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Listeners get on-air update on WCAL sale to MPR
St. Paul Pioneer Press ^ | 8/20/04 | Brian Lambert

Posted on 08/20/2004 12:23:45 PM PDT by Caleb1411

In the wake of the controversy over Minnesota Public Radio's proposed purchase of WCAL-FM in Northfield, MPR president Bill Kling took listener calls and e-mail Thursday on Gary Eichten's "Midday" program.

Kling's primary position remains that St. Olaf College, which owns WCAL, had decided to sell and that it was far better for MPR to acquire the station than to have it fall into the hands of some narrowly focused broadcaster with little or no local commitment. Kling specifically referred to a California religious group, the Educational Media Foundation, which says it offered St. Olaf more for WCAL than MPR did. . . .

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: media; mpr; npr

1 posted on 08/20/2004 12:23:45 PM PDT by Caleb1411
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To: Caleb1411
Didn't the lady from golden girls come from St Olaf?

Amazes me that a public radio person has the nerve to call anyone else narrow minded

2 posted on 08/20/2004 12:44:05 PM PDT by John O (God Save America (Please))
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To: Caleb1411

Kling, double dipper extraordinaire, has the nerve to criticize anybody ?


3 posted on 08/20/2004 1:01:49 PM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks
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