" hosted by Chuck Thiel, and "It's Polka Time" with Craig Ebel. Syndicated financial shows on Saturday include The Bruce Williams Show and Bob Brinker
Bob Brinker
Bob Brinker is the host of the radio show Moneytalk, which has been on the air nationally since 1986. He previously had a show on local New York radio on WMCA. Prior to that Brinker hosted talkradio programs on WCAU and WWDB in Philadelphia...
's Moneytalk.
History
This station began its licensed broadcast operations on September 16, 1953, serving Hutchinson, Minnesota, with 1,000 wattWatt
The watt is a derived unit of power in the International System of Units , named after the Scottish engineer James Watt . The unit, defined as one joule per second, measures the rate of energy conversion.-Definition:...
s of power, daytime-only on a frequency of 1260 kHz. The new station was assigned the call sign
Call sign
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KDUZ by the Federal Communications Commission
Federal Communications Commission
The Federal Communications Commission is an independent agency of the United States government, created, Congressional statute , and with the majority of its commissioners appointed by the current President. The FCC works towards six goals in the areas of broadband, competition, the spectrum, the...
.
KDUZ was initially owned by a partnership of brothers Albert Tedesco, Victor Tedesco, and Nicholas Tedesco operating as the McLeod County Broadcasting Company. Ted Hanson served as the station's first program director with Howard Nordine as news director
News Director
A news director is an individual at a broadcast station or network or a newspaper who is in charge of the news department. In local news, the news director is typically in charge of the entire news staff, including journalists, news presenters, photographers, copy writers, television producers,...
and Albert Tedesco as general manager
General manager
General manager is a descriptive term for certain executives in a business operation. It is also a formal title held by some business executives, most commonly in the hospitality industry.-Generic usage:...
. In 1955, Heinz Fruck took over the general manager role, a job he held into the 1980s.
In 1957, KDUZ was moved under the ownership of the North American Broadcasting Company, part of the Tedesco Group, under company president Albert S. Tedesco. In 1968, the company launched KDUZ-FM (now KARP-FM
KARP-FM
KARP-FM is a radio station licensed to serve Dassel, Minnesota, USA. The station, which began broadcasting in 1968, is currently owned by Iowa City Broadcasting Company.-Programming:...
) as an FM sister station
Sister station
In broadcasting, sister stations or sister channels are radio and/or television stations operated by the same ownership....
to KDUZ, duplicating all of its programming and extending the duopoly
Duopoly (broadcasting)
In United States broadcast television and radio, duopoly is a term used to describe a single company which owns two or more stations in the same city or community....
's reach past the AM's daytime-only restriction.
In February 2000, North American Broadcasting Company, Inc., reached an agreement to sell this station and sister station
Sister station
In broadcasting, sister stations or sister channels are radio and/or television stations operated by the same ownership....
KKJR (107.1 FM) to Iowa City Broadcasting Company, Inc., for a reported sale price of $2 million. This sale ended the more than 50-year era of radio station ownership for the Tedesco brothers. The deal was approved by the FCC on March 22, 2000, and the transaction was consummated on March 31, 2000. At the time of the sale, KDUZ was playing an oldies music format.
Minnesota AP Broadcasters Awards
At the annual Minnesota Associated Press Broadcasters Awards, KDUZ competes in Radio Class 1 against other radio stations with "one or no full-time newsroom employees".In the awards for 2004, KDUZ received an Honorable Mention in the Sports Reporting category for the "Tiger Football Coaches Show" hosted by Joel Niemeyer and in the Newscast category for the work of news director Mark Wodarczyk. The station's official website, kduz.com, was honored as Best Web Site among stations in Radio Class 1.
In the awards for 2007, KDUZ received an Honorable Mention in the category Best Feature for "2007 Grackle Days" by Mark Wodarczyk, in Sports Play-by-play for "Crown College Football" hosted by Joel Niemeyer, and Best Newscast for "KDUZ News" hosted by Mark Wodarczyk.
In the awards for 2008, KDUZ received top honors with a win in the Best Newscast category for "KDUZ News" hosted by Mark Wodarczyk.
NAB Marconi Awards
In July 2004, John Monz of KDUZ was announced as one of five nominees for the NAB Marconi Radio AwardNAB Marconi Radio Awards
The Marconi Radio Awards are presented annually by the National Association of Broadcasters to the top radio stations and on-air personalities in the United States. The awards are named in honor of Guglielmo Marconi, the man generally credited as the "Father of Wireless Telegraphy." NAB member...
honor from the National Association of Broadcasters
National Association of Broadcasters
The National Association of Broadcasters is a trade association, workers union, and lobby group representing the interests of for-profit, over-the-air radio and television broadcasters in the United States...
in the "Small Market Personality of the Year" category. In July 2007, John Mons of KDUZ was again announced as one of five nominees for that year's "Small Market Personality of the Year" award.
Station alumni
KDUZ founders Albert Tedesco, Victor Tedesco, and Nicholas Tedesco were jointly inducted into the Pavek Museum of BroadcastingPavek Museum of Broadcasting
The Pavek Museum of Broadcasting is a museum in St. Louis Park, Minnesota which has one of the world's most significant collections of vintage radio and television equipment. It originated in the collection of Joe Pavek, who began squirreling away unique radios while he was an instructor at...
Hall of Fame in 2002. They began their careers in radio station ownership in March 1949 with the launch of WSHB (now KLBB) and ended with the sale of this station and its FM sister station
Sister station
In broadcasting, sister stations or sister channels are radio and/or television stations operated by the same ownership....
in 2000.
KDUZ news director Mark Wodarcyzk was elected to a one-year term as president of the Minnesota Associated Press Broadcasters in March 2008, following his one-year stint as vice president of the organization the previous year.